Eyvonne Sharp

Reader of books. Thinker of thoughts. Tweeter of tweets. Google Cloud geek. Tweets are mine. ✌️❤️📚

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

I’m a collector of simple phrases, mostly one-line statements of wisdom that encapsulate something important about how to live. Here are a few I carry around with me, that have shaped how I see the world.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

Great perspective for this Sunday morning.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

No one could have seen this coming.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Amazon has reportedly scrapped its internal AI leaderboard as costs soared, with a senior executive telling staff: “don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI.”

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

@theseanodell After Lottie and Eliza, no woman ever did anything of value in the SBC — according to the rising fundamentalist horde. My husband and I were just lamenting the rise of fundamentalism and the inevitable decline that will continue.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

I get why the tech outcomes drive some people insane. I’ve joined companies 12 months “too late”, and merely made a good amount of money instead of generational wealth

The people who joined before me weren’t any better or smarter. They just got lucky. Just like someone looks at me and thinks I got lucky

The pure randomness of it all can either drive you crazy or give you an appreciation for the role of luck.

But at the end of the day you are in the driver’s seat. You choose your perspective

What I have come to learn is the people who think they alone earned their accomplishments are the most unhappy. The people with gratitude for the role luck played in their success are able to keep striving for more without losing their mind

They have come to acknowledge that while they can shape the world around them, and tilt the odds in their favor ever so slightly, ultimately a lot of it is out of their hands

[Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19]

The older I get, the more I understand why older women disappear into gardening, candles, comfy clothes, and silence.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

@kylehopper Solar panels are not data centers. 🙂 You’re also likely going to start seeing small form factor nuclear that’s incredibly safe before long. And, I’ve not heard the same pushback for the eyesore of a steel plant or a Ford battery plant.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

I’m in Kentucky and need someone to explain something to me. We will throw a party when a new auto manufacturing plant is announced. And yet, we are anti-data center? I’ve toured some of the most advanced DCs in the world. They’re way less obtrusive than a car plant.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

@jamesglenos My theory is that it’s because most people understand what cars are and why they matter. A lot of people, even though data centers are a huge part of their lives, don’t understand them or what they do. Granted, it’s not the same employment footprint as a mfg plant.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

We’re getting ready to see a ton of innovation about compute efficiency. I expect a major industry breakthrough in 6-12 months.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible.

Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

Happy Mother’s Day! If you have a mom or have kiddos and aren’t a mom there’s someone in your life to thank today! Here’s one of my favorite mom-pics of me from a couple of Easters ago!

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

The older I get, the more I believe happiness lives in the ordinary. Pets. Plants. A quiet morning coffee. Blue sky. Cotton clouds. Birds singing. The gentle breeze through the trees. A clean, cosy house. Good food. Good hearted simple poeple. So much of life’s beauty is quiet, gentle, and already here. And somehow, one of the sweetest feelings is knowing I get to wake up and meet it all again tomorrow.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

@NikkiMegaplaza @fienixtaranova It's easy to sell one on Carvana! I've got a paid-for car that I'm getting ready to sell because I know I won't drive it now that I have my Model Y Premium.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

@NikkiMegaplaza @fienixtaranova I just bought a Model Y and I LOVE it. I don’t know if I’ll ever go back to a gas vehicle. Please DM if you have questions!

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world.

"If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society.

"It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever.

That's hurtful."

"Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous.

"That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs.

"That is it going to completely destroy democracy.

"These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything."

Brutal.

And right.

[Taylor Pearson @TaylorPearsonMe]

Eli Goldratt's book, The Goal, was famous for its (then unpopular argument) that keeping every machine running 24 hours a day, the metric most plant managers cared about, was actively making factories worse. I suspect we're seeing the same fallacy in how many people are using AI agents.

Goldratt's point was that machine utilization isn't throughput. What you want from a manufacturing plants is making good widgets as cost-effectively as possible.
It doesn't necessarily follow that running your machines all the times optimizes that.

Picture a three-station assembly line. Stations 1 and 2 each crank out 200 widgets an hour. Station 3 can only handle 100. Running stations 1 and 2 around the clock doesn't ship more product. It just piles up half-finished widgets in front of station 3, ties up cash in inventory, and creates more work managing the pile.

He developed the Theory of Constraints to point out that what matters is solving the bottleneck in the system, not increasing machine utilization.

I suspect a lot of agent usage right now is the same fallacy at higher resolution. Running 20 Claude Code sessions in parallel can feel productive because something is always happening. But, if the bottleneck in your work is judgment about what's worth doing, more agents just generate more output for you to wade through.

This is not to say there aren't workflows running 20 agents in parallel very effectively, I'm sure there are. And, I suspect there's a general retraining we all need to do around evolving historical workflows. But....

The constraint for most knowledge work is deciding what's worth executing and no one is task switching between 20 things at the same time effectively I don't think. I find I can run maybe 2 or 3 things in parallel with maybe 1 or 2 admin-y type things on the side and that is only if I'm very locked in.

[Bobby Allen @ballen_clt]

Great ways to learn from things we showed at Cloud NEXT last week.

[Eyvonne Sharp @SharpNetwork]

At my husband’s favorite restaurant, Ramsey’s in Lexington, KY. Also, they make the best hot brown in the state.

[Bethany | Commercial Real Estate @bethanyjbabcock]

For the younger gals that get attention from guys and aren’t sure if it’s appropriate for the professional setting.

Here are some green flags:

✅ Talks about his family/ kids / friends often and affectionately

✅ Welcomes others to participate in the conversations and is friendly with everyone

✅ Doesn’t dominate your time and makes you feel comfortable walking away at any point

✅ Hesitates or avoids all together compliments on physical attributes. Or stops at just one quick compliment.

✅ Keeps conversations professional / friendly unconcerned with who might overhear or walk up.

These guys are gold.

Grateful to have worked with so may great guys over the years!

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

Cuando termino un libro y quiero empezar otro, pero siento que el que acabo de terminar merece un momento de silencio.