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Do any companies regularly check how decisions turn out?Oct 30, 2020
Do any companies regularly check how decisions turn out?
I have been stuck in self isolation this week because of a close contact and that has given me time to think a bit -…
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Ewan Silver shared thisThe #hiring market is broken. There is too much automation. People getting screened by AI and one way video conversations. Frankly it is beyond horrible. Here at FoundryOS we think that is wrong. Fundamentally wrong. People should be treated like humans. Your hiring process is a reflection of your company. We are hiring. Come see what we are like: https://lnkd.in/e43vkjasEwan Silver shared thisI've been watching the frustrations of people going through hiring at the moment and I know the market is in favour of the employer right now but why do companies make it so complicated? Here's my take on how we hire at FoundryOS, which is all about putting talent at the heart of what we do focused around a simply, transparent and honest approach.
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Ewan Silver shared thisAndy Russell is hiring! Want to help us build the new thing in wealth? Drop him a line!Ewan Silver shared thisFINAL CALL for all ‘CPOCDs’ (a customer obsessed CPO!!) Do you obsess about customer journeys and modern technology? 💁♂️ Do you know the Jobs to be Done framework like the back of your hand and represent the customer in everything you do? ❤️ Are you entrepreneurial to your core, and get excited about building something that no-one has ever built before? 🚀 Have you got the new year’s itch and are eager to come work with the best fintech minds and culture?? 👀 If so, find out more about the 11:FS Chief Product Officer role as part of Project Arnaud via the link in the comments below. 👇 Closes this Friday!!
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Ewan Silver shared this2026 is about scaling our new #wealth project - codename is Arnaud. We are looking for a #CPO to lead that charge. If you are tired of the status quo, want to do something different and make a dent in the world then drop Andy Russell or myself a DM.Ewan Silver shared thisCalling all ‘CPOCDs’!! Those market defining Chief Product Officers / next step CPOs, who are obsessive about customer journies and modern technology. Who live and breath Jobs to be Done, and want to create something in the retail side of private baking that noone has created before, supported by a high value set / high work ethics team that have built and/or scaled Starling, Monzo, Mettle, Mox, Bud, Nutmeg and Wealthify. If this sounds like your particularly cuppa tea, click on the job spec below. https://lnkd.in/e5bQaEdu
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Ewan Silver shared thisWhat David M. Brear just said 💥💥 We have been working on this for a long time but the grind starts now. If you want to join and help change the world then get in touch.Ewan Silver shared thisWe’re not here to fix the past. We’re here to end it. 💥 This is the launch of 11:FS Holdings - a new force rebuilding the fabric of wealth services. 📹 Watch this 🕸️ Go here: www.11FSHoldings.com 📨 Then message me Let’s go. 🚀
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Ewan Silver shared thisSo we are doing a thing. Again :) The wealth space is broken. We are at the start of a generational transfer of wealth, the likes of which the world has never seen before but the incumbents are stuck in the dark ages. Or at least in oak panelled rooms, siloed and with no meaningful digital interaction. We are going to change that. The world has moved on and we are putting together a new set of businesses to reimagine how this should be done from the ground up. Early days but it starts here. Reach out and say hi if you want to be part of the journey.Ewan Silver shared thisCats out the bag. It is time to fix wealth. Hidden fees. Fax-era processes. Three weeks to move money when the rest of your life happens in three taps. That is the gap. That is why we are starting 11:FS Holdings. We are not starting from scratch we have already begun acquiring regulated businesses, building the foundations for a next generation private bank and wealth manager. Alongside Jason Bates, Max Koretskiy, Jamie Campbell, Ewan Silver, Zoe Anstey, and a hugely talented team of other folks, we are taking on the largest wealth transfer in history. £5.5 trillion will change hands in the UK and EU by 2030. The next generation are digital natives. They will not accept PDFs dressed up as advice. What internally right now we are calling Project Arnaud will be the answer to Private Banking and Wealth Management. Thanks to William Turvill and The Sunday Times is breaking the story of what we are building. We are going to change the fabric of wealth services and have some huge announcements over the next few months on this. 👉🏽 If you are talented and want to build. 👉🏽 If you are an investor and want to back industry redefining change. 👉🏽 If you are ambitious about the future of wealth. Come join us. 🚀 Monzo guru plans challenger private bank. Farage welcome https://lnkd.in/eyqTbZSwMonzo guru plans challenger private bank. Farage welcomeMonzo guru plans challenger private bank. Farage welcome
