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If you’re looking for an example of AI going rogue, you don’t have to go far, you only need to look at Apple and Goldman Sach’s recent problems with their Credit Card Scoring. And let’s not forget Microsoft’s Twitter AI Bot. Is AI bad? No. But like anything, like humans, delivering to the one, to the few, to a group, to a company is a significantly different proposition then delivering to a province, a state,…

Fast forward to 2:45 – where Ramsay says to the chef – “They more work and effort you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong.” – I’m paraphrasing out some of the pieces about food but the sentiment is exactly the same in anything you are doing – coding, writing, sports, whatever it is. The more you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong. I love this line because…

The next time you’re invited to a Pre Meeting Meeting make sure you openly ask if this is the “Pre Meeting Meeting”. For some, this will be a negative deterrent to make this meeting the only meeting that needs to happen and the other meeting is not required. At the end of this meeting, there will be cheers that the second meeting is not required and we have “received an hour back” of our time.…

If you were to go on a 5 hour drive, pull over every 10 minutes, shut your car off, restart it and get back on your journey, the journey would inevitably take you that much longer. The constant, stopping, starting, stopping, restarting will eventually slow you down, frustrate you and make you question what you are doing. (See parents on their first journey with kids who are not used to the constant stopping and starting…

Means nothing. This is the same as saying any of the following. “We need to be marketing.” “We need to be business.” “We need to be coding.” All this statement is, is a clear identification that you don’t know what the topic means, why you feel it and what your team needs. Some better statements… “We need to deliver software faster.” “We need to bring our product managers closer into the fold.” “We need to…