Detroit, 2015.Wastebook“I’m still in my pajamas — haven’t changed since Tuesday night. I’m also drinking a fair amount…” ProfG.
“My conspiracy theory has a much higher budget.” Lordess.
“To create this post, I used a cascade of AIs.” Tomasz Tunguz.
“improvident” is an adjective meaning lacking foresight or failing to plan ahead, often resulting in wasteful or reckless behavior without considering future consequences. Culturally, the term is often used to critique individuals or societies that prioritize immediate gratification over long-term well-being.
- Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities - Some useful MacOS command line utils - not the usual Linux ones.
- Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecast For 2024 Again - IT Jungle - “Gartner thinks that spending on servers, storage, and networking for the datacenters of the world will rise by 34.7 percent in 2024 to just a hair over $318 billion. We have not seen this kind of growth since the recovery after the crash in IT spending during the Great Recession, and this time around it is different because there is no crash ahead of such growth. Rather, this is a transformation in IT systems that is probably more impactful than the Dot Com boom."
Mastering Corporate Asshat Improv
Improvised Corporate AssholeI've been listening to the book Impro by Keith Johnstone. Somewhere I read that it's on Palantir's new employee reading list, which made me interested. The section on status is both weird and intriguing. It's very prescriptive - there's no "it depends." People love this book: it has 4.3 stars on Goodreads. That enthusiasm and its place on at least one corporate reading list makes the book's chapter on "
- Top 5 Intelligent App Delivery Challenges and How Executives Can Solve Them - AI middleware.
- Gartner Says CIOs Need to Overcome Four Emerging Challenges to Deliver Value With AI - Make sure you cap AI spend in the next few years of messing around with enterprise AI. // Also, new tech burger-stack: “As CIO, your job is to design a tech sandwich that can handle the messiness of AI”
- Gartner Survey Reveals Only 48% of Digital Initiatives Are Successful - “On average, only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed business outcome targets, according to Gartner, Inc.’s annual global survey of more than 3,100 CIOs and technology executives, and more than 1,100 executive leaders outside of IT (CxOs)."
- Gartner Forecasts IT Spending in Europe to Grow 8.7% in 2025 - “Europe has seen a remarkable 46% increase in server spending by technology providers in 2024. In 2025, technology companies will continue building out the infrastructure needed for training GenAI models today and inferencing them in the future."
Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024
Code Neo (Pearl Sijmons), Joana Schneider, 2024.Relative to your interestsPriorities CIOs Must Address in 2025, Insights from the 2025 Gartner CIO Survey - “only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed their business outcome targets. This statistic highlights a significant challenge for organizations aiming to achieve their digital transformation goals.” // It could also highlight that the expectations were very unrealistic. I’d bet on that more than anything else. // Also, here’s some Gartner charts on the topic.
- Why Jamie Dimon is Sam Altman’s biggest competitor - 🤖 says: JPMorgan Chase, led by Jamie Dimon, is presented as a major competitor to OpenAI due to its vast proprietary data (150 petabytes vs. GPT-4’s 0.5 petabytes).