Tag: wastebook

  • Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines

    Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines

    Private PaaS Along with our summary of Explore EU last week, around the start of this I go over my thinking about private PaaS, VMware, and Tanzu. At least that’s what I remember doing. Wastebook “THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER—BUT THEY’RE IMPROVING” Systemantics. The Systems Bible, John Gall. And: “we are interested, not in the…

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  • Employee Mode

    Employee Mode

    You are a company of one: Click here to watch the video. If you liked that, there’s more of my take on “employee mode” in the ten part video series I did for O’Reilly: “How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships.” How about that…

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  • My favorite PaaS

    My favorite PaaS

    This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :) For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos. Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief. Wastebook “the ontological…

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  • Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership

    Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership

    Using Surveys for Marketing Wastebook They dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture. This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff. “I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to…

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  • Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web

    Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web

    Hello there! Wastebook “I spent my early childhood in a 15-minute city. It was called the 1950s.” Here. “a cybercriminal selling data from these breaches told its researchers that they had been able to compromise a Snowflake employee’s ServiceNow account using credentials stolen via infostealer malware, bypassing SSO provider OKTA.” // Security in 2024. What…

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  • “Be an active bystander.”

    “Be an active bystander.”

    Just wastebook and links this episode. Wastebook If you’re a writing type suffering from imposter’s syndrome, spend some time as an editor. You’ll soon discover that writing is incredibly hard, so if you can pull it off, you’re the real deal. “Preview The Magnitude Of Our 2024 Agenda” – subject line of a Forrester email.…

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  • Microwaving Fish & Rice Cookers

    Microwaving Fish & Rice Cookers

    Just links and waste book today. Wastebook “If it ain’t broke, don’t cloud it,” me, 2011. Follow and mute. “Dell’s employees, whom I believe are mostly adults and not small children, will be given colour-coded ratings to shame those who don’t come into the office enough.” Justin Warren’s newsletter, “The Crux #93.” “Largest companies most…

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  • Not one of my most famous newsletters

    Not one of my most famous newsletters

    Today it’s just a links and wastebook clean out. Two Recent Garbage Chairs on Amsterdam I’ve found a few Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam recently. Truth be told, I stopped looking. When I moved here, the locals were bemused about all my photos “I never really thought about that,” they’d say, “but; yeah, there are a…

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  • I only give one talk a year, but I give it many times

    I only give one talk a year, but I give it many times

    Relative to your interests Can we reenergize the transactional workforce? – Hmm. Cloud without Kubernetes – Start by hiding Kubernetes, only touch it as needed. There’s enough work to do already. Wastebook “Unhappiness with air travel took a new turn when maggots rained down on passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan,…

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  • The easiest presentation format that works

    Why did Kubernetes Win the Kontainer Wars?* John Willis finally explains why the underpowered, not fully ready, overly complex container orchestrator from Google became the cloud native juggxrnaught. Also, there’s much whole lot more DevOps and Demming talk in the interview I did with him last week. *Also, sure: I know that the victors never…

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  • Tamale House

    Tamale House

    Not much today, just cleaning up the queue. Wastebook “Look, it’s a Cybertruck!” – yelled out by a Bay Area co-worker I was talking with on the phone as they drove into work. “In one way this is ‘just’ the evolution of the comment section.” Here. If you’re saying something you believe to be true,…

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  • Re-thinking tech debt, an interview with Laura Tacho

    The discussion below was fun: we starting talking about alignment ambiguity in Dungeons and Dragons, then went to the role of tech debt in large organizations, and threw in some “this meeting could have been an email” like thinking at the end. Check it out! Wastebook I’m super busy right now. I’ve got a lot…

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  • Type-writers are killing cursive, AMIRIGHT?

    There’s a lot going at work now, employee wise. If you’re using a VMware email address to subscribe to this (there’s several handfuls of people who are), I’d suggest switching it over to a personal email address. BEST OF LUCK TO US ALL. Meanwhile: Wastebook “Never ask me how I paid” is my version of…

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  • We should probably just fix networking instead of putting on another layer of paint

    We should probably just fix networking instead of putting on another layer of paint

    Here’s the final installment of my talks with Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talk about things that slow developers and other staff down. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to…

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  • Managing multi-cloud Kuberntes

    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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  • Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’ – Project versus product for happiness. Also, living life by waste book/commonplace book – something I certainly can appreciate. (Bit it a ringer it being Helen Garner, but don’t let that stop you.)

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  • If you’re so smart, why are we all still so dumb?

    If you’re so smart, why are we all still so dumb?

    We’re back from a three day weekend in London for our anniversary. I tried very hard to eliminate all “productivity,” so I have very little to say today. I did want to ADVERTISE for a thing I have tomorrow. So I’ve gathered up some waste book for you today. Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after…

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  • You can’t avoid lock-in

    I have a new video, opining on multi-cloud and how Kubernetes might could help with fears of lock-in (a concept that I think is kind…basic?), check it out below: Relevant to your interests The Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms – Five benefits of monitoring and managing internal developer platforms are noted: improved system…

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  • Picture wastebook 05

    Picture wastebook 05

    Logoff I missed last Saturday. So I’ve set this one to just auto-send on Saturday morning. I’ll add stuff during the week. We’ll see how that works!

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