This week I have learned:
- I can’t work out whether I’ve joined a new or an existing team. I’m not sure it matters much, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
- navigating the vagaries of the way in which large organisations procure services continues to strike me as a form of witchcraft dressed up as a business process. I’m starting to think that treating it all as some sort of LARP might be the best way to maintain sanity.
- things like booking flights have become painful because of technology, supposedly there to help us. Price comparison engines force providers to push down headline prices, but that then leads to product add-ons that bump the price up again. It’s then a series of trade-offs to determine which package works best in context.
The idea that this will be replaced with agents is for the birds. - it’s remarkable how disappointing some online experiences can be. But even worse now is when the online chat is indistinguishable from an LLM, but you know for certain it’s an actual person.
- thinking about how to use LLMs to help people to interact with content from a learning perspective, and planning some experiments.
- the remarkable accident that led to ARM chips ruling the (mobile) world.
The week in media:
Saw: Race Across the World and, in real-world vision, the amazing floral display in the Isabella Plantation.
Read: Finished C Thi Nguyen’s The Score at last. It’s left me thinking that Agile will never work.
Next week:
Another short one
The week in photos:
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