Tag: technology
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“Team Topologies” (Book Review)
In 2019 Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais published “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow”. The book sheds a light on four fundamental team types: Stream-Aligned Teams: A stream-aligned team is a team aligned to a single, valuable stream of work; this might be a single product or service, a single set…
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Pi (Product Review)
My summary of Pi before using it – Pi is a personal AI. I’m unsure about what that means eaxctly. How does Pi explain itself in the first minute? “Pi, your personal AI” is what it says in the App Store. There are examples of the kind of questions and pieces of advice that I…
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Arc (Product Review)
My summary of Arc before using it – Recently, I heard Josh Miller – CEO & Co-Founder of The Browser Company – talk about Arc, a new web browser that is taking on established browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome. How does Arc explain itself in the first minute? On the website…
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Google’s MusicLM (Product Review)
Listening to some of the music samples generated by text, and you get a good idea of what Google’s MusicLM has been designed to do. Here you can find 30-second snippets created from descriptions that list a genre, specific instruments or a vibe. MusicLM uses a large dataset of unlabelled music and captions from MusicCaps…
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Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology
Ever heard of Melvin Kranzberg? Kranzberg (1917 – 1995) was a professor of history of technology at Georgia Tech. Kranzberg is best known for his Six Laws of Technology: Whilst created back in 1986, Kranzberg’ six laws of technology still very much hold true today. I’ll elaborate on some of these laws and highlight their…
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