Posts tagged with Learning
Review: The Skill Code
A couple months ago, I went on the CTO Confessions podcast. In one of the segments, we talked about the impending—or already developing—problem of the shrinking talent pipeline. With agentic AI, senior engineers are now expected to manage…
Executing Organizational Cartography
A few years back, during my early days at Affirm, a couple of us engineering leaders[1] were trying and struggling to orchestrate a reorg across our teams. There were a number of strong personalities to manage and key communications…
Review: The Last Lecture
On my bookshelf, there's one shelf that I keep a couple of my favorite books, and on occasion, I rotate one book out for another as I finish a hard copy of a book that really stuck with…
Aspirational AI Utility
I've been reading Brave New Worlds. It's a book by Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, on how Generative AI will change the way students learn and teachers teach, leveraging tools like ChatGPT as…
Strong Opinions, Strongly Held
The aphorism is "strong opinions, weakly held." Now, I've always been skeptical of what, on its face, is a contradiction. At best, it's useful as rhetorical insurance, allowing its claimant to avoid the consequences…
Pulling Up vs. Pushing Down
We're now 2+ years into the tech downturn. Companies, with or without AI as a driver, continue to announce major layoffs, seemingly every month or two. No one advocates for teaching everyone to code anymore. While it was…
