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From my Cloud Foundry Day EU talk. See the slides if you want to zoom in and click on the citations. My friends at Rabobank corrected a figure: they support 300 developer teams, not just developers.

SoraI have a Sora account. The take is that people like it because it lets them make videos of themselves and their friends seems right. It’s also scary good at cheese-marketing and ads, even for the thrilling world of PaaS (see my post in LinkedIn or Bluesky, then come back here for more examples). You can also get it to make videos that’d be perfect for generic ads. You can imagine this one being of any number of things like flights, hotels, eSIM cards for travelers:1

‘When we say, “I love my job,” we really mean, “My job pisses me off, but in an enchanting way."’ Thank you for being annoying

“I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about how you make your users awesome, not how you’re awesome.” 🔗 Make the user awesome

“As a writer I value the concept of boredom because it’s very useful in having ideas and letting your brain explore. Now I have to actively choose when to be bored.” Chose boredom. “‘Well,’ Birkin says, in heavily accented French, ‘did you learn anything about me from seeing ing bag?’ Then a grin: ‘Even if we Birkin reveal everything, we don’t show much.'” Found by Russell. “I realized that I really didn’t want to read another experimental European novel with a tormented narrator reflecting on language, daddy issues, the trauma of WWII, ‘the real,’ presence and absence in the archives, and lists of the dead.

“If these tools are so great, where is the explosion of AI created stuff in the world?” // Followed by a yes-and style rebuttal. 🔗 Mike Judge asks good questions about AI shovelware

The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. // “One of the biggest contributors to rust out is spending your energy in places that don’t align with your unique talents and skills. In my own experience, and in working with my clients, a simple way to uncover your unique talents is to notice your energy.

🔗 Study Reveals America’s Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise

“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book

“for every $1 spent on model development, firms should expect to have to spend $3 on change management, which means user training and performance monitoring.” // How it started “AI-enabling the entire customer service stack of a typical business could lead to a 60 to 80 percent price increase, McKinsey says.” How it’s going: “while quoting an HR executive at a Fortune 100 company griping: ‘All of these copilots are supposed to make work more efficient with fewer people, but my business leaders are also saying they can’t reduce head count yet.