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June 21, 2024Episode 472: Speaking of Goat Rodeos
This week, we discuss Forrester’s LLM Wave, Nvidia's Market Cap Dilemma, and why everything is code. Plus, Matt Ray explains more about Australian slang.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 472
Runner-up Titles
Is pig latin American?
The final boss for Duolingo
The Corrections Episode
You can always get it from the leader
Frito Lay of Chips
Everything is code
Rundown
Forrester has no idea what its talking about
Get it from Google.
Nvidia
Nvidia Earnings: Stock Rallies As AI Giant Reports 600% Profit Explosion, 10-For-1 Stock Split
Nvidia: Short bets against stock top $34B
Nvidia to Become $10T Company: I/O Fund's Kindig
Intel CEO Fires Back at Nvidia in Battle for AI Chip Leadership
Peak Nvidia
Solomon Hykes & Dagger
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Ghost jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
Broadcom soars as demand for AI chips power forecast raise
Clouded Judgement 6.14.24 - Is Seat Based Pricing Dead?
Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog) Shares Every Lesson From Scaling to $40B
US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
Senior Engineer Fatigue
AWS’ AI And GenAI Leader Leaves For DigitalOcean As New CTO
The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings
Nonsense
You can renew U.S. passports online again
The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas
Conferences
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Houston Public Library and Libby
Matt: Dissect podcast
Coté: Ikea RIKLIG - small, glass teapot.
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June 14, 2024Episode 471: The Gen X mascot is Fine Dog
This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 471
Runner-up Titles
Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall
I need two offers
You Kids
We are the rock eaters to Slack
I mean, what else am I doing with my life?
Rundown
Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI
Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview
Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass
macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows
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Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding
Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident
The Worst Website In The Entire World
How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size
Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories
Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG)
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team
What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack
Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack
Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor
Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway
OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple.
Openwashing
IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season
How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries
OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard
'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch
Adam Selipsky, the exit interview
Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches
10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman
Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated?
Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant
Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97)
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow
AI Patterns
Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding
Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS
GitLab quarter
eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images
Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart
The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning
GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares
VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS
Silicon Valley's False Prophet
Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last
Nonsense
Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads
Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch
The five stages of computer science
Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing
Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say
The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends
Conferences
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Recommendations
Brandon:
MoviePass, MovieCrash
From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592)
Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS
Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.”
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June 07, 2024Episode 470: Paul Yuknewicz on Serverless
Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow.
Show Links
Serverless Days Sydney
dapr.io
Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps
Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager
Contact Paul
LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz
Twitter: @paulyuki99
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May 31, 2024Episode 469: Amanda K. Silver on Developer Tools
Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks.
Show Links
visualstudio.com
Contact Amanda
LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver
Twitter: @amandaksilver
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May 24, 2024Episode 468: Learning to love Enterprise Software
This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 468
Runner-up Titles
Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept.
Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it
Thanks Clayton Williams
Multi-size Monkey Phase
There’s people I know
“Yes, and” is now fully ironic
Pop sockets are the future
All out of tokens, going home
You said Squawkbox Cote’
Rundown
New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Services
A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
App Engine overlay
Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite
Greenplum
Microsoft Build
Introducing Copilot+ PCs
Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA
Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes
Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'
Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024
Relevant to your Interests
Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer
VMware Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use
More thoughts on OSS business models
After selling his startup for a life-changing $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal launched a VC firm and two high-value startups. Why?
Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base
ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet
With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?
Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation
Tech Influencing
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
Privacy Principles: Search, Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Legal
As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline?
Apple execs on iMessage for Android
‘You’re Fighting AI With AI’: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process
The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens
Scott Galloways Predictions for 2024 at OMR24
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89
The pandemic darlings: where are they now?
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Surpass $675 Billion in 2024
ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t
Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT
OpenAI loses its voice
Nonsense
Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star
Listener Feedback
Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations
Black Hole® Pack 25L – Matt
Goruck Travel Rucksacks – Matt
Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 – Michael
Everyday Backpack from Peak Design – Andy
Conferences
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Water Meter Valve Key
Matt: Bobby Fingers: “Fabio and the Goose”
Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod
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May 17, 2024Episode 467: Multimodal
This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 467
Runner-up Titles
Do what works
Blame the children
I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993
I like carrots
Rundown
A.I. Announcements
Introducing GPT-4o
‎Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements
Google I/O 2024
Palace Intrigue
Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement
Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.
Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later.
Relevant to your Interests
Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI
Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics?
Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein
Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year
Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business
Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp?
How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount
Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake?
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!
Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal
Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson
Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!
Nonsense
YETI 34 oz French Press - in NL, €125!
Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time
Conferences
Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dark Matter
Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson.
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May 10, 2024Episode 466: Great Grammarly
This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 466
Runner-up Titles
Coté is in a Dungeon
Everything’s going to be different
What would Stringer Bell say?
Displacing Google
Great Grammarly
A room full of barking dogs
A little bit of hustle porn.
Over value activity
A whole room with barking dogs
Rundown
Clouded Judgement 5.3.24
OpenAI To Launch Search Engine
Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation
That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM
Relevant to your Interests
Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine.
Data Privacy: All the Ways Your Cellphone Carrier Tracks You and How to Stop It
Supercharged Developer Portals
VMware eases changes and deadlines for CSPs
Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive
Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech
Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch
Open sourcing Octo STS
Apple is an edge computing company.
EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch
Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch
VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom
Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment
How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
UniSuper and GCP
AWS ‘Disappointed’ It’s No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt
Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age
Why companies list fake jobs
Nonsense
Justice for cord boxes!!!
Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary
North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs
Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco
Conferences
Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony.
MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Fallout
Matt: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
Coté:
My book is on sale at Leanpub.
Get XP for donating miles with KLM/Flying Blue.
Trade show interview
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May 03, 2024Episode 465: The Big Blue Burger Buffet
This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 465
Runner-up Titles
Extra Innings
Later Innings
Customer is always right, except for pricing
Leave the party crying
Put a price on it
Rundown
Hashi
Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud
HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost
IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand
IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next?
The threat to open source comes from within
You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
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AlmaLinux 9.4 beta: RHEL compatible, but a little different
Building for our AI future
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
Amazon recently bought a $650 million nuclear-powered data center
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
Netflix Dealt With the Freeloaders. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher.
Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck
Do software companies actually have good margins?
Women Who Code: Influential tech network shuts down unexpectedly
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
Tesla’s Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish: ‘Will you please at least appear to make Tesla your top priority?’
The SignalFire State of Talent Report: 2023 tech employee trends
Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data | Amazon Web Services
Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta
US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology
Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' | TechCrunch
Broadcom Tells Partner Negotiating For Charity ‘VMware Is Not For Everybody’
Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry
Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories
Atlassian Co-CEO Scott Farquhar Resigns, Leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as Sole Chief
Thoma Bravo to buy UK-listed Darktrace for £4.3bn
All we have to fear is FUD itself — Oxide and Friends
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value
Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage
The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys
Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy?
State of DevSecOps | Datadog
Letter from Edward Norton, Founder of Zeck, Why Zeck
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Alphabet earnings are out — here are the numbers
Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement
Amazon earnings are out — here are the numbers
Microsoft earnings are out – here are the numbers
Nonsense
Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy
A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors
Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp
Conferences
Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
SDT news & hype
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Brandon:
MarkdownDown
BBEdit's Extract and new feature blindness
Coté: Adam Savage Q&A
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April 26, 2024Episode 464: Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game
Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.
Show Links
Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is.
Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
Two way door decisions
Dogs not barking.
Weasel words.
If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.
Contact Jana Werner
LinkedIn: Jana Werner.
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The Cards
Here's the text of the all the cards:
Mechanism
How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?
Culture
How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
How can you start your next meeting with a document read?
Organisation
How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?
Leadership
How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?
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51 min
April 19, 2024Episode 463: Phishing License
This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience?
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Runner-up Titles
The fun run was fun.
You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts.
The Phish are biting
Everything’s cool zone
Words that rhyme with “acquisation”
Maybe AI can find it
The market for products that start with “K”
I like hotdogs
Don’t do the values, just the fun facts
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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy
OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp
Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu
Matt Asay response Tweet
Adam Jacob take
Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica
451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028)
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