Tag: research
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🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech
Original: Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry by researchers at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Communications of the ACM. Summarized by Claude AI on July 2, 2026. The Findings Men are far more committed to staying. 44.9% of men selected “no intentions to leave” vs.…
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Cognitive Surrender, Supply Chain Rats, and Cthulhu at Mount Fuji – Related to your interests, Saturday
Also: invisible AI bottlenecks, Amex coding stats, Copilot for entertainment only, and why not both Earth from Orion after translunar injection, April 2, 2026. Two auroras and zodiacal light visible as Earth eclipses the Sun. NASA/Reid Wiseman, Artemis II Related to your interests Invisible Work in the Age of AI: The New Bottleneck in Architecture…
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Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI
Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. Making sense of their reports takes a lot of time, and multi-year trends are hard to pick out. Writing into a chat window that was updated with not only the research reports, but also analyst opinions – maybe notes…
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Highlights from that OpenAI “The state of enterprise AI report”
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day). That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more…
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🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+
People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits. Summarized by AI. Source…
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Gemini could lap ChatGPT in app features
This would be great. I implicitly trust Google because my stuff is there. While I love using ChatGPT and Gemini, I have less trust in their security (they just don’t have the track record yet) and even less on their morals and law-following (they obviously blatantly violated copyright for their models). // If things keep…
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🤖 Tyler Cowen’s characteristic phrases and intellectual frameworks
I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I asked: Tyler Cowen has many maxims, principles, and aphorisms. One is “Context is that which is scarce” another is “all food is ethnic food” (from his ethnic food website). Sometimes his blog posts bring with “those new service sector…
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🤖 Sunlight’s Surprising Upside: Why a Little UV Might Be Healthier Than Hiding Indoors
Recent research suggests that moderate sun exposure may confer wide-ranging health benefits beyond vitamin D production, potentially offsetting its well-known risks. While excessive UV can lead to skin cancer, new studies indicate that careful sun-seeking could lower mortality rates, improve cardiovascular health, and even modulate immunity. This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: The…
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Broadcom’s answer to VMware pricing outrage: You’re using it wrong – IDC’s EMEA senior research director, Andrew Buss: “All our surveys in EMEA in the past five years have shown a majority preference to run workloads in private IT foremost, with around a third of organizations being quite balanced between making use of both public…
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to cloud-based documents and third-party research tools – The way to compete with AI is with the apps, the functionality they have, the outcomes they let you get – the stuff you can do with them.
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Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong – Latest in “why do IT projects fail?” Research.
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IDC Publishes New, Actionable AI Research at Annual ‘Directions’ Event – “Currently, 51% of businesses are taking an opportunistic approach to AI, but there’s a significant trend toward more structured and strategic adoption. The research highlights how organizations are increasingly viewing AI as a fundamental transformation of business, operating, and organizational models. Governance, knowledge, and…
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Is Your Organizational Transformation Veering Off Course? hbr.org/2024/08/i… “The research highlights that shifts in emotional energy, such as increased frustration or anxiety, can signal that a transformation is off track. Addressing these emotional shifts can help prevent derailment.”
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Cloud Native App Platforms: New Research Shows Struggles and Hope – Building your own (Kubernetes) platform takes a long time: “61% of respondents indicated that at least one of their platforms is custom-built, the journey from concept to implementation is far from smooth. Alarmingly, 41% of these organizations took more than a year to develop…
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Survey reveals generative AI employee fear – Lots of hopes and dream, not enough projects and experiments: “IBM’s research found that less than half of organisations are focused on GenAI pilots – and another 24% are doing nothing at all. But almost half (49%) of the CEOs polled expect to use GenAI to drive growth…
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Internet use statistically associated with higher wellbeing, finds new global Oxford study – “The study analysed data from two million individuals aged 15 to 99 in 168 countries, including Latin America, Asia, and Africa and found internet access and use was consistently associated with positive wellbeing.” // At this point, who knows? Like everything else…
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Managing multi-cloud Kuberntes
Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about managing Kubernetes, especially if you’re a large organization that has lots of everything. You know: MULTI-CLOUD, Y’ALL! He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks…
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🗂 Link: A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently
Published in the Computers in Human Behaviour academic journal, the study enumerates no fewer than 72 actions that people apparently take while managing their work emails. We can count five – delete, mark as spam, forward, reply and read but ignore – and can only imagine that reaching the figure of 72 must include crying…
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Link: Research: For Better Brainstorming, Tell an Embarrassing Story
we found that the “embarrassment” teams generated 26% more ideas spanning 15% more use categories than their counterparts. Candor led to greater creativity. Thus, we propose a new rule for brainstorming sessions: Tell a self-deprecating story before you start. As uncomfortable as this may seem, especially among colleagues you would typically want to impress, the…
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🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer
> We found that only six of the 45 terror groups – that’s 13.3 percent – accomplished their broader goals; the others did not… Meanwhile, among the 45 groups that chose not to use terrorism, 26 – or 57.8 percent – achieved their objectives, while 19 did not. theconversation.com/does-terr…
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