Welcome to Sleepless Links! This is my (sometimes) regular collection of things that I’ve read recently that I’ve found interesting and thought-provoking. I’ve let my publishing habit for these lapse a bit, and I’m trying to get back to it. Hopefully you find some of them worthwhile as well! Here’s what I’ve been reading during the week ending April 2nd, 2023. Steve Yegge posted a stormer about LLMs and their potential for disrupting the process of writing code in Cheating is All You Need. Agree...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! This is my (sometimes) weekly collection of things that I’ve read recently that I’ve found interesting and thought-provoking. Hopefully you find some of them worthwhile as well! Here’s the curated list of links for the week ending June 26th, 2022: Crypto is first up this week, largely because of the recent major downward movements in BTC price but also because it seems that the tide of sentiment may be slowly shifting. I’ve never really understood the reasoning behind...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! I’ve been absent for a while due to other priorities, but it’s time to get back to it. I’ve got a ton of links in my reading list, but the ones below are those that have been most interesting to me lately. Here’s the curated list of links for the week ending June 19th, 2022: Molly White dose a great job of laying out the challenges and concerns around the notion of Sovereign Identity in her long-ish post Is “acceptably non-dystopian” self-sovereign identity even...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! The links are a little thin this week as I’ve been a bit busier than usual, but there are still quite a few worth checking out. Below is the curated list for the week ending March 13th, 2022: Good thoughts from Tom Gillis about the Log4j vulnerability in The Lessons Of Log4J: It May Seem Like Last Year’s News, But Don’t Ignore The Implications Of This Attack. If you run infrastructure, there are some good lessons in this post about Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! From time to time I’ll share a curated set of links to blogs, news stories, product information, etc. that have caught my attention. I find that it’s useful to provide the links with a small amount of context so that you, the reader, don’t have to blindly click the link without knowing why I found it interesting. Below is the curated list for the week ending March 6th, 2022: The power consumption of data centers is well-known, but I had less familiarity with some of...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! From time to time I’ll share a curated set of links to blogs, news stories, product information, etc. that have caught my attention. I find that it’s useful to provide the links with a small amount of context so that you, the reader, don’t have to blindly click the link without knowing why I found it interesting. Below is the curated list for the week ending February 27th, 2022: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dominated the news this week. It’s a long-ish read,...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! From time to time I’ll share a curated set of links to blogs, news stories, product information, etc. that have caught my attention. I find that it’s useful to provide the links with a small amount of context so that you, the reader, don’t have to blindly click the link without knowing why I found it interesting. Below is the curated list for the week ending February 20th, 2022: Build vs. Buy has always been a contentious topic, and Matt Asay bring some ammo to the...
Welcome to Sleepless Links! From time to time I’ll share a curated set of links to blogs, news stories, product information, etc. that have caught my attention. I find that it’s useful to provide the links with a small amount of context so that you, the reader, don’t have to blindly click the link without knowing why I found it interesting. Below is the curated list for the week ending February 13th, 2022: For anyone who has been working to integrate OKRs into their organization’s way of...