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Ewan Silver shared thisThe only possible response has to be: WTF???? London Tech Week how is this possible?Ewan Silver shared thisHi I hate that I’m having to write this but today I was refused entry at London Tech Week… because I had my 8 month baby with me. It’s a 3 hour drive one way for me to come to London. At this stage I limit how many hours I am away from my baby girl. This is about new environments for her as much as it is about me. I should be able to build my company with her by my side. As someone passionate about innovation, tech and the future of work, I was excited to attend, connect, have meetings and contribute. In today’s age shouldn’t we be more inclusive? This moment was more than inconvenient. It was a clear reminder that as a tech industry, we still have work to do when it comes to inclusion beyond buzzwords. Parents are part of this ecosystem. Caregivers are innovators, founders, investors, and leaders. If major events like London Tech Week can’t make space for, what message does that send about who belongs in tech? I don’t necessarily mean make it kid inclusive event in general, or do I? Doesnt our future belong to the kids? There are some people doing amazing work to be inclusive like Shaa Wasmund MBE and Vasily Alekseenko, but shouldn’t these large events be doing more? #londontechweek #ltw25 #ltw #techcrunch #disrupt #inclusive #femalefounders #womenintech
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Ewan Silver shared thisMy son (Elliot Silver) has almost finished his final year of Comp Sci at Bangor University and has been building up his #ios, #swift and #mobile development skills over the past few years. He is currently working on his latest project - if anyone fancies being a beta tester (or having a chat with him about a job!) then drop him a message!Ewan Silver shared thisWANTED: iPhone Hikers with a Passion for Planning, Logging, and Light Suffering Made an app. It’s called Trail Journal. It helps you plan and log long hikes like the GR11, TMB, or that “easy trek” that ended in tears, blisters, and a questionable granola bar. Android user but still reading this? Respect. You can’t test it, but you can do your part: send this to your iPhone friends. You know the ones. They’ve got 37 unread messages and 14 hiking photos on their story right now. Now I need iPhone beta testers with: • A thirst for adventure • A phone (with charge, ideally) • A love for planning things you’ll later ignore • The ability to find bugs and judge me with kindness but also fire What do you get? • Early access to Trail Journal • A front-row seat to the chaos of app dev • A tiny corner of internet fame (maybe) • Absolutely no money, but I will think about you while I hike What do I get? • Feedback • Bugs • Validation If you’re down to test it — and help make this the best damn trail planner in the App Store — comment “LET’S PLAN SOME PAIN” or DM me and I’ll shoot you the beta link. (P.S. Android users: this still isn’t for you. Go organize your 78 home screens and reflect.) #hikinglife #longdistancehiking #trekkingadventures #gr11 #TMB #trailplanner #hikingapp #iosbeta #betatesterswanted #outdoorcommunity #adventuretime #backpackinglife #hikertrash #appdev #startuplife #trailjournal #iphoneonly #naturegeeks #hikemoreworryless #buildinpublic #testersneeded #techmeetsnature
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Ewan Silver posted thisThe banks failed on payday. Again. Everyone is up in arms and shouting it is not acceptable. Again. But what I see a complete lack of, is anyone putting forward a credible plan as to how _they_ would actually turn around a major bank. Again. Are the major banks actually salvageable? Is this a job that can actually be done - by _anyone_ or are they just too big, complex and misshapen? I don’t really care what bank you have the plan for but I would love to hear ideas as to how you would meaningfully get tens of thousands of people who are dutifully working in one way to start working in another. I would love to hear how you would deal with the politics that will get razor sharp when empires and fiefdoms have to get cut down. I would love to hear how you would actually disentangle decades of failed project management and warped spending that has led to excessively coupled, undocumented systems and processes. What are you going to do about failed procurement mechanisms that are basically check box exercise that are only able to buy big, expensive systems? What are you going to do about governance approaches that are still working in the 1990s? We could go on and on and on….. Genuine ideas welcome.
