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  • What does “outcome oriented” really mean?

    The Business Bullshit Dictionary I’m recording a few tiny videos defining some business-world jargon. “Input,” “outcome oriented,” “politics,” and, here, “bureaucracy.” Once you’ve been in the corporate world for a few years, you stop noticing these words and a few years later, you stop taking them seriously, or at least, in a nuanced way. They’re…

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  • New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?

    New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?

    Jennifer Riggins and The New Stack crew have a good booklet out on Platform Engineering. I read over it and talked with Jennifer a couple times. I should have recorded those calls to munge into some articles, but, whatever. You should check it out, I think it’s a good go at trying to nail down…

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  • Less Upcoming Than Usual

    Less Upcoming Than Usual

    A bonus Sunday episode! Waking up this morning, my first thought was how different my job is now with less travel. Like many tech companies, we have smaller budgets for travel. The means I can only take three or so trips a quarter unless I get someone else to pay for it, or for customer/sales…

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  • 2023-07-07 day note

    Put out a newsletter today. The musings on using ChatGPT for school obscure the real treat: me goofing around at the expense of DevOps and Platform engineering. I also finished up a mostly polished draft of a webinar I’m giving next week. Working with Darran has been great. He knows his stuff and helps me…

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  • 2023-06-09 day note

    A lot of post-production video work today. Doing all the work after you film and then fully edit a video takes a long time. It’s pretty much the same time for any length of video. The most difficult part if promoting it across the four or five channels I have. I don’t even spend time…

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  • Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views – “At the start of the year, Twitter on average drove less than 3% of all views across Substack. Today, it accounts for less than 2%.” For my newsletter, Twitter is fine, it’s third place in views (2,923 since Dec 8th, 2022) after the actual newsletters (32,551), and the…

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  • Old picture of man on a bike, from History of a bicycle, Gordinne, 1894 - 1959 

    Man in yellow suit on a bike, “helpful” advice, a cassette tape, and links

    First, this delightful picture: . It’s a mid-week newsletter. Why? It feels like something helpful to do, sort of therapeutic. I’ve left a few self-promotion, things I’ve made things off the past two newsletters. Lucky you they’re below! As a reminder, we’ve started the Tanzu Talk podcast back up, so you should subscribe to it…

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  • Re-commit to our relationship

    Well, not that dramatic… If you enjoy this newsletter, you know I struggle to keep up with it. It’s annoying for me, and perhaps for you. So, I’ll try something new, being less perfect. You can subscribe to get notifications of posts I make to my blog, the more fragmentary version of this newsletter. I…

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  • The newsletter: Coté’s Wunderkammer

    For those RSS-nerds of you out there consuming this, I’d like to point out that most of my “blogging” is done in my newsletter now. I send it out once or twice a week as a collection of links, fragments of stuff I’ve written (usually some original, newsletter only content thereof), and otherwise wunderkammer like…

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