I did: Countdown Is it that time of the week again? Where did the time go? Here’s some stuff that happened: I read: AI Safety Index Unsurprising. Why product feels hard right now What is cybernetics I thought: The standard of shared understanding Product teams need shared understanding, and they need a standard of shared … The post first appeared on . Read more ›
Cat Stevens’ Buddha and the Chocolate Box, originally released in 1974, is the latest title in the singer-songwriter’s venerable cat-o-log to get the remastered reissue treatment. One of Yusuf’s four consecutive LPs to reach the top three in both the United States and Great Britain and his sixth A&M release… Read more ›
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Faster local sites, a dependency-free CLI install, and Claude Sonnet 5 now the default in Studio Code — here's what's new in WordPress Studio. Read more ›
My mother, Barbara Conway, who has died aged 94, was a civil servant and a volunteer both at her local church and as a school governor. Unable to take up further education in order to secure the opportunities she wanted in life, she achieved much that paved the way for others to succeed.A longtime governor at Victoria Church of England infants’ school, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Barbara was, for several years in the early 2000s, a member of an independent review panel reassessing decision... Read more ›
I went looking for a definition of "Directly Responsible Individuals" and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, where it's used to describe the person who is "ultimately accountable for the success or failure of a specific project, initiative, or activity". I've been thinking about this term recently in the context of LLM-powered agents and how they fit into human organizations. I don't think an agent should ever be considered the DRI for a proj... Read more ›
We gave four people on our team Recall, an AI knowledge base and Evernote alternative, for three weeks. Here's our honest verdict. The post appeared first on . Read more ›
A month ago if it was time to add Twitter cross-posting back to Micro.blog. After a lot of thought and feedback from users, I think yes. The goal has always been to help people publish on their own domain first, regardless of where they also choose to share their posts. While I hoped X would fade away, it hasn’t, and from an IndieWeb perspective there isn’t a major difference between many of the closed silos: X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads. Once you move beyond open protocols, every major soci... Read more ›
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I’m Joe Schiavone. We’ve spent a few posts on inheriting a strategy that wasn’t built to bend, and on a deal landing on a plane that’s still in the air. Today I want to flip the camera to the side of M&A nobody writes about, one I’ve lived. I’m talking about the sell-side here, the carve-out, that seat where you’re gripping the wheel while the business is getting […] Read more ›
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