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Andy Walker
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Feb 9

Dear AI hype train, stop confusing novel for useful

ChatGPT is coming for Google Search, or is it? At the moment it’s hard to read anything on the Internet without coming across some article or another proclaiming that search is about to be changed forever. The culprit is ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that has thrown up some…

Tech

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Dear AI hype train, stop confusing novel for useful
Dear AI hype train, stop confusing novel for useful
Tech

9 min read


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The Modern Scientist

·Feb 2

Why companies stop innovating

How leaders create a culture of stagnation by failing to appreciate their role Recently, a friend sent me an article about how leaders within big tech were trying to recapture the early startup spirit. It included trigger phrases for me like “being scrappy” and “be like a startup” and, to…

Leadership

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Why companies stop innovating
Why companies stop innovating
Leadership

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Better Programming

·Jan 31

Motivation for Engineering Organisations

Are you trying to land someone on the moon or build a pyramid? — Understanding how people in your team or organisation are motivated is important and the traditional mechanisms for motivating people don’t well as we think they do. My rough rule of thumb is that if you can effectively motivate people then not only are they upwards of 3 times more effective…

Leadership

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Motivation for Engineering Organisations
Motivation for Engineering Organisations
Leadership

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Better Programming

·Jan 30

What Are Google’s Leaders Teaching?

Leadership is learning but what lessons are being learned? — As both a former manager and a (current) parent one of the things that has struck me about both roles is that people are constantly learning from you. They are learning how to act, they are learning a set of values and they are learning a set of skills. As…

Leadership

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What Are Google’s Leaders Teaching?
What Are Google’s Leaders Teaching?
Leadership

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Jan 26

How to make layoffs less awful

Principles for being involved in disruptive and difficult change One of the questions I got after writing my opinion on the cultural and leadership failure that is the layoff process at Google was to ask me what I would have done differently. I’m going to reiterate this now before I…

Google

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How to make layoffs less awful
How to make layoffs less awful
Google

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Jan 25

After the layoffs

Understanding the impact of layoffs and how you can help mitigate some of them I wrote an article yesterday about the Google layoffs which garnered way more attention than I expected. After it I’ve spoken to a lot of people who’ve shared their experience. A sense of devastation like being…

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After the layoffs
After the layoffs

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Jan 24

Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership

How did the company that aspired to be so much more come to this? Recently, Google announced it was laying off approximately 6% of its workforce (or 12,000 people). This brings it in line with most of the rest of the tech industry. The reason given by a publicly contrite…

Google

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Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
Google

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Nov 25, 2022

An Opportunity for Twitter

How the revolution at Twitter may give them the chance to break their chains. Or not. Like many people I’m curious about the ongoing train crash that is Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. The first part of this is the human carnage being wrought as the company is dismantled and…

Twitter

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An Opportunity for Twitter
An Opportunity for Twitter
Twitter

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Nov 23, 2022

Decision Making and You

How the way you go about decision making as a leader either cripples or enables your organisation One of the most important roles a leader has is in being part of an effective decision making process. You’ll notice here that I’m not saying “making decisions” which is important but only…

Leadership

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Decision Making and You
Decision Making and You
Leadership

8 min read


Nov 3, 2022

Ask, Show or Tell

A simple hierarchy for influencing people Thoughout our personal and professional lives we communicate to influence people of a particular view point or course of action. The trouble is we’re not very good at it. It kind of isn’t our fault because we grow up being exposed to the least…

Leadership

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Ask, Show or Tell
Ask, Show or Tell
Leadership

6 min read

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Interested in solving complex problems without complexity and self sustaining self improving organisations.

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