The Tarot of Pips - Mystic d6.
Words Matter - “but the point is really that public services should be effective, not disruptive."
FOMO is not a strategy • Buttondown - Enterprise AI as more “personal efficiencies rather than organisational gains” // Also, you need your data cleaned and structured. And, applying AI at an organizational level is likely difficult.
Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025 - They’re probably waiting for that CSV file they requested weeks ago: “In a survey of over 6,000 U.S. consumers conducted in July and August 2024, 58% reported that the companies trying to sell them something don’t have a good understanding of their needs and preferences.” And: “What’s perplexing about this is that marketing has never had more access to data, or more technology tasked with building customer understanding and targeting messages. Right now, technology-driven customer engagement is at an inflection point."
Enterprises need AI middleware, not just models
AI Stone SoupOne of my co-workers, AI Adib, pointed me towards the AI stone soup, uh…analogy? Parable? Anyhow, the point of it is that the models at the core of all this AI stuff are cool, but it’s the layers and layers of applications and people on-top that make the difference. The app that you put on-top of the AI is what matters.
Indeed, the whole reason we’re talking about AI now is because of the app of ChatGPT, then Gemini, Midjourney, NotebookML’s podcasts, Claude, Perplexity, etc.
Broadcom Announces the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Platform 10 - Tanzu - New version of our new PaaS. If you write and run your own app in big companies, you should check it out. Kubernetes for mortals, and Cloud Foundry for the gourmands.
Dell’s stock falls on weak guidance, as more customers hold off for next-gen AI servers - Modeling the AI market tricky, they say: ‘Dell Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke (pictured) told analysts on a conference call that growth of artificial intelligence server sales is likely to swing quite wildly from quarter to quarter due to the pace of innovation in that industry. “This business will not be linear, especially as customers navigate the underlying silicon roadmap that is changing,” he said.'
Hey, wait – is employee performance really Gaussian distributed?? - Where there’s a bell curve, beware bullshit. Also, we all know this stack ranking practice is not good, right?
Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping. - These always seemed like as nerd’s idea of how strategy is done. Which is fine! Are there “big name” use cases after all these years, especially where the method is applied over three or five years?
Forget All-Cloud or All-On-Prem: Embrace Hybrid for Agility and Cost Savings - The New Stack - Why private cloud is still, and will continue to be a big deal.