Joe Procopio: This Is Generative AI’s Fatal Flaw. AI is Great At Doing Stuff Already Being Done Poorly By Humans (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: The Intelligence Illusion: stepping into a pile of 'AI'. After I published Out of the Software Crisis I divided my time too much...time when I, again, deliberately chose not to think entrepreneurially and instead wrote the book I thought (and still think) needed to exist in the world (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: From 'Yellow': Gall's Law. One of my favourite laws – one of those principles that seem to be universally applicable – is Gall’s Law. People who have worked with me in the past are probably very tired of hearing about it. (more)

Joe Procopio: Um, Hi. This Is What Generative AI Is For. It's for When SaaS Is Dead. Oracle and SAP aren’t going bankrupt tomorrow. But we’re quickly approaching the inflection point where the user expectations and the tech are converging on a Do-It-for-Me brand of data analysis that’s going to eclipse the current Do-It-Yourself model. (more)

Joe Procopio: The End of SaaS Is Closer Than You Think. As more and more companies hop on the A.I. train in what seems like a panicked game of musical chairs... it just might be actual panic driving the decisions in those executive boardrooms right now. (more)

VpJoe Procopio: Why You Should Build Every New Product Feature Like an MVP. Making a mistake launching a new product feature is costly, and I’ve done it at least a dozen times. Never again. (more)

job market tool for HR recruiters to make it easier to do first-round filtering; aka ATS

see Revenue

book by Baldur Bjarnason about GenAI. https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/

aka React

Baldur Bjarnason: Let's pause for a moment, I need time to think. Back when I relaunched this site in 2010...point was that it would be a more focused foundation for my career...this site has always had a defined purpose... ultimately it should always return to form: work. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: Plan B it is. My default worldview is that of a disappointed optimist. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: The promise and distraction of productivity and note-taking systems. A while back I did a deep-dive researching and prototyping note-taking tools. (more)

Joe Procopio: The End Of Merit In The Recruiting Process. When “vibes” take priority over experience and ingenuity, everyone loses. (job market) (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: The one about the web developer job market. The software developer job market today looks at least as bad as it did in the aftermath of the dot-com collapse. This is not a one-off event but has turned into a stock market driven movement towards reducing the overall headcount of the tech industry. (more)

Paul Thurrott: Review of Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky. Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution by Steven Sinofsky is an insider’s account of the events that drove MS-Windows and the PC first to prominence and then to their inevitable downward slide. If you care about this history as much as I do, you should read it immediately (more)

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Brian Clark had a "Teaching Sells" process for building HowTo-focused Paid Site-s (Business Models For Information), which he teaches over a 12-week period for $1000. (more)

Even when entire groups are ostensibly completely excluded from the state's traditional networks of power (on the basis of arbitrary criteria such as gender, nobility, race, religion or poverty), elite theory recognizes that "counter-elites" frequently develop within such excluded groups.[3] Negotiations between such disenfranchised groups and the state can be analyzed as negotiations between elites and counter-elites. A major problem, in turn, is the ability of elites to co-opt counter-elites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory (more)

Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity... In engineering, a solution may be considered elegant if it uses a non-obvious method to produce a solution which is highly effective and simple. An elegant solution may solve multiple problems at once, especially problems that are not thought to be inter-related.[6] Elegance can arguably be measured for engineering problems as the ratio of problem complexity to that of solution complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegance