Webstock 2009, Talking About Fear
This is just for me, you don't have to watch me take my clothes off on the Webstock stage 🫣 " Webstock Undressed", filmed by Sigurd Magnusson - Mike Riversdale doing his 8x5
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Reinventing The Wheel Is For The Machines
"AI is not all that it's cracked up to be!", and you can go search for as many articles as you like expressing such a view. As I sit here listening to a work conversation it strikes me that LLMs, especially generative LLMs ('AI' from now on) are gonna take a lot of 'work' from knowledge workers. Reinventing the wheel is, I suspect, what a LOT of people are doing in office pods around the world. It's rare, very rare, to experience a problem that has not been encountered, discussed, resolved, and published about. This is why code ("programming") is such a rich area for 'AI', almost everything that needs resolving has been by someone and is on open places such as GitHub. Your particular coding opportunity might be unique when seen as a whole but the individual components are likely already out there just waiting to be put together in your novel way. This applies to your policy, your work programme, your leadership challenge, anything th
Catastrophising, It's Only Human
A month in and you've still not found a job. "Jeez, this is never going to happen, what do I say to the kids, can we keep paying the mortgage, Christ, maybe we can move out to something smaller, I'm never gonna get a job!" "Bloody hell, Christine still doesn't have a job, sounds like it's a nightmare out there. What if they don't extend my contract? Should we look at Australia, what a nightmare!!" "They're gonna cut my job, I know they are, the boss won't talk to me about it, she doesn't know anything anyway, I hate this time. They can't surely stop the project, we're nearly there. I start looking for jobs, any job, I'll never get a job when I need it, better get one now." I spent the day catching up with some people and the stories of how so many people are catastrophising is a worry. The pressure, the intense anxiety, the tears, it can all feel so so SO overwhelming. "It'll be hard until it ends, if it