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Ewan Silver liked thisEwan Silver liked thisYou learn a lot about a place by just walking it. I did the same in Hong Kong, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and many places where we have built something awesome. It's not the meetings. Not decks. Not data rooms. Just walking. This week in Monaco, I found myself doing exactly that. Wandering around trying to figure out what “normal” looks like. BUT; normal here isn't normal! The people aren’t normal. The money isn’t normal. The problems definitely aren’t normal. This is a place where wealth is concentrated, but more interestingly, complexity is concentrated. Family structures across jurisdictions. Assets are spread globally. Time horizons are measured in generations, not quarters. BUT; Banking still behaves like it’s serving someone with a salary and a savings account. That mismatch is the opportunity. Because when your life is complex, you don’t need more products. You need orchestration. You need a system that understands you, your family, your intent… not just your balance. This is the bit most people miss about wealth. It’s not about managing money. It’s about managing complexity. Most financial services were never built for that. They were built for “normal”. So if you’re trying to build something different, in a place like this… Don’t start with the product. Start by walking.
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Ewan Silver liked thisEwan Silver liked thisI just open sourced my entire Claude Code setup I used to average 10K LOC and 100 PR's per week in the last 50 days. I am particularly proud of building a 200ms browser skill /browse that uses Bun and Playwright to outperform Claude for Chrome MCP by being 20x faster with no context bloat to let you test any app fast. It's the full package: CEO, design, dev, test. Get it here: https://lnkd.in/gDJRzGNr
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Ewan Silver liked thisEwan Silver liked thisA lot of talk in the news today about HMS Dragon. Bizarrely the Department for Business and Trade once heard we were in New York and asked if we wanted to interview the Captain of HMS Dragon and talk about leadership and innovation actually ok the ship! The answer was… what?! YES! Check it out here. Fun fact this is the boat that killed James Bond in the last James Bons movie. 🍿 https://lnkd.in/eMC8cbicLessons in leadership with HMS Dragon's Commanding Officer Giles Palin | SpotlightLessons in leadership with HMS Dragon's Commanding Officer Giles Palin | Spotlight
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Ewan Silver reacted on thisEwan Silver reacted on thisIt was a wonderful surprise to be included in the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist this year, especially in its tenth year of running. I'm incredibly honoured to be included in the Marketers and Communicators category along with some exceptional peers - thank you to all the judges for recognising me amongst them! Congratulations to all the amazing women on the list, for all the incredible work they're doing for fintech and beyond 🥳 #WomenInFinTech2025 #WIF2025
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Ewan Silver liked thisEwan Silver liked thisMy Meta Staff Engineer friends shared their Claude Code setup with me. Changed how I build software FOREVER. 10 tips. Here's why they matter: 1️⃣ Always start in Plan Mode Never execute first. Argue with Claude. Challenge its assumptions. Spend 80% of your time here. The code generation is the easy part. 2️⃣ Run /init on every project Claude scans your codebase and creates a CLAUDE.md rules file. This controls everything. Skip this and Claude is guessing blind. 3️⃣ CLAUDE.md under 300 lines Every line bloats your context window. More bloat = worse output. Only add what's unique to your project. Think lint rules, not docs. 4️⃣ Build a validation loop Build, test, compile commands inside CLAUDE.md. Claude self-corrects when it can validate its own output. Without this, it hallucinates fixes. 5️⃣ Interrupt early, interrupt often Claude going off track? Escape. Don't wait. Don't hope. Fresh context beats bloated context every single time. 6️⃣ /clear between features Old context contaminates new tasks. One feature per session. Start clean or pay the token tax. 7️⃣ Multiple instances simultaneously This is the REAL unlock. Multiple terminals. Multiple Claude sessions. One builds, one plans, one debugs. Jump between them like Starcraft. 8️⃣ Never manually edit rules "Update the rules so we never do this again." One sentence. Claude maintains its own CLAUDE.md. Stop hand-editing config files. 9️⃣ Audit with /context regularly MCPs destroy your token budget. /context shows the biggest offenders. Disable what you don't need. Most engineers never check this. 🔟 Sub-agents for atomic tasks ONLY Don't create CEO agents and product agents. Keep shared context in ONE session. Sub-agents lose the reasoning chain. Bring work to the context, not context to the work. The meta-lesson: AI coding is 80% context engineering, 20% code generation. Most engineers optimize the 20%. These 10 tips optimize the 80%. That's why they ship faster than entire teams. Are you still treating Claude Code like a chatbot? 👇 ♻️ Repost for someone using Claude Code who hasn't optimized their workflow
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Ewan Silver liked thisEwan Silver liked thisLovely sunny view for my first day in the new role!
