Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash We’re making the same mistake with AI that early car manufacturers made with automobiles – we’re building rehashed versions of existing applications instead of reimagining what’s possible. As Pete Koomen points…
This is only one facet of the problems you run into when you don’t build internal tooling — the team creates what they need and runs with it Why waiting for perfect software is slowing your team down You’ve seen…
Photo by 12photostory on Unsplash This week Tobi Lutke, the CEO of Shopify, made AI use at his company mandatory and wrote: “Using AI effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify. It’s a tool of all trades…
Photo by Stephen Phillips – Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash What makes a perfect Slack message? No, I’m not talking about a dunk, reaction gif, or pranks like faking a typing indicator with a bot so that people are typing… appears constantly.…
Why isn’t this sort of functionality easy to create everywhere? One of the biggest challenges to obtaining a full view of the customer is that the system you are viewing probably doesn’t have access to the important milestones of a…
It takes an average of 23 minutes to recover from an interruption. Have you experienced that feeling of “what was I doing” after being interrupted mid-task? Perhaps you were cooking dinner, your phone buzzed with a text, and then someone…
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash A (very) smart person recently shared feedback with me that was brief, accurate, and telling. He suggested: “when you have big ideas, start with smaller words and bring people along for the ride.” This…
An example of a daily summary from my tutor Robot I recently hired a tutor to help me learn Python. It just happens to be a robot. Any job that touches an engineering function is more technical today than in…
ASCII version of Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash Sahil Bloom writes in the parable of the Blind Men & the Elephant: What would it take to change my mind? Knowing what it would take to change your mind on…
Photo by John Barkiple on Unsplash In any company today there are many intersections between systems. The analog version looked a lot like this control board where similarly colored cables indicate similar kinds of data that need to flow from…
