Funny experiment at drawing parallels between engineering leadership and how you should behave when hiking in nature. This works surprisingly well.

Nice advices to deal with underperforming teams or individuals. Making the distinction between refusal to align or failure to execute is particularly useful.

We keep finding floppies in use at surprising places. There's clearly lot of inertia for technologies getting replaced.

I'm rarely on the side of a Goldman Sachs... Still this paper seems to be spot on. The equation between the costs (financial and ecological) and the value we get out of generative AI isn't balanced at all. Also, since it is stuck on trying to improve mostly on model scale and amount of data it is doomed to plateau in its current form.

This one is more self-help than I'm usually comfortable with... somehow something rung true to me with it. It's indeed a good reminder that changing habits takes a while. It's an exercise in patience and there are good reasons for it.