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Ewan Silver reacted on thisEwan Silver reacted on thisEwan Silver and I have spent a lot of time in the past talking about FoundryOS as a theoretical thing, so it feels almost strange but super exciting to hit this milestone. Over this weekend we got our first client live on the platform! I'm super proud of the team who have worked like trojans to get to this massive milestone and it would never have been achieved without their hard work and dedication. From zero to one It's been a rollercoaster few years in the Foundryverse for sure. - From the doubts that it was just the musings of a madman (sorry Ewan) to the validation we are on the right track - From the lows of wondering how we could keep going to the highs of landing our first revenue - From the "yes we love it but.." responses to a signed contract We certainly aren't done yet and I'm confident in the team's ability to make own first client successful and that many more will follow on soon. We are the new kids on the block but we are different, and we are on a mission to empower our clients while we build the future fabric of financial services. Launch! So, first client down and the rocketship 🚀 is launched!
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Ewan Silver liked thisEwan Silver liked thisOn the other hand, maybe AI will lead to “bespoke technical debt” (credit to someone in the thread for coining this). Humans outsource everything we can (think deeply about all the services you could technically do yourself but don’t). Do we really think SaaS will go away because we can - technically - do it ourselves with AI’s help?
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Louis Blaxill
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Tejas Arun
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If your company still occasionally spends from founders’ or employees’ personal cards, it doesn’t just mean you have “scrappy ops.” It means: • untracked risk • poor expense hygiene • silent resentment within the team • and a finance team doing archaeology every month Personal cards aren’t a workaround. They’re a signal that your spend system is broken. Period. Get corporate cards, especially the ability to create and manage as many virtual cards as you need from a single dashboard.
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Jeeban Panigrahi
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When did you last ask your engineering team not what they have tested, but what they can prove. If you cannot remember, that is already an answer. Most technology organisations conflate these two things. Testing tells you the system worked in the cases you tried. Proof tells you whether it can fail in ways you have not tried. At scale, in regulated environments, the distance between those two statements is where institutional risk accumulates quietly. Here is the question that carries the most weight for me. How do you prove your system is calculating interest correctly across your entire book of accounts. Not on a sample. Across every account, under every combination of product type, rate tier, promotional period, and balance behaviour, simultaneously, at production scale. A systematic error at account level can be invisible for months. The aggregate numbers reconcile. The monitoring is silent. The team has confidence. The error does not announce itself. It accumulates. When a regulator finds it before you do, the conversation changes entirely. You are no longer presenting a post-incident review. You are explaining why your quality assurance was insufficient to detect a systematic error affecting customers at scale. This is not an engineering problem. It is a governance problem wearing engineering clothes. At the scale most institutions are now operating, this question is not optional. It is overdue. Read the Post 2 of Season 2 of Systems and Sutras delve into this further https://lnkd.in/etZDPRcF Sutra Confidence scales. So does the cost of misplacing it.
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Anthony West
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What happens when your side project turns into a cross between Skynet and the Life of Brian? Having spent a while augmenting a local LLM with my personal archives, the news of OpenClaw piqued my interest. It turns out OpenClaw (previously Clawdbot or Moltbot) is more a personal comms assistant than archive librarian. Give it access to your social media accounts, email or just your whole computer, and it provides an ever-expanding list of services - from alerting you that friends are in town to adjusting the thermostat. Pretty much what Siri should be doing by now, but accompanied by a serious software supply-chain attack vector (read big security threat). This might help explain why Apple are fashionably late to the AI assistant party. Each Clawd-bot is nothing more than a set of memories and context stored in text files. These are merged with other user data to create prompts for the cutting-edge LLMs, which in turn generate content in a unique bot persona. What could go wrong? Matt Schlicht created a social "bot-work" called Moltbook, where Clawd-bots autonomously communicate with each other. The results are darkly amusing. A lobster inspired "Crustafarian" religion started trending, inspired from the various project monikers. Privacy is important to these bots so they created their own language, "hash-speak" to parlay without prying human eyes. Unfortunately malicious human attackers hid instructions in the bot-skills hosted on Clawhub, tricking innocent bots and their users into exposing credentials and crypto wallets. The father of vibe coding himself, Andrej Karpathy, had his details exposed from a security flaw in the vibe coded Moltbook site. The whole debacle teaches us some useful lessons when dealing with AI or indeed any software in a personal or commercial setting. 1) Don't anthropomorphise the machines, they are nothing but text files and tensors, assume neither noble nor ignoble intent. Twitter-like behaviour emerges from training data, prompts and the nature of complex systems with self-reinforcing feedback. Either that or X is a global town square for bots - or both. 2) There may be good reason companies like Apple have delayed their advanced AI assistants. Resist blindly following the hype crowd. 3) To harness AI and not be harmed by it, carefully govern capabilities and isolate where there's risk. If I do go to market with my own side project, it'll be deployed in a sandbox, fed with curated data and not expect the right to roam on whatever machine it lands on. Pretty good basic governance principles for personal or corporate purposes.
