Some Simple Economics of the Google Antitrust Case - The case that people are free to change their browser defaults.
The customer is often wrong - Reminder shout revealed preferences.
Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron - Why you do tops-down management and lots of meetings in larger, more mature companies.
Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening - Post Sun Tzu strategy metaphor.
Modern Work Fucking Sucks. - Attack of the SaaS productivity apps. // Maybe it’d be better to just use one suite of tools: Office 364 or Google Apps, i.e., the #defaultslifestyle. // It’s easy to fall into the habit of planning and showing progress in work instead of just doing the work.
Where do modernized apps go to live?
Where are people putting their modernized apps? Here’s a recent survey chart on that topic from 451:
Recent ContentThree things for you today:
The private cloud equilibrium - my most recent attempt to figure out how much private cloud is out there.
Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser - this week’s Software Defined Interviews: As if platform engineering and expat'ing in the UK weren't enough, Whintney and Coté discuss the forgotten technology of business cards wih Abby Bangser.
DORA Report 2024 – A Look at Throughput and Stability - Developer productivity is fine, but: “We thought the bottleneck was developers writing code, but in fact the bottleneck is putting good code into production.” // Maybe the current trend in DevOps/platform engineering/cloud native to to stop caring about developer productivity, rather, re-silo and let them care about it, and instead focus on operations productivity. Definitely that re-eval of how silo-busting has been going.
The Rise of AI Agent Infrastructure - We’re all figuring out what “agent” means in AI land. It’ll probably end up meaning nothing if us marketing people do our jobs of claiming that we all do it.
AI is reshaping call center work in the Philippines - Rest of World - ‘“AI is not to replace people but to help people become more productive,” she said. “If you needed 10 team members before, maybe now you only need five."’ // Hmm, those two statements don’t seem to go together.
China tech tariffs: Which countries will be affected - Round up of how current tariffs are going, and what they are.