How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle - “if you’re not able to carve out even 20 minutes for yourself, then something needs to change in your life.” // Tools that find the priorities are hard: “We hear a lot about how to optimize for productivity, but what we don’t have is the emotional awareness and emotional intelligence around why we pursue the things we pursue."
Why are corporations cutting managers? - “a large share of a company’s work force does not produce widgets. Instead, they produce organizational capital.” // Also, what if employee (individual contributor) productivity meant less managers?
Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law - “The literary highlights from 1929 include The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf."
I used to be from here
Things expats notice when they’re back in AmericaThe night of arrival, at Stiles Switch.We go back to Texas each year for Christmas. You see things differently when you’ve been away for a long time. Here’s some from this year:
Waymo everywhere, in Austin.
So much yoghurt.
Grown ass adults going to the store in full in pajamas. Still.
There’s a gadget for everything.
“Put a bow on it.”
UGGs, boots and:
Cognitive load is what matters - Legacy software can mean: when changing the code requires too much cognitive load.
Integrating AI Agents into Companies - Changing how organizations work to fit what AI can do. Also, you need context about the organization: as always access to data will be a bottleneck, which is to say, governance and meetings.
OpenAI finally launches screen and live video observation for paying ChatGPT users - CISO’s must be freaking the fuck out about this.
How platform engineering is different than DevOps
How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor FarcicSoftware Defined Interviews #89
This is a good one, Viktor is great, almost an iconoclast on DevOps and platform engineering:
In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, about platform engineering, the evolution of DevOps, project managing a content creation engine of one, and the virtues of imperfection. Also, the strategic avoidance of asking for directions, or, really, talking with people in general.
Hybrid cloud solutions drive enterprise IT innovation - “At VMware by Broadcom, the strategy is very simple. We are a private cloud company…"
Note from the Editor-in-Chief - TechTarget acquires the executive focused news/advertorial outfit CIOstuff.