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Sep 11, 2025
The Hustle Delusion: Trapped on a Team Trip to Burnout
Is your team trapped on a road trip to Burnoutville, fueled by the gospel of the "grind"? This article unpacks the "Hustle Delusion," a classic Abilene Paradox where everyone agrees to a miserable journey nobody wants. Discover how this collective illusion tricks smart people into performing exhaustion and why the real hero isn't the one who works latest, but the one brave enough to pull the emergency brake.
Culture
Sep 8, 2025
Don't Ask for Recipes in a Warming Pot
We are clicking "Agree" on the erosion of our own freedoms, trading liberty for the convenience of a user-friendly interface. Tyranny rarely arrives with a thunderclap; it shows up as a series of small, reasonable-sounding updates that normalize the unthinkable. The warning is to read society's "patch notes," because the proverbial frog in the pot doesn't get a user satisfaction survey before it gets boiled.
Culture
Jul 8, 2025
The Architect's Guide to Production Vector Search with Vertex AI and Cloud Run
Building smart AI apps with semantic search or RAG is accessible, but making them fast, scalable, and cost-effective is the real challenge. This Google Cloud guide helps architects and engineers achieve that. It explores Vertex AI's embedding models, such as gemini-embedding-001, demonstrating how model choice affects performance and cost. The guide also covers RAG and semantic search patterns, emphasizing the optimization of embeddings for specific tasks. You'll learn about efficient vector similarity search using tools like Faiss and ScaNN, and gain a blueprint for deploying workloads on Google Cloud Run, along with best practices for minimizing latency. A FastAPI application example provides a complete, production-ready solution.
Technology
Nov 9, 2023
Hedgehogs and their technology platforms
How did successful companies apply their Hedgehog Concepts in their enterprise-scale technology implementations? Let’s discuss the one big thing I learned from my experience partnering with business leaders to deploy technology platforms for sustainable business growth.
Technology
Nov 10, 2023
Hey you! Yes, you, human being!
AI and machine learning are only as smart as the people behind them. Don’t just entrust your career development to your employer. It is a very personal thing, and you should have an active role in yours because you are the one who should benefit from such a plan, not anyone else.
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