Bookmarks from 2023
160 bookmarks from 2023
The delusion of Healthy Tensions
Every organisation I’ve ever worked with has suffered from ‘healthy tensions’ between roles turned nasty in one form or another. I’ve seen them lead to interpersonal conflict, team dysfunction, silos and productivity grinding to a halt. In general - bad outcomes all round....
Right-sizing your technology team | Thoughtworks
Managing the scale of your technology teams to accomplish strategic goals can be challenging. How can business leaders get it right?
Balancing Autonomy and Alignment with Accountability | by Richard Lennox |
Autonomous teams that are highly Aligned to purpose, are also explicitly Accountable. By having concrete mechanisms maximising Transparency and improving Commitments you can drive accountabilty.
Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
Hi, my name is Andrew, or ‘Sock’ to most people. This blog is where I share my experiences as I journey into ASP.NET Core.
Hard to work with. | Irrational Exuberance
Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any comp
Moving From Vue 1 To Vue 2 To Vue 3: A Case Study Of Migrating A Headless C
In this article, Elisabeth Wieser-Linhart explores its potential benefits and drawbacks and shares what considerations and steps were involved in the process of migrating the front-end interface of Storyblok’s headless content management system.
alextaylor.ca - Adventures in Time: Debugging a Daylight Saving Bug
What’s more fun than bugs? Bugs involving time! And none are so fascinating as bugs involving daylight saving time. With Daylight saving time almost upon us again, I thought it would be fun to rev...
Tech Layoffs: A Forgotten Deja Vu | by Amit Phansalkar | Jan, 2023 | Medium
The big-tech layoffs, coming one after another, have caught the media by storm. Some of the biggest names, like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon have joined the “layoff” bandwagon on the heels of Twitter…
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble | by Cory Doctorow | Mar,
Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea — known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water — changed its name to “Long Blockchain Corp.” Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their…
Making Sense of Generative AI in 2023 | by Eon Mattis | Mar, 2023 | Startup
Since its launch in November 2022, Chat-GPT, a Generative AI model, has garnered significant attention worldwide. Generative AI, a subset of Artificial Intelligence, utilizes foundational models to…
Will ChatGPT spark the next financial bubble? | by Michael F. Buckley | UX
Revolutionary technology will always be synonymous with a new way to get rich. With the current growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is fair to say we are looking at another technology gold…
I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever H
In retrospect the fact we were all day trading tech stocks from Stanford’s computer labs probably suggested it was a bit of a bubble, although eToys options did pay for two consecutive Spring Break…
The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Foosball Table | by Clive Thompson | Mar,
Back during the dot-com boom of the late 90s, if you visited one of the then-hot startups in San Francisco — or other major US cities like New York — there was an emerging workplace aesthetic. Ties…
The Day the Dotcom Bust Began. The lesson we still refuse to learn… | by Do
The Internet changed for me on the morning of January 10, 2000, when an editor from the New York Times called to ask if I could bang out an OpEd by that afternoon. I was thrilled. The culture of the…
The Original Apocalypse:. 5 Lessons from the Dot-Com Crash | by Jeff Fluhr
Startup lessons from the dotcom crash of 2000 are relevant again today in the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis.
SpeedCurve | Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how
Find feature updates, web performance speed tips and industry insights on the SpeedCurve blog.
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
Emergence can be defined as the sudden appearance of novel behavior. Large Language Models apparently display emergence by suddenly gaining new abilities as they grow. Why does this happen, and what does this mean?
