Almost a year later, I remain highly sceptical of audio-only rooms. But if you really want to try one, use @Twitter Spaces. If you are reading this, you already have all you need. It’s frictionless. Not a new app to download, not a new provider to share data with, big audience.

1/ One too-often forgotten dynamic: the success of an infrastructure-focused company with an emerging tech invariably depends on the success of that tech at the application level.

2/ Ex: who decides to make tooling for #AI is doomed to fail if AI doesn’t deliver in relevant business cases.

3/ You can create all the amazing data pipelines and ML platforms you want but if #AI disappoints in use cases that matter for the LoB people (that know nothing about AI/ML) your days are numbered.

4/ That’s why it’s against the best interests of infrastructure-focused companies to blindly focus on their comfort zone and ignore things like industry verticals, business metrics, non-tech users.

Replace #AI with any emerging tech. The mistake is endlessly repeated.

The top hat emerged in Western fashion by the end of the 18th century (when gentlemen started replacing their tricorne with it). It declined by the time of the counterculture of the 1960s.

I bet many couldn’t see the appeal or value of the top hat and assumed it would be a fad.

“You can count on one hand the number of teams in the world that could create something like that,” said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which found the malware and brought it to Apple’s attention.

https://t.co/n9SvuGP2Mj

@jeffsussna @sallamar Chapter 2 (after a fascinating debunking of the myth of barter): https://t.co/tVK4BTULaD

Don’t let a tech define your identity. 1st: you’ll become overly biased, spending all your time misinterpreting criticism as personal attacks instead of opportunities to improve the tech. 2nd: long-term your career will suffer immensely. As we evolve and move on you’ll get stuck.

In last 2y I got an ocean of people reaching out for career advice. Well, this is an exceptional job opportunity. You could learn a tremendous amount from Lydia, and everything listed below is true (despite what poorly informed people say).

Gartner has been exceptional for me. https://t.co/ZkKsGB0gV4