I'm finna tell yall why @Google fired me- their MOST successful diversity recruiter in the history of their company- with the receipts to support that statement.
Are we still obsessing over the mythical big data? Because the real problem in most orgs is 50000000 very small data sets, some barely maintained, loosely tied together between wiki, jira, slack, google drive, bigquery, postgres, zendesk, salesforce, and a bunch of excels.
Much of what’s being sold as "AI" today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we can recognize flawed AI claims, and push back. Here are my annotated slides: https://t.co/iCpyFw5urN
People who buy into Scala as "better Java" will soon find themselves realizing it's neither. Worse tooling, cryptic errors, slower build times, lacking interop.
If you're already paying the Scala tax, learn to use the strengths of the language.
It’s a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work.
Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact.
Always remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.