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Always front load your project risk (TLP 2024w43)

On why it is so important to tackle the riskiest topics at the beginning of your projects.

2024-10-29 21:20:46
The three types of communication (TLP 2024w42)

There are three main methods of communication commonly used in a business context.

2024-10-21 19:33:43
Align on goals not culture (TLP 2024w40)

Cultural conflict is fine (how we do things), but conflict on strategic goals is not (what we are building).

2024-10-08 08:09:56
Being overwhelmed (TLP 2024w39)

Last week I was totally overwhelmed, which resulted in me recording this episode one week late. Why does this happen?

2024-10-06 16:52:31
Leave your meetings (TLP 2024w38)

I think we need to normalise leaving meetings that are wasting your time.

2024-09-23 19:51:16
Compliment your enemies (TLP 2024w37)

For every promoter you will have several detractors so you must be ready to deal with them. Compliment your enemies to disarm or confuse them.

2024-09-15 21:12:56
There are only two ways to sell a message (TLP 2024w36)

Politicians want you to vote for them, sales and marketing folks want you to buy their products, while you manager wants you to deliver results. There are two main ways they achieve this.

2024-09-08 20:56:23
There is no Moore's Law for AI (TLP 2024w35)

I feel like we're in the vertical scaling phase of language model design, I look forward to federated model architectures running on cheap commodity hardware.

2024-09-02 19:50:17
Silicon Valley envy amongst executives (TLP 2024w34)

In many traditional industries, you will find executives who really wish their companies were Silicon Valley companies. Why is this?

2024-08-26 21:09:45
Generating logo images with Grok (TLP 2024w33)

This week I used Grok to render a new logo for my web search engine greppr, and got great results!

2024-08-19 19:00:24
It really is that simple (TLP 2024w31)

A great leader can make anything seem simple and clear, because they are great communicators.

2024-08-05 20:14:12
The CrowdStrike outage (TLP 2024w29)

This week I will provide a summary of the CrowdStrike global outage, and why we are so vulnerable to such issues.

2024-07-22 20:04:23
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