matthewskelton

matthewskelton, 8 days ago to ai

AI as a religious cult. "The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism."

By Emily Gorcenski

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

#ai

matthewskelton, 21 days ago to random

"Avoid another 're-org' by adopting Team Topologies" - who would like an article or materials on this? 🤔

#reorg #TeamTopologies #FastFlow

matthewskelton, 23 days ago to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

🤬

matthewskelton, 23 days ago to random

Aha, I get it now: the GenAI enshittification of cloud services like Slack, StackOverflow, Google, Discord, MSFT, and all the rest is a conspiracy by lonely SysAdmins who miss the old days of running IT equipment in-house and are pushing a return to on-prem 🖥️💽⌨️

It. All. Makes. Sense. 🤪

#GenAI #cloud #onprem #enshittification

matthewskelton, 24 days ago to random

TIL: CxO people are making crucial strategic decisions based on ... what ChatGPT happens to regurgitate. 😵‍💫

So to have a chance of a good understanding of your services or ideas, and therefore a good decision from these CxO people, you need to feed the GenAI beast with more publicly available data.

Like a monstously inefficient search engine. 😵‍💫

#GenAI

matthewskelton, 25 days ago to random

This article is superb: "How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem"

From Spotify engineering

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/08/how-we-use-golden-paths-to-solve-fragmentation-in-our-software-ecosystem/

matthewskelton, 28 days ago to random

"The fraud of the cryptocurrency bubble was far more pervasive than the fraud in the dotcom bubble, so much so that without the fraud, there’s almost nothing left. A few programmers were trained in Rust, a very secure programming language that is broadly applicable elsewhere. But otherwise, the residue from crypto is a lot of bad digital art and worse Austrian economics."

Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

"But how does it scale?" is a common question for organizational transformation initiatives. The answer is that it scales primarily via enthusiasm and learning, not via structure or framework.

Example:

Let's say the required outcome is to move 100 people over 10 kilometers. Do you:

1. Build a juggernaut that fits 100 people 🚚 - the "framework" approach
2. Organize a 10km fun run and train people up 🏃 - the nimble, humane approach

The 10km run is the way

#transformation #FastFlow

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

Friday night at the climbing wall: chalk and blood 🤓

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

📢 I have decided to make the core operation of Team Topologies non-profit. TT authors Manuel Pais and I are committed to the core mission : "...to make work more humane and more effective for everyone ..." and means I will not be able to profit personally from core TT activities. 💵🚫

More details over the coming weeks as changes happen...

I'd welcome your thoughts and feeling on this! 🙏

#TeamTopologies #NonProfit

https://buff.ly/4dlZwhz

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists.

🐵🧑🏼‍⚕️

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68942123.amp

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

This is officially the coolest LEGO figure

#BobaFett

LEGO Mini figure of Boba Fett

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

YCombinator is officially a threat to democracy ☣️

"as an alternative to forming new cities, tech zillionaires can use elections to seize existing governments."

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

"real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. Case after case, from Australia to the Netherlands, has proven that unleashing machine learning in welfare systems amplifies injustice and the punishment of the poor. AI doesn't provide insights as it's just a giant statistical guessing game. What it does do is amplify thoughtlessness, a lack of care, and a distancing from actual consequences."

https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

We Need To Rewild The Internet
By MARIA FARRELL AND ROBIN BERJON

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#complexity

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

I have just bought my ticket to Fast Flow Conf 2024 have you?

▶️ https://buff.ly/41pQ8mS

#TeamTopologies #FastFlow

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

Prodigy 🎧

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to devops

🤯 US firms lost $360bn per year in poor productivity due to poor employee-supervisor relationships.

Sabine Wojcieszak at Acceler8IT conference

#Acceler8IT #DevOps #Transformation

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

"we provide guidance for organizations on how to maintain high job demands by emphasizing collective trust and open communication about organizational-level competitive pressure to mitigate burnout at work. "

Research curated by the Tavistock Institute

https://buff.ly/3TPke0p

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

Val Yonchev Joins Team Topologies Leading Go-to-Market as Head of Customer Success

This is a big step for us at #TeamTopologies 🤩

https://buff.ly/4aDxzQa

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

Neptune looking sad today in Leeds

#LeodisSpaceAgency 🚀🧑🏼‍🚀

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

Today's status: neurospicy 🌶️

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

Do the USians who work on the green owl app even speak English?

In what world is this wrong? "I am free only on Tuesday morning" 🤬

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

The fun thing about the Haier micro enterprise model is that it's basically the logical extension of autonomous teams ... but with a strong "legal bulkhead" around each team, because each team* is a separate company with its own P&L, CEO, etc.

A forcing function for innovation, accountability, limiting risk, etc.

(*Not quite true but close enough)

#innovation #3eo #eqip

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/next-influential-management-model-of-the-world

matthewskelton, 2 months ago to random

Is the main purpose of your organisation actually Exec enrichment or truly customer success?

Because the behaviour of many orgs suggests that Exec enrichment is the real purpose.

🐉💰