10 hours ago
Cue the commencement speeches for 2026, and this one from Ronnie Chieng. It’s a good watch; there is some NSFW language if you have your speakers on. My favourite comment – “Speed Running Buddhism Misses the Point” – everything is about the journey. It’s about the learning experience; it’s about the path you are on to improve. Great speech (and funny).
10 hours ago
I just watched a quick synopsis of Microsoft Build this week. I was never big on conferences. I liked attending them with coworkers, hanging out in the evenings, talking about what we learned that day, and also seeing how much swag we could bring home. That was our goal – the swag, and how much per-diem we could save to go out at night. Conferences are a firehose that never stops. The whole time you’re there, it is go, go, go – it’s great, you leave with a bazillion ideas. But there is so much, and there is only so
2 days ago
The brick is heavy, and when you drop it, it hits the floor, and pieces chip off, but it’s still together. The functions of a brick are limited; it can be used to build something, although without mortar, it would fall over. Carrying it is heavy, and it weighs you down. It needs more to become something useful; it needs mortar, it needs precision, it needs levelling, and other bricks. And once altogether, it becomes something useful. By itself, not so great, but when together, awesomeness. Don’t be a brick, when you could work with a team and be awesome.
4 days ago
A Matrix is an environment or system where something else, an idea, a product, a concept, takes form and becomes something else. You go into the Matrix and come out changed by it (just like in the movie). The Idea Matrix is the lunchroom chatter, the discussion after a meeting has happened, the back and forth at your desk – that generates the next idea that your team should be working on. The Idea Matrix is a key indicator of growth as well – not all ideas are great, but the ability to generate ideas, the willingness to try new
6 days ago
I heard a good quote a few weeks ago about AI, because LLMs need to learn, what they learn comes from historical models, which are then used to extrapolate behaviour moving forward with what they have learned. Case in point, to draw, AI had to look at pictures of drawings to define structure and learning in order to draw in a similar model. I pick up a pencil, stare at the piece of paper, and see what comes out. Now, I would love to have the benefit of a model of all these artists in my head to help me
