Notices by Adrian Howard (adrianh@mastodon.social)

@cstross Future levels:
* folk reading a question mark when there wasn’t one there in the first place
* folk read an entirely imaginary sentence rather than the one you wrote

Blinding flash of the obvious: The dude who responds to questions with 'I asked SomeRandomLLM and got <something>' cares more about being the person with the answer, than the answer.

I would not be surprised if "meetings that should have be emails" have less net downside than "emails that should have been meetings".

It's just that the waste of the former is way more obvious than the waste of the latter.

Feeling exhausted so switching up today’s to do list to fun/simple things.

@Iris @RuthMalan I do! I do!

Coz I was there in ’88 doing Computing & AI — and Maggie was one of my Cognitive Philosophy lecturers.

Just one of those stupidly smart people you feel lucky to have spent time with.

Still got her AI and Natural Man on the bookshelves somewhere :-)

#Brutalist September

Am I being overly cynical by noticing this pattern happening a bunch (not all the time, but often).

1) We need to have a career progression for folk to get better at Whatever, rather than becoming a people manager (staff/principle engineer | product | etc.)

2) People progress to staff/principle engineer | product | etc.

3) The staff/principle person continually complaining about more junior folk not doing what they tell them… coz they lack people management skills.