Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time.
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From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩︎
“snorkeling in the shit-infused shallow end of the Dunning-Kruger pool” But, please, tell us what you really think
If you are only allowed to learn from the internet at age 16, you are probably not ready for marvelous achievements at age 18 or perhaps not even at 20. The country may become more mediocre.
“No. Make it shorter. Tea please.” The PowerPoint Guru.
Highlights from that OpenAI "The state of enterprise AI report"
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day).
That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more you use ChatGPT, the more productive you are.
Also, the current use revolves around chat and coding.
The robot says:
Underwood was the typewriter brand for much of the early 20th century. Hemingway, Stein, and most journalists of the period used machines that looked basically like this. By 1939 they had produced their five-millionth unit, which was unheard of at the time.
And:
These machines were tanks. Everything is metal, everything is mechanical. If you oil it and replace the ribbon, chances are it would still work.
Found at the local skating rink, of all places.
Those Gemini slides and infographics are OK. What would be awesome is deciding as a civilization that we don’t want to handcraft slides and infographics anymore, and we’re cool with just letting the AIs make them based on the documents we write and give to the AIs to make their bad-ass vaporware slides.
(Then I could just say, “cool slide - mind sending me the original doc?")
(Wow,…and, yes, but: holy-fuck, that infographic is good.)
Shutdown and consolidate old IT so you can focus on new IT, like AI hoopla
People often say they spend 80% of their IT efforts on maintenance, “keeping the lights on”:
Like all banks, our technology expenditure has been weighted towards maintenance and regulatory programs. These activities represented around 85% of our tech investment spend in 2024.
So, simplifying that, shutting down old things is a positive thing to do;
We are simplifying our IT, reducing the number of applications and increasing the use of APIs and standardized tools.