If Amazon can do this accurately, then they will also able to understand how clothes will fit more accurately than anybody else (including the customer). Something I suggested years ago >

Amazon Halo body fat percentage calculator outperforms lab devices https://t.co/0AU9IuIOlY

Last November, I published a very long piece about the challenges of deploying #automation for everything in a large IT environment, often hidden behind the term #noops >

NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future https://t.co/gI7RBY2nVJ https://t.co/AgkmNXNrJv

@0xF2 Assassin’s Creed is the only game I religiously play every year on the PlayStation. Played all of them. Absolutely love it.

@rationalpsyche So you would ditch the automatic gear in cars and return to the very first type ever produced if it promises you 10x performance?

A tech that must be more complicated to achieve better outcomes is poorly designed. Tesla, Apple, and Amazon have taught abundant lessons about this

@rationalpsyche Embracing a technology that is more complicated than the previous one is a selfish act. Because of its higher cost of entry, in the long term, it only hurts the business.

@rationalpsyche I have to disagree here. Every time you adopt a new technology that is more complicated than the one it’s supposed to replace, you have missed an opportunity to reduce complexity.

Shiny new toys shouldn’t be accepted just so somebody can feel empowered by “mastering the beast”.

Data lakes (among the others), I’m looking at you.

In large enterprise different groups often go through the same challenges in evaluating & adopting tech One group is ahead of the others and its people learned a lot. Yet, lack of communication prevents that wisdom to be shared across the company and avoid repeating mistakes

When the complexity bar to master technology raises, you have to ask who’s going to benefit from it. It’s the one that has access to the most talented technologists and the resources to pay them.

Reducing the complexity of technology means democratizing its adoption.

What is the book that changed your life? (not novels or religious texts)

Asked on Jun 15, 2021