Will Calligan

I have a keen interest in 16th Century Italian Renaissance Art.

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

Bring back #OnePour2024

[Pints Of Beauty @PintsBeauty]

This is going to throw a spanner in the mix...

I think I've just had the best pint of Murphy's in my life...and it was in 1 pour 🤯

📍The Fighting Cocks in The New Forest

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[GFed🇺🇸 @GfedGoCrazy]

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

Insider trading for thee but not for me

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[seth | sunny 18 @pqdres]

happy st patricks day don't forget to drink green today

[The Screen Rot Podcast @screenrotpod]

Guinness drinkers

[hunter @3gpmh]

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

@BrittanyLucy

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

Peak

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i still talk about u

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

PREACH

[Nicolas-Tyrell Scott @iamntyrell]

That Wimbledon, Richmond, Twickenham, Windsor, Teddington, Hampton side of London (greater) is perfect. The sunny weather really reveals it. It has the perfect suburban feel with proximity to city life

[Brittany @BrittanyLucy]

I can’t do this anymore, man. @SpursOfficial #FrankOut

[ru @ruqaiyalore]

some of you forget that life is about having #fun and being #kind

[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.

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

COOL NEWS. NOT SHIT NEWS.

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

While ribose was present, deoxyribose (the DNA sugar) was not. This suggests RNA may have been more prevalent than DNA in the early solar system – supporting the “RNA world” hypothesis that DNA was not necessary for the origin of life.

[addison raetheon @ITARviolation]

how it feels to read anything about San Francisco on this app

[Will Calligan @TheWillyCally]

@CFCDaily Palmer in the 4-3… come on

[John Gibbons @johngibbonsblog]

I sometimes feel like stepping away from Twitter, but then you’ve got a former Sun journalist having a row with a pie

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

Ummmm no I don’t watch “Instagram Reels.” I have TikTok. I like to get my brain damage directly from the original source

[marc @feelingsplain]

The music industry is so finished lad what do you mean your concert has a Nespresso presale