AI slop – so what?
Lately there are plenty of articles discussing AI slop – that would be AI generated digital content of low (or no) quality, meaningless, pointless, junk. I don’t get it – what’s the fuzz about? People were trying to get their…
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Gratefully fake?
There are two interesting patterns that seem to thrive @ LinkedIn. Pattern I – one gets laid-off, fired, managed out but one feels super grateful, happy, cheery. Pattern II – one finds a new job and immediately feels super grateful,…
Job security?
If you want job security – run a funeral home, become a forensic pathologist. Especially the latter. Somehow people won’t stop dying. Sure, those do not scale up but it is job security you are after, right? In IT the…
Fix, ignore, quit or suffer
Some of us get fuzzy when facing serious problems. We don’t like those unless they are fixed, addressed. Sometimes we can fix them on our own and sometimes we need to alert others who can. Sometimes we imagine problems and…
What is innovation?
I find this weird pattern over and over again. Somebody does something and then calls it an “innovation”. It does not matter how small and insignificant is, for as long as it is something “new”. People will embrace it, because…
Hype is all you need
Really. It’s just that. Hype. That’s all you need to “succeed”. Having a product/service? It’s great but not as great as having hype around it. Having product market fit? Awesome but not as awesome as having it coated in hype.…
Victim of success and popularity
Late 90s, I stumbled on an interview with a band. What caught my attention was a paragraph how popularity almost destroyed them. The band was one of the first hardcore punk performers on the scene. They were rebelling against what…
About “best” practices…
There are no “best” practices. There are sensible, good, very good and great practices but there are no best ones. Best, as a word, implies one thing > can’t get better than this. As it happens, not only it can,…
Do you convert experience to skills?
Having experience is great but it’s just that – experience. Doing something for 5, 7, 10, 20 years can guarantee only one thing – you have done it for so long. Do those years translate into skills, knowledge, practice? Unknown.…
(not) Being redundant
Most people are (sadly) redundant. Regardless of the industry. No need for automation or Machine Learning to replace them. They can be fired right away and more often than not this would lead to positive change for both the businesses…