You need to get a cycling system going where you keep only he best ones worth re-reading and let the world have the others. I give mine to the library or the church thrift store, but you could sell them too
🎼What would you do
If my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
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What is playing?
#djshantha
#musicsky
#music
#'90s
Let me know what your experiences have been with this. What other agile practices you have brought into a blended way of working?
It’s super easy to try and super difficult to do well, and that is what I like most
I’m using the improvement kata along with a Kanban system to explore more meaningful ways to define productivity. This practice has helped me to define goals in more actionable ways.
🌞Good morning! I have been recently
Inspired by Jochen Krebs’s book “Agile Kata” that builds on the work of Mike Rother and Toyota kata.
I’ve been deep diving on these ideas lately and am liking the simplicity and flexibility.
You don’t need a daily standup if your team collaborates at a higher frequency than daily.
Collaborate more. Meet less.
This is a nice quote:
"I’ve concluded that the measure of my life is my capacity to love imperfect people. People like me."
Can Bluesky be a better social media platform?
The competition is not really that good, even disturbing.
I wish Bluesky success.
Can you think of a richer form of communication between humans than in person, face to face?
Happy Independence Day!
Here’s to enjoying freedom, adaptability, and resilience—on this holiday and in our work. Hope you’re celebrating with people who inspire you!
#IndependenceDay #Agility
About our climate
youtu.be/A24fWmNA6lM
Hello friends and happy Friday morning 🌞
Here is a message from the past from The Who — enjoy!
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Like the pomegranate tree, I rely on systemic support to achieve my goal. In the same way it needs good soil, sunlight, rain, I need good government policies and market conditions that support small businesses. The tree has survived a storm. It remains healthy even in adversity.
If I’m fortunate, I will be able to bring in enough business to support other people and their families, so that they can thrive and set aside a good percentage for a rainy day or for their retirement.
Like the tree, I am bringing all my energy into supporting a mission: to bring in income for my family so that we can thrive in this economy. Enough income to set aside a good percentage to invest and allow us to thrive when a day comes that I am no longer able to work.
This is a pomegranate from a tree that suffered some damage in hurricane Milton last October. It’s the only one. There is one fruit on this tree. When I see it, I think of resilience and systemic support. The whole tree is supporting this one fruit.
NIH is asking: How do we develop AI tools for medical research while protecting patient data? Your expertise matters - researchers, clinicians, developers, and public all encouraged to respond by July 15.
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Lovely colors!
Writing without LLMs?
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
If you are a naturally curious person, and have developed a good habit of being able to ask clear and focused questions, then you will flourish as the world transforms to AI-driven knowledge work.
How does your process differ from this?
Do you have a better way?
I also preserve the prompts that I find most useful, so that I can run them again. I expect the data to be dynamic, and sometimes I'm seeking to notice differences. I also expect that the functionality and usefulness of the various LLMs will change over time.
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Introspecting on this…
✔️ My process is similar to TDD, but not exactly.
✔️ Using two personas is similar to a red team / blue team scenario, but not exactly.
✔️ I think of my go-to LLM providing the summary statement as a “release”. It's a useable increment of work.
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4) Either ask the LLM for a brief summary if I have what I came in for, or repeat step 3, bringing in the new knowledge.
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3) Continue the interactions with my favored LLM.
* First ask open questions using the open persona
* Then reign in, asking from the POV of the skeptical critic
* Do other research if warranted, in parallel with the chat.
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1) Craft a hypothesis — my own response to the problem, based on what I already understand, and any gut feelings I have.
2) Use the initial responses from one LLM to refine my prompt, and then plug it into my go-to LLM.
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My process for bigger questions is to use multiple LLMs together with personas, and it goes like this...
I define and interact from the POV of one of two personas: one is totally open, and one is a skeptical critic.
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