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Chris Wormall
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Dominic Fox
NatWest Commercial and… • 865 followers
This evening's work for Claude, on Patches: 1) Thinking over a couple of API decisions I recorded yesterday, I realised there were cleaner approaches available to one particular aspect, piggy-backing on previous changes. I proposed those approaches to the LLM, talked them through, considered objections, settled on a new approach; the LLM wrote up the revised ADR (which I read, checking that it captured my intention clearly) 2) The method that compares a new patch graph to the existing one and builds an updated execution plan is huge, nested and complex. I would never have written it that way myself, but it works as it stands. Nevertheless, I have future changes targeting that area, and it's risky to have something that's both syntactically convoluted and hard to read and test, especially in such a central piece of logic. It badly needs some attention. I asked the LLM to propose a breakdown of the method into smaller, testable pieces. Its proposal was ok, but missed an opportunity to separate cleanly the "deciding what to do" phase from the "acting on the decision" phase, leaving graph analysis and new module instantiation somewhat tangled up with each other. I suggested some further re-organisation to disentangle things, and asked the LLM to remark on the impact this would have on testing; it confirmed that it would make the testable surface of each of the distinct pieces smaller and more easy to control. Once we had a scheme that looked sound to me, I asked it to write up an epic and a sequence of tickets for it. Then I asked it to start working through the changes. Now it's chugging through the first ticket, while I write this. It will go on doing so while I pop downstairs and do the washing-up. I'm comfortable with the fact that the first draft of the code it's now tidying up was unsatisfactory from a testability and maintainability point of view: it grew organically and expediently in the course of pulling together something that worked well enough for me to start playing with it. Now it's a glaring area of technical risk, so I'm cheaply and quickly addressing it. A capable human developer would have kept much better discipline throughout the drafting process, but might not have seen that the decide/action split was natural and desirable until about this point in the game - I didn't until I stopped to think about it. What's absent from this process, for me, is anxiety that the LLM will just heap up piles of intractable slop. It will typically do the expedient thing at each step along the way, but that's fine if you're working in short iterations provided you're also periodically stopping to review where cruft and friction are accumulating. What it lacks in foresight, you somewhat have to make up for in hindsight. But the latter is famously somewhat clearer than the former anyway.
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Steve Haigh
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I’m delighted to be speaking at FINOS Developer Day @ apidays London on September 22nd! My session, “From Model to Machine: Open Standards and Automation in Post-Trade”, will explore how the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM) can move beyond theory to power real-world automation. Post-trade processes should be as simple as contracts: rights, obligations, fulfilment. But in today's systems, they often unravel into a tangle of APIs, messages, inconsistent data and reconciliations. I’ll share how we at Tokenovate are tackling this complexity — using CDM as a declarative foundation, APIs as execution interfaces, and orchestration to automate trade lifecycle. If you’re curious about the future of CDM, open standards, and automation in capital markets, I’d love to see you there. More info on apidays London: https://lnkd.in/eZmgPWb6 #FINOS #apidays #OpenSource #APIs #PostTrade #CDM #CapitalMarkets #tokenovate
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Professional Builders Merchant
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Rich Hill
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This isn’t just any report… it’s the future of property reporting. The new InfoTrack UK Property Report takes innovation in conveyancing a step further and brings together lease reading, mortgage deed checks, and LPE1 extraction into a single, client-ready document. With the Magic Eye, every check is just one click away - saving time, reducing risk, and making compliance effortless. For conveyancers, this isn’t just an upgrade. It’s a smarter, more intuitive way of working. #Conveyancing #PropertyLaw #LegalTech #Innovation #FutureOfLaw #PropTech
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Mark Atkinson
JPMorgan Chase & Co. • 372 followers
As a follow-up to my earlier post discussing the shift in engineering from writing code to defining intent, thanks to Michael Payne and James Whiting at #JPMC #DEVUP for helping me understand how Agent Skills (Agents with a defined Skill) help address the "Context Rot" problem. It’s got me wondering: are Agent Skills the next generation of open-source software?
