“Moody’s Analytics recently estimated that the top 10 percent of households were responsible for nearly half of all spending.” K-shaped. AI is used a lot for making software. Not sure about the survey demographics and methodology. Deciding on Obama v. McCain in 2008. Keep track of things you’ve done each day so you realize you’re doing a good job. It will make you happier. Eventually, you just revert to the command line.
To understand a man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty, Napoleon is supposed to have said. The quotation is probably apocryphal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. For me, it is this world by the river that counts. When I sit down to write a novel, the natural time for it to take place in is the Eighties, as though that era embodied the world’s true form, its essence, and everything that came later were a kind of deviation. Even though I google various topics as I’m writing, the characters in the novel don’t google anything; it never occurs to them. The same is true when I dream. Cell phones and the internet never appear in my dreams, which are populated mostly by the people I was surrounded by forty years ago.
“The Reenchanted World," Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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This week, Brian Gracely joins @bwhichard to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars?www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/552
Another writer said he “was a confident, gray-eyed, wild-bearded, chain-smoking philosopher-poet who lived on whiskey and ice cream and never went to bed before 4 a.m.”
From Rebels of Reason
Write your AI stuff in the languages you know and that are running your organization
From my recent article on The New Stack:
The choice of where and how to start your AI journey is a business decision, not a technology one. By grounding your AI efforts in the operational muscle you’ve already built with Java and Spring, you minimize friction and risk. Everyone just keeps doing what they’re doing, but with a new tool. This established operational and development life is the hard-won experience, paid for in decades of maintenance and gut-wrenching production failures, that gives you the platform to continuously absorb new capabilities like Spring AI and MCP.
Related to your interests, Thursday
Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art - “It’s art that blends street art, Pop art, sneakerhead culture, merch-drop dynamics, and memes into a mix that is the opposite of reverential.” Nobody knows how large software products work - “It’s easier to write software than to explain it” A Year Of Vibes - Pondering on a year of coding full-blown AI style.
The Octopus Organization is a great collection of organization anti-patterns. This week, one of the co-authors, Jana Werner talks with Whitney and Coté about those patterns and her own experiences. They go over topics like reading habits, the role of business books, decision making, ownership, curiosity in organizations. practical steps to avoid common corporate anti-patterns, the importance of clear communication and leadership principles, and rubber pigs.
Check out the rest in our interview with Jana Werner. It was a fun discussion.
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While Finland and Sweden consistently rank at the top of the happiness league table, for example, both countries have also persistently experienced some of the highest suicide rates in the European Union, ranking in the top five EU countries according to one recent statistic.
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