🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print

> The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company pretends that everyone reads them and makes an informed decision to accept their terms. If you’re the company sending out the contracts, it seems kind of risky to undermine that convention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a…

🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print

> The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company pretends that everyone reads them and makes an informed decision to accept their terms. If you’re the company sending out the contracts, it seems kind of risky to undermine that convention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a…

🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions

> Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on a skunk works project with one engineer,” Martin-Flickinger advises. “You need to identify an IT person who looks and smells like a product engineer; it needs to be someone the engineering people like.” If you do this right, says Martin-Flickinger, that person will become your ambassador. “That way, when someone in engineering says, ‘what do you think of involving IT in this?

🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions

> Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on a skunk works project with one engineer,” Martin-Flickinger advises. “You need to identify an IT person who looks and smells like a product engineer; it needs to be someone the engineering people like.” If you do this right, says Martin-Flickinger, that person will become your ambassador. “That way, when someone in engineering says, ‘what do you think of involving IT in this?

🗂 What happened to OpenStack?

> So, you see, creating a viable, open source, hyperscale cloud software solution was against the best interest of the companies most heavily investing in OpenStack’s development. > When you’re looking at other cloud products, think about similar conflicts of interest that might be affecting your favorite spokespersons today… (I’m looking at you, kubernetes) aeva.online/2019/03/w…

🗂 What happened to OpenStack?

> So, you see, creating a viable, open source, hyperscale cloud software solution was against the best interest of the companies most heavily investing in OpenStack’s development. > When you’re looking at other cloud products, think about similar conflicts of interest that might be affecting your favorite spokespersons today… (I’m looking at you, kubernetes) aeva.online/2019/03/w…