I said tech conferences are worth every hour and the sessions are not. Nobody argued about the sessions. They wrote about money instead, and five questions arrived.
Emoji Are Obsolete
Emoji are obsolete. There, I have written it. I do not entirely believe it.
A few days ago I wrote to a client: “We need to talk about the index strategy.”
The Job That Was Never There
The job that was never there is the hardest one to explain. After the last post, my inbox filled up for four days. The hardest messages were not from people who had lost a job.
Who Is Going to Do My Job Now?
Who is going to do my job now. That was the question in an email that arrived at 4:41 this morning, from a man who gave sixteen years to one company and handed his laptop back before lunch yesterday.
What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day
What AI thinks a DBA does all day is a calm, orderly, deeply reassuring Tuesday. It has backups, documentation, proactive health checks, and apparently a door that closes. I asked. Then I wrote down my actual Tuesday. Its day has six items. Mine has thirteen.
AI Bubble: I Hope It Pops
The AI bubble I hope will pop is the one I am standing inside, holding a book, a consulting practice, and the survival instincts of a cartoon coyote who has just looked down.
Your Second Skill Was Never a Parachute
Your second skill was never a parachute, and the proof is six hundred years old. Understanding why that effort failed is the clearest way to understand what is happening to our own careers today.