Ob"All mushrooms are edible, but some of them are only edible _ONCE_."

Why are the people in power against building systems that would make money and save lives? It’s almost like…they’re trying to do something other than making money and saving lives. A secret third thing! What could it be??

I really like lots of applications for machine learning - and tech generally - in the sciences! We should have a wide and deep field of human experts wielding all the tech. More experts, with more expertise! The positive outcomes of this approach would be vast and varied. They’d even be profitable.

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Sometimes a team finds a better way of working. Delivery improves, but the change often stays within that team. As organisations grow, the conversation often moves to how teams interact. If you're exploring this challenge, you can read more here → https://teamtopologies.com/scale

The biggest April Fool's joke? Using AI to generate more output quicker instead of reshaping the flow of value in teams and systems. Multi-billion dollar joke... 🤡🤡🤡 #AI #AprilFool

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To be fair my impression is that in the Victorian era everyone spoke exclusively via sycophantic if passive aggressive flattery?

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Scaling starts to change when your thinking as a leader does. I shared a perspective in a Forbes Business Council piece on staying curious, understanding how work really shows up, and not rushing to simplify. Worth a read 👉

Huh, I attempted some jazz chords on the piano 🎹 and ... actually enjoyed it 😆 Send help 🛟

"I believe that enshittification is doing something real and important, and the feminist and decolonial traditions have tools that could make it more powerful, more accurate, and more honest about whose experiences it centers." 🎯

"for many users, digital systems did not begin in service and then decay into domination; domination was the design premise. " 🎯

'Whose experience of platform decay is centered in the enshittification story? Whose experience is supplementary? When we talk about the internet "getting worse," what baseline of "better" are we implicitly invoking, and for whom was it better?' 🎯

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about that here: tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi... #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

The Department of This Operation.

For those wondering, the ship in that video is the Joseph Roty II - a French factory ship producing surimi. Or as it's better known in UK food culture at least, crab sticks. And if you've ever wondered what's in a crab stick, it starts with no crab and gets worse from there...

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

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How clearly is your organisation’s “why” reflected in daily decisions? For us, it’s a simple North Star: the number of empowered teams we help shape. When the purpose is clear, people act on it. You can learn more here → https://teamtopologies.com

So, a $20,000 Shaheed took out a $300,000,000 AWACS? A Trump dollar out the pocket of every American.

Christ, I'm a GS-12 tree-hugging park ranger-bureaucrat who's never been closer to the military than when I did a j-school story about the 1-184th at Camp Parks. my understanding of martial affairs is built on reading, wargaming, and memes. and yet I could do a better job than Pete fucking Hegseth.

The entire psychology of what goes on in the classroom is thrown out by this robot model. Friendships between students. Being inspired by a good teacher.

“.. even if the conflict is wound down within weeks, fertiliser disruption alone would cause US food inflation to rise from around 2 per cent to 4 per cent year on year. If fighting drags into the summer, she warns, the increase could reach double digits.” www.ft.com/content/27e0...

"Once the war began, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Or rather, insurance companies closed it. Iran just had to make threats and show that it could deliver on them, the realities of modern actuarial ecosystems did the rest." 🔥🔥🔥

There’s going to be a shortage of helium critical for hospital MRI machines and for manufacturing advanced chips like those from NVIDIA Corp after damage to a major gas facility in Qatar, Bloomberg reports. Fees will also rise. Suppliers are prioritising healthcare.

We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...

If you want to understand how your teams actually work together, it helps to look at the interactions between them. The Team Topologies assessment is designed to do exactly that. Explore it here → https://teamtopologies.com/assessments

‘What actually got people through emergencies - in the blitz, in floods, in foot and mouth, in 7/7 - was not the official machinery. It was the fabric of community that existed underneath it, and often despite it.’ Great from @pollymackenzie.bsky.social howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

Authors: file your Anthropic Settlement claims! Really! 1. They should have paid you! 2. Even if you would not ever have licensed your material to these people, this is a chance to take /real cash/ out of their pockets -- not speculative valuation on some invented multiple, /currency/

The obvious explanation here is brazen corruption “President Trump has moved markets with sudden shifts in policy, from tariff U-turns to military strikes. On several occasions, unusual trades hit the tape ahead of his announcements.” www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Teams often try to improve delivery by adding more tools. But progress can still feel slow. Often the issue is cognitive load. Team Topologies, 2nd Edition, explores the link between the fast flow of work and bounded cognitive load More here → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

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The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.

Raul Rivera yelling outside Mamdani presser. Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in NYC, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.” “We need to make this a city where it's affordable enough to yell at your politicians.”

Middle management isn’t disappearing. In many places, it’s evolving. Less focus on supervising people, more on shaping how teams work. Setting priorities, defining boundaries, and removing friction. Close to the ideas in Team Topologies → https://teamtopologies.com

“Ignoring climate policy diminishes the ability to defend” - German science council reminds German government that climate policy is increasingly also security policy. Forderung von Sachverständigen – Klimapolitik als Teil von Sicherheitspolitik share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

So the highest thing in Trafalgar Square is an Ottoman military honour, gifted by a Muslim sultan to a British admiral, commemorating a specific victory — and Nelson thought enough of it to wear it above everything else. 6/8

🔴Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/24/r...

I was at QCon London last week speaking about Team Topologies and AI. It came down to this: if you want teams to use AI effectively, they need to be set up to act with clarity and ownership. Where is this working for you, and where is it slowing down? 👇

New acronym just dropped: JGAT Just Getting A Tea 🫖 This will avoid significant hand strain for me when typing in Slack 😂 (Perhaps local to the UK?!) #jgat

The idea that technology, like AI, deskills us is not a surprise. I learned cursive at school, my father learned how to use a slide rule. Neither skill is widely mourned. What is important is whether we will make deliberate choices about what skills to keep & which they will be.

“Should I get paid when you steal my identity?” “Only if you vibe code your avatar yourself.”

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

Just published in Forbes Business Council: why transformation sticks or stalls. Most efforts don’t fail on strategy, they fail on conditions. Read my article here ➡️ https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2026/03/11/driving-sustainable-transformations-the-prerequisites-for-success/

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one

I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

9) Here is the Hatozla NW Website. The loss of four ambulances will have a significant effect on their ability to operate. If you're able to donate something - anything - please consider it - hatzolanw.org Thank you. Thread ends.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.