Sometimes you have to say what you have to say... in German.
Warum the Hell Nicht?
Author: njyx
Senior Director at RedHat Inc. Ex. CEO of 3scale Inc. Concerned citizen of the world.
From APIStrat to ASC: A New Chapter in API Community Building
Way back in 2012, Kin Lane and I had the whacky idea of starting a vendor neutral API Conference. At the time, there were some early vendor events and they clearly had their own value, but there was nothing that enabled the whole space to gather neutrally. So APIStrat was born and after a trial … Continue reading From APIStrat to ASC: A New Chapter in API Community Building
Learning from Da Vinci’s To-Do List
Leonardo Da Vinci's to-do lists are pretty fascinating. It's hard to imagine a fuller life of learning and creation.
In the Long Run, no Job is Forever
In the Long Run, no Job is Forever, but for now the best way to win is combine domain expertise with technology.
Specific Issue Coalition Stitching
How individual issues go to build party bases.
Willful Misjudgment: Charlie Munger and Inequality
I have a lot of respect for Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger and others who've made fortunes but then also share their observations with the world. Some of the perspectives are genuinely enlightening (and not just for people who want to "get rich") - take Charlie Munger's 1995 piece on misjudgment for example. That makes it … Continue reading Willful Misjudgment: Charlie Munger and Inequality
Getting Better at Technology Ethics: EthicsOS
Technology is creating massive change in society. In many cases, that's for good, but there is certainly the potential for great harm. A lot of press coverage focused on anecdotal incidents of bad outcomes. These are sometimes outliers or red-herrings (deaths from autonomous vehicles, for example, are terrible for those involved, but it is still … Continue reading Getting Better at Technology Ethics: EthicsOS
It’s not about the Content, It’s about the People
I spent the week at Red Hat's excellent Red Hat Summit in Boston and coincidentally, the OAI just announced a new direction for the APIStrat conference - check out the new ASC event here! Both made me reflect on why I go to events (and sometimes have a hand in organizing them). Red Hat is … Continue reading It’s not about the Content, It’s about the People
The Full Stack AI Startup: Platform v’s Service
For AI startups, just like API startups going full stack in a particular market might be more successful than providing a generic service.
Closing up Open Source is not the answer to AWS
Andrew Leonard has nice post on medium which summarizes a lot of the current angst around Amazon's use of open source to power its services. (A post with one of the best blog graphics I've seen in a long while: it's worth clicking through even just for that!). The current controversy revolves around Elastic's changes … Continue reading Closing up Open Source is not the answer to AWS