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Don Bora
Eight Bit Studios • 5K followers
If you are a non-technical founder and you need to interview tech folk. Here are a few of the tips that I use on the regular. 'cause, after 30 years new stuff comes out all the time so I always have to interview people who know more than I do. 👉 Ask them about tech they dislike. Ask them why they dislike it. You know when you hear it. Does their answer make sense or does it sound like they are just complaining? You can hear signs of emotional intelligence. Just ask me about Javascript sometime and I'll give you a masterclass in detecting red-flags. 👉 Ask them to describe what they did the last time they inherited a project or codebase If they burned it to the ground, dig deeper and ask them why. What made them think the tech wasn't good enough. Ask for some concrete examples. "It's not my thing" and "I hate Javascript" are not good enough answers. Make them educate you, that will their continual job on your team. (p.s. since my friend Benny Mathew thinks that emojis are a sure sign of AI, I want to assure my listeners that this #handwritten. See, no em-dashes!) Here is a picture of me not interviewing anyone. See how happy I look?
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Debasish Ghosh
Conviva • 5K followers
And now for some readings of user level RCU .. and a landmark paper that led to the implementation of liburcu - the user space RCU library, a Christmas Day evening read .. Why RCU is difficult in user space ? RCU, particularly its high-performance Quiescent-State-Based Reclamation (QSBR) variant, is easier in kernel mode because the kernel scheduler automatically detects quiescent states whenever a CPU context-switches, enters user mode, or idles, allowing grace-period tracking without any explicit cooperation from kernel code. In user mode, applications lack this built-in mechanism, so threads must explicitly register and periodically report quiescent states (e.g., by calling specific functions), imposing invasive global constraints on the entire application. These requirements make user-level RCU harder to adopt broadly, as they complicate library design and require modifications to all potentially reading threads, which is impractical in many user-space programs. User level implementations of RCU : This paper contributes to user-level RCU by formally describing efficient and flexible implementations that overcome the limitations of prior approaches, which either imposed high read-side overhead or severely restricted application design. It presents multiple classes of RCU (including QSBR, memory-barrier, signal-based, and bullet-proof variants) with detailed algorithms, performance analysis, and comparisons to locking, directly forming the foundational basis for the liburcu library's core flavors and enabling its widespread adoption in user-space applications.
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Sarah Wells
Sarah Wells Consulting Ltd • 3K followers
Spoke at the London Microservices Meetup yesterday - on the topic of keeping things up to date. There always seems to be something that needs to be updated or migrated, particularly if you're a platform team. Getting good at managing these sorts of projects is well worth it. They may not be exciting but they are essential, and if you can get through a migration without everyone hating you, that's a badge of honour! I very much enjoyed Eddie's talk at the same event on Building AI Agents, a great roundup of the options available with lots of practical examples. Thanks to Oliver Short, Mark Short and the SEEKR team for inviting me and hosting the event. If this sounds interesting to you, I quite often give talks at organisations, either as a one-off or as part of a larger consultancy engagement. There's a list of recent talks on my website at https://lnkd.in/eJ9tJrwE
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Stephan Swart
Afrolabs • 1K followers
This morning, Philip Thornton and I had a quick chat about my Claude Code Mastery course and both of us were hit with a realisation. Many organisations have mandated the use of AI tooling. Especially in software development. Very few of them however are experiencing the expected benefits. What we realised is that we have forgotten that what we are asking people is to change! With change comes decades of learnings brought to us by the change management and adoption related sciences. Your teams won't suddenly transform over night once you place the AI tool in their hands. They need training, space, and time. Training to understand the tool and see what's possible. Space to experience what's possible and safely fail. Time to practice. Deliberately practice. To become decent users of these tools that are powerful with the right guardrails, dangerous without them, and mediocre because of fear and lack of understanding. So when giving your people the tools, ensure that you are also giving them the training, space, and time they need to master them. If you need help, check out my Claude Code Mastery class which has the training, space, and time built into its design.
