Nico Appel

Augmenting People & Upgrading Team Operations

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

@KevKubernetes Everybody everywhere is automating some of the work all of the time.
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Every sentence in this piece is worth about a dozen questions.

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

@KevKubernetes I think that is called walking it back.

Headline: "Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers"
First paragraph: "Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do. "
Emphasis "automate some of"

Yo, I can "automate some of" anything

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

@KevKubernetes I'm frankly disappointed @KevKubernetes. Not sure if that is simply you relaying what Google told you, but I would expect some more critical questions here.

That newsletter I received from you just reads a bad press release.

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Unlikely this is going to work

[Brad Feld @bfeld]

A Week of Claude Code Insights

https://t.co/exjk2NXcFj

#AdventuresInClaude #ClaudeCode

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

@george__mack What are you trying to achieve?

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

@jburnmurdoch @threadreaderapp unroll

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

@voicenotesai @jijosunny @voicenotesai could you add the ability to record system audio on Mac? It would be so much easier to be able to capture this.
Any plans on adding that?

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

You know what I’m missing working on my digital devices?
Knobs, mostly.
Switches also.

Would love to turn this on and off.
Crank some shit up.

In my mind, I work like this guy https://t.co/pTHFNHIKCE

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

This is what happens when I hang out at the spa.

https://t.co/WV6yQqw0XE

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

I was able to develop one line jotted in my notebook into a 5-article series.

Part 1 is done: https://t.co/34bc4JFyum

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Having children is a good reason to have therapy.
And at the same time it’s very therapeutic.

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

In 1882, Nietzsche started using a typewriter because he was going blind. Then something unexpected happened: his writing style changed.

"Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts," he wrote to a friend.

What are modern tools doing to our minds?

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Two kinds of content creators:
- Those seeking ideas
- Those drowning in too many ideas

I'm in the second camp.

My challenge isn't finding topics—it's processing the input, the thoughts, insights and connections faster than they slip away.

https://t.co/cDyWLp2wcJ

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Effectiveness = getting the right things done.

That’s pretty hard, actually.
But it can be learned. That is our hypothesis.

I am working on this myself and I am creating a framework based on The Effective Executive (Peter Drucker) for my clients.

https://t.co/4KOuPr3WBr

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Most platforms are designed to pull us in. Keep us engaged.

It’s their core mechanism, and it works remarkably well.

Knowledge workers are drowning in notifications, constantly processing incoming information streams.

https://t.co/H5wRU9QRe3

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

1. Thx for highlighting who Elon Musk is. Would have missed that.
2. If you are the richest man in the world and your choice of food on AirForce One is McD, I am not sure, (insert Lewis Black shake) but you may have missed a few memos.
3. At least you dine in great company 🫢

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Oh, boy!
o1-preview, what TF is going on?

I'm aware that you shouldn’t even talk with models about this, or needn’t, but it brought it up.

However, this exchange is quite the letdown, isn’t it?

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

'Data doesn’t lie' is by itself a pretty naive statement.

Data is just data.

To get *information* from data, we have to know what it is that we want to be informed about.

Then there is 'data analysis' and, of course, data interpretation. The stories begin there…

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Just sent out a new issue of the AI Solutions Lab newsletter

Observation 1: AI Moves into our Operating System

In which I am working towards the conclusion that these tools are increasingly taking up a central role within our operating systems.

→ https://t.co/PqsQXb2DLm

[Nico Appel @nicoappel]

Most people seem to snap to a particular use case when considering anything related to AI.

Much like the availability bias.

My own experience is rather that there are many points in any kind of workflow where AI can facilitate the step at hand, or replace it.