Perspective on Israel’s tech economy, with Joshua Burgin

Really enjoyed this conversation with the Jerusalem Post & can’t wait for my next visit

www.jpost.com/special-content/perspect...

Unraveling the Myth of Incentive Plans Understanding the Complexities of Human Motivation

If you're interested in learning more about the psychology of motivation, or if you're looking for ways to improve productivity in your organization, then check out my latest piece

joshuaburgin.substack.com/p/unraveling-the-myth-of...

#incentives #motivation #productivity

How to be a Great Leader Career Advice for Managers

Wrote a post on my perspective on how to be a great leader for my first substack post

joshuaburgin.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-great-lead...

My latest blog post "Generative AI: A Product Leader's Guide" contains practical tips aimed at product leaders to ensure the Gen AI features you add are thoughtful and see wide adoption

https://octo.vmware.com/gen-ai-a-product-leaders-guide/

#AI #ProductLeadership #Innovation #GenerativeAI

Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work When reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it.

This HBR piece from 1993 persuasively argues that incentive plans don't & can’t work. Absent some level of ongoing outside review/input, I see Gen AI failing the same way - achieving what they’re incented to do, but missing the overall goals

https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work

Finally got an invite code and opened our community handle @tlv.community !! 🥳🔥🥳

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BottleRock - amazing as always! Until next year

In the social media system the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The losers who instigate the stupidity, and the haters who persecute the offenders. These are their stories… <dun-dun>

I feel that developers should no longer be allowed to work on AI until they can build a video-conferencing system that doesn’t blow up 50% of meetings

Sometime I should tell you about how, as a young programmer, I brought down the amazon dot com web site back in 1998 in a similar fashion (hidden issue with a bad config, simultaneous reboots, etc)

A warmup puck fresh off the ice, a game 6 win to keep the playoffs alive, and my daughter’s wish for a fish came true!

#seakraken #nhl #playoffhockey #releasethekraken

I’ve largely done the same (I leave Uber on). I’ve turned off all notifications on the watch too. It’s remarkable how much this reduces your excess phone distraction. Observing people who leave every default notification turned on I end up SMDH at how they live with that level of interruption

Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.

This is a great piece from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com two main takeaways: 1) Monitoring your costs is a practice you need to have at all times; 2) It's seductive but rarely as easy or cheap as it seems to "build it yourself" esp when you think long-term about what business you're actually in

Microsoft skips pay hikes this year amid sharp focus on AI Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year, citing tough economic conditions, but will continue with its bonuses, stock awards and promotions.

Freezing salaries is better than more layoffs, but can see why it's hard to square with billions in profits & stock rising (benefits execs disproportionately). MSFT execs have failed to build trust, so this doesn't feel like they're "in it together" with staff

Round 2, Game 4 - Let’s Go Kraken!