Amiable Curmudgeon

Me, myself, and my horrible sense of humor...

[Amiable Curmudgeon @DonAnton]

@savanna_ug Your internet is the worst. I can’t be spending my time each day contacting you to adjust the speed.

[Amiable Curmudgeon @DonAnton]

@Tu_ZA_ @Urunzii @grok Additional context Kenya has a 8year importation age limit. So if the car was bought in 2019 it might be a 2011-2014 car that might explain the devaluation.

[Timmy | Evolution @timmyisagod]

Real

[RecruitmentPQ @RecruitmentPq]

If you're starting over in a new field at 35, 40, 45, read this slowly:

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Amiable Curmudgeon @DonAnton]

@RKosiom Enjoy the journey and next time plan to go to Western part of Uganda it’s beautiful . Just done the reverse from Kampala to Nairobi on a Honda Fit Hybrid.

[Jonathan Graham ☀️ @iamdailycourage]

@Daily_MailUS Human nature is undefeated.

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

BREAKING: Tim Cook steps down. Ternus to CEO.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“behind mountains are more mountains.”

[Nicholas Charriere @nichochar]

I think we are witnessing the biggest explosion in software creation in history.

New website creation is up 40% year on year. New iOS apps are up nearly 50%. GitHub code pushes in the US jumped 35% and in the UK around 30%.

All of these metrics were flat for years before late 2024. The entire graph looks like a hockey stick.

You no longer need a six month runway and a dev team to ship something real.

We see this in our metrics as well!

People who never wrote a line of code are building and launching apps.

The barrier to building software just disappeared.

What matters now is knowing what to build and the taste to build it right.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Just do things…

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

Zeno was a prosperous merchant...who lost it all. Seneca was exiled...then brought back as the emperor's advisor. Marcus Aurelius was selected for the throne...but had to wait 23 years.

A Stoic accepts good things without arrogance, shrugs off misfortune with indifference.

[Amiable Curmudgeon @DonAnton]

@qataharraymond It sounded more like fiction and an attempt to whitewash his former boss.

[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.

[Tola @adetolaov]

Agency is such a powerful gift. That realisation that you can decide that you want to have a different kind of life, or be a better/different person and just go out and make that happen.

Simple, yet powerful.

[Machina @EXM7777]

how to force your brain to do HARD things:

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

The reason you procrastinate is because you are a victim of the 'paradox of choice'

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Men become more caring when they become girldads.

Data on >12k CEOs: After having a firstborn daughter, men spend 10% more on social responsibility initiatives—especially culture, inclusion, and the environment. They also pay female employees better.

Daughters activate empathy.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this…

[Slimfit @iSlimfit]

Someone shared this on IG and I completely agree. 💯

You need to be audacious to attain certain heights in life. 👇