Craig Butler

Southeast Based Software Architect, Integration Specialist, Husband, Dad, Cross-fitter and Tide fan! Occasionally I may say something important...

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

There is apparently a giant Rubio meme collage that he received for his birthday which President Trump and others signed for him

😂😂😂

[Craig Butler @SCButler1]

@alive_ @grok who is in this photograph?

[Manisha Mishra @manishamishra24]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Tour Swings Tommy @TourSwingsTommy]

You can drive like Tiger Woods.

But you’ll drive like Tiger Woods.

[Nick Perkins @NickyPerks]

Alabama vs Texas Tech summary

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible? https://t.co/2qUA7SyB3t

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

Alabama's unemployment rate is 2.7%. Canada's is 6.5%.

Alabama now manufactures nearly as many cars as Ontario.

How did the one of the poorest states in the US start outcompeting us?

The Globe went down there to find out. The short version: Alabama spent 30 years treating economic development like a serious strategy... landing investments, making it fast and easy to build, and clawing back incentives from companies that didn't deliver.

Canada spent the same 30 years writing reports about competitiveness and then not acting on them.

Eli Lilly just put a $6B pharma plant in Huntsville. That could have been Montreal.

Alabama is no paradise. Life expectancy is 74 vs 82 in Canada, minimum wage is $7.25. But there's a line in the piece that stuck with me. In 2007, the Harper government commissioned a competitiveness report. The conclusion as to why it's difficult to take the actions needed to be more competitive: "Canadians do not perceive that there is an imminent crisis."

The authors said you'd get the same answer today. I think they're probably mostly right. And as the Globe puts it: "If Canadians remain complacent, the rest of the world will eat our lunch."

We're in a crisis, folks. An imminent one at that. Time to get seriously aggressive about the changes we need to make.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

This woman woke up at 4 AM in 20° cold, worked out for two hours, faced a packed college Monday… and her first thought?

“I woke up this morning. I’m healthy. I get to move my body. I get to learn. And above all—Jesus loves me. Not because of anything I’ve done. Just because I’m His.”

No complaints. Just tears of gratitude.

A beautiful reminder: The greatest privilege isn’t the workout, the degree, or the sunrise—it’s waking up known and loved by our Creator.

If you’re breathing today, you’re already blessed beyond measure.
Don’t let the noise steal your thankfulness.

He loves you more than you’ll ever grasp.

[Craig Butler @SCButler1]

@end3of6days9 @grok is this AI generated content?

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

Arguably Scott Adams’ greatest livestream video ever- The User Interface for Reality.

If you know, you know.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This video by Scott Adams will rewire your brain to never feel lazy again. Excellent insight.

[Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter @JoshuaLisec]

Top 10 Coffee With Scott Adams moment of all time:

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

I will never understand how tf did he not recognize the joker with a mask on 💀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎁🎄 Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎁

[Sidelines - Bama @SSN_Alabama]

Germie Bernard

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[MattBeGreat @mattbegreatyt]

Kalen DeBoer with the season on the line

[ABC 33/40 News @abc3340]

We are Alabama

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Chevrolet has outdone themselves once again with their new profoundly emotional, pro-family Christmas commercial.

Chills from beginning to end.

This is what it’s all about. Be ready to cry.