This is a copy of a thread I posted on Mastodon. For background, a rage thread is developing around the rumored launch by Meta of an app that is said to be interoperable with Mastodon, and a bunch of its current users aren’t happy of the prospect. Today, fedi has…

I’m kind of preoccupied today by the current events in Ukraine, but I figured to write down my thoughts on last night’s (my time) WWDC announcements anyway. Starting with the “one more thing”, of course. Vision Pro The first of first impressions posts have come out, and the people who have got…

I recently saw some new thinking from Alex Osterwalder, who’s best known for introducing the Business Model Canvas in his book Business Model Generation. In this presentation he argues that on the uncertain new development side of what he calls the Explore-Exploint continuum, OKR (objectives and key results) is not…

I wrote this thread a short while back and figured I should edit it for posterity here. It’s from two decades ago, but I promise, it’s relevant for this age where we’re again trying to grasp how online communities work. In the summer of 2003, I was hired to run…

(This one exceptionally in Finnish, because it documents a Finnish-language experiment with Bing Chat. Also, testing just-released Medium ability to embed Mastodon posts, since this begun as a thread there.) Puolueiden annettua vastauksensa Petteri Orpon hallitustunnustelukysymyksiin, ajattelin tehdä kokeen, kuinka GPT syntetisoisi aikaan hallitusohjelman. Periaatteessa tämä tapahtuisi siten, että suomea…

TL;DR; something other than intelligence, but it’s increasingly unpredictable, what exactly. Consistent results are possible, but require a design effort — and automated language-based systems will need more components than just the language model. It’s fair to say that everyone, including this author, have been gobsmacked by the emergent capabilities…

I’ve been working on the interface between computer systems and people ever since I got my first computer, the Commodore 64, a scary number of years ago. Clearly, we’ve come a long way in technical capabilities and systems complexity since then! Yhe other side of the equation hasn’t changed, though…

Some quick advise for new Me.dm users Medium’s Mastodon instance seems to be on a roll, with 8.9k new accounts as I write this. I had a quick look at the recent profiles, and here’s a bit of advise based on what I saw: Medium auto-adds your blog’s address to…

A short time ago I had an opportunity to get to know a team where delivery had become a problem. Projects weren’t meeting their deadlines and the results were underwhelming. Why was this happening, I was asked. Could I work with the team to figure out what’s wrong and how…