Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, snowpocalypse edition
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Austin edition.
Recently, in America
Enassholeification.
Consumer tech focuses on the process, enterprise tech on the outcome.
Shift Run Stop is back! This was one of the most influential podcasts for me. It showed an attitude about podcasting that was new and fun. That attitude was fun, curious, dorky, and joyous. You could do whatever you wanted, whatever you enjoyed.
Labor vs. AI
Automation creates a temporary rent for whoever controls the remaining bottleneck. Whether workers keep that rent is a power question, not a technology question.
ChatGPT summary of this paper on automation and wages.
And I would add:
The firm is seeking to get rid of human workers as much as possible. So once that high value, bottleneck job is automated, labor is fucked.
Containers running in VMs 4ever
“IDC forecasts that nearly 85% of all containers will continue running inside VMs through 2028 because enterprises trust the virtualization layer for governance, security, and operational control.”
🔗 Why a Single Platform for VMs and Containers Is the Future of Modern IT
Keep the thesis in mind. ‘Writers must […] constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often they don’t know. Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?’