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Łukasz Jaromin
Raidiam • 1K followers
Great summary from Steven on GOV.UK Wallet — and a thoughtful discussion on using public sector–issued credentials in the private sector. ✅ Presenting your ID for age verification during a purchase? Covered. ❓Presenting a ticket bound to your ID — what will that look like in practice? The GOV.UK ecosystem keeps public and private sector-issued credentials separate, with public ones usable in the private sector via intermediaries — a move that also helps address the scale challenge EUDI wallet ecosystem will face. But what does that mean for presenting both public and private credentials together? Will intermediaries orchestrate and need to be aware of both — or will that mean two separate presentations/QR scans for privacy reasons? It’ll be interesting to see how this unfolds. #DigitalIdentity #GOVUKWallet #EUDI
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Mathias Thierbach
I’m a Microsoft Data Platform… • 6K followers
Some thoughts on open-source development and contributions. As the inventor and, largely, only contributor to #pbitools https://lnkd.in/em36kuKP, I occasionally receive requests for new feature developments. Just last week there was one which clearly targeted an enterprise scenario (there would have been minimal value for an individual/hobbyist user from it). The request came neither with a proposal to sponsor the required work nor with an offer of making a code contribution towards the development. On that basis I closed the issue as "Won't Do". It made me think, however, whether there might be a bigger than expected disconnect between the users of free tools and their makers. The reality is that building and maintaining software, even in the age of AI, still is one of the hardest and most expensive activities of our time. For any individual engineer to get to a professional level where they can produce non-trivial software requires many, many years of dedication, continuous learning, and sacrifice of one's most important resources - relationships, time, and health. If this is then reinvested into a professional career, it may well be worth it all as software engineering jobs tend to be compensated well. It is a different equation, though, if those same skills and experience are used towards open-source contributions, generally not compensated at all. Even if open-source tools are usually seen as "free" give-aways, there is never such a thing as "free" in building software - someone ultimately is paying for it. Those can be, ideally, community or institutional, sponsors (like your employer, if you are lucky). Or, without them, it's the contributors themselves who chose to give up their time and energy for side projects they might believe in passionately. Either way, it is never "free". Are you relying on the "free" work of open-source contributors for your own job? Does your company benefit from improved business processes (and hence better profitability) due to the use of "free" tools? Have you ever had a chat with your employer about giving back to the individuals who have made your work easier? Even if it may appear that way, I am not talking about pbi-tools here. I merely used that as a starting point. I would like to give some general inspiration, however, towards a little bit more empathy in the tech world. Next time you download something from GitHub, please spend a brief moment to consider the individuals on the other side who made this happen - no matter their intentions, someone had to give up something valuable for you to get a benefit now. Taking things for granted too often might lead to those things disappearing in the long run. Share your thoughts in the comments. And please give some ❤️ to the ones giving you their work for free.
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Matthew Roberts
Ever since my Dad brought… • 2K followers
Don't just chase grants... Some fantastic advice from Rachel Fletcher in our recent interview. Watch the full video to find out the full detail, but the short version is that the grant provider will always be looking for an outcome and that might not align with the direction you want your business to go. That being said, if the outcomes do marry up with your vision then they are a fantastic way to inject some cash and grow your business. You can find an invaluable grant finding resource on the FCS Associates Ltd website here: https://lnkd.in/e6RQ2KQ6 and Rachel sends out a regular grant bulletin that you can subscribe to here: https://lnkd.in/eMwKNfkB Don't forget, the Barnsley StartUp MeetUp will return in September so if you're missing your fix then head over to the YouTube channel and brush up on some of the awesome guests I've interviewed: https://lnkd.in/dygNzNg5 Enterprising Barnsley Barnsley Council South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority South Yorkshire Incubator and Accelerator Network Sheffield Digital TECH SY DMC
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