I encountered a passage in Peter Drucker’s “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done” that describes the best way to evaluate employees. He recommends that you do not evaluate your team based on the traditional approach of identifying and coaching strengths and weaknesses. Instead, Drucker insists that you rather focus …
I am officially done with my core MBA classes and getting ready to start my Capstone courses. I have no idea what that means. The two courses themselves will be back to back this summer. They are taught by two professors I’ve had in the past so I know what to expect from them. This …
A popular question to post in r/askReddit pertains to how future generations may judge our generation on everyday decisions that we make. Think of this in the light of future revelations that may come to be where people wonder “why did they do that”? Think of lead in gasoline and that effect on IQ in …
A major story by WSJ revealed that OpenAI missed key revenue and user targets. I am starting to wonder what scenario would cause an AI bubble if there was one, and the answer lies in whether or not financial projections keep up with the debt loads being taken on to build out data centers. It …
This is just a neat video about an interesting man’s home. George Nakashima built a Japanese style home and workshop in Pennsylvania. Born in Spokane, grew up as a Boy Scout, graduate MIT, travelled around the world to Europe and India, where he taught people how to build reinforced concrete. Back at home, he and …
I completed a Pluralsight course to understand REST Fundamentals. It was an interesting session as it taught about how APIs work. Some of the topics included the REST verbs like GET, DELETE, POST, PUT/PATCH. It talked about the error codes used, like 200 for success and 400 for client error. We also reviewed endpoints, authentication, …
The next iteration of OpenAI’s AI model is available and it sounds like they are including some of the functionality of OpenClaw into it. This particular quote from their press release makes me think this is the case and the fruit of their partnering/hiring Peter Steinberger, inventor of the open-source project. GPT‑5.5 understands what you’re …
Cursor, the AI driven IDE, may be purchased by SpaceX at some point in 2026. The idea would be that SpaceX, when it goes public, could use investment dollars to catch up with AI competitors and this is a play to strengthen it. I admit, I do not foresee how an AI wrapper masquerading as …
I, like most people, found the images created in ChatGPT to be fun, but ultimately once the novelty wore off didn’t find much use for them. This next release creates images that are fairly hard to tell as real or not. I am already struggling with it. I had my first realization I couldn’t always …
John Ternus will now be the new CEO of Apple, replacing Tim Cook, who will be come Executive Chairman. This is an interesting development in the leadership pipeline. Tim Cook is a famous supply chain expert, and he’s been able to squeeze the most profit he can out of Apple because of it. I am …