Lately, I’ve seen some evidence of reliability engineers giving up.
Throwing in the towel. Going with the flow. Not rocking the boat.
Is that our charter? To roll over and accept that we cannot make a difference?
No, it’s not. Continue reading
Bruce Schneier
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. Continue reading
At times, even leadership can be a tremendously lonely experience.
The emotional fallout of making difficult decisions that negatively affect the lives of some team members, the feeling of rejection when team members leave for other opportunities, and the discomfort of disappointing passionate team members who offer ideas that can’t be executed in the moment, among many other leadership acts, all take their toll. Continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most rapidly expanding technologies in human history. It is also a disruptive technology that can do harm as well as good. On the beneficial side are new methods or robotic surgery and improved citations in medical and scientific papers.
On the harmful and dangerous side, if a person’s voice has been recorded on the Web, criminals using AI can imitate the voice and send a message to the person’s family such as “help I’m being held for ransom.” Continue reading
Understand the culture of the new company (with which you are joining or negotiating) and its standards of what is reasonable.
James Nunan – Business person
What’s the best metaphor for defining the project structure and process for getting lean and agile work done? It may be an orchestra. Continue reading