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Threat modelling

"Threat modeling works to identify, communicate, and understand threats and mitigations within the context of protecting something of value." So they had the election in the US. With hindsight the result isn't surprising. More than half of Americans read below a 6th grade level (Snopes looked

Just call me Gandalf

I’ve given this advice a few times on career progression in Tech: there comes a time when you face a fork in the proverbial road. You either specialise or go down the leadership route. With the leadership route there’s a really good chance you’ll lose ‘hands-on’ technical

You have to own it

“LinkedIn, however, has taken its denial of responsibility a step further: it will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools.” LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that’s your problemArtificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thingThe RegisterThomas Claburn At first

There are good ideas

There is a lot of talk about how to grow the UK economy and regenerate areas. I can’t stop thinking about this place in Florence. I’m just a Tech Fella but I love the direction this went. This is the Cinema Odeon. Originally opened in 1922. As with

Deliciously sweary

The linked post below is a bit (actually very) sweary, Australia eh 🤷‍♂️ It’s good though. I’ve noticed recently if you have a beverage or a chat with a Data scientist* that isn’t part of a Sales team**, this is increasingly becoming the kind of response they’ll

Delicious research

Zitron writes, how I’d like to write. But what I really like about him - is he does the research. Opinions, arguments and critical thinking are so much more powerful if you’ve done the work (I think). Even Google had to respond to one of his pieces. Much

Crazy email

You see a lot of memes about the EV Fella on LinkedIn. Visionary, disruptor etc (some might say…) I read the below and thought of working transformation projects or PE carve outs. Imagine getting an email like that? Cue emergency meetings and a lot of ‘Wth?’ thinking. Read the wild

You should learn to code

The CEO of Nvidia at the end of last month claimed (again) that there was no need to learn to code. AI would take care of it. Unlike Jensen, I could code - a very long time ago. Oh I could have made money in the noughties if I still