I live in a city where a certain LRT implementation has gone off the rails. It’s not going well. One day it will recover, but until then, all the problems we are currently encountering will continue as we all hold on for the growing pains that are sure to come with it. That’s where Technical Debt hurts us – not in the code being old, obsolete or hard to maintain – but in the people,…
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,…
Learning something new will never go away. Your industry will change, the people will change, the path you are on will change, everything will change. You will never be done learning. It doesn’t mean you have to spend a full day at work and then another full day in the evening learning to “stay on top of things”. It does mean you need to realize there is a path to get to what you learn,…
First steps make second steps possible. Start walking, then you can run. Code before you compile. Learn before you teach. Read someone’s work before you ask questions. Work on your problem before seeing other’s help. Say thank you before your welcome. Try before you give up. The first step is always needed before you get to the second, it’s the hardest to take, it’s the one we hold back on because the second step looks…
If you are in a meeting and haven’t taken your eyes off your phone or laptop – you probably didn’t need to be there. It’s a simple barometer check to see if you are providing value or losing time to finish wh