In his seminal work from 1972, The Mythical Man-month, Fred Brooks, when discussing organizing software development teams along the lines of a Surgical Team, introduced us to the concept of a programming Copilot. The proposal to organize Software Development teams in such a manner came to Brooks from his fellow IBMer Harlan Mills in his…
AI Bias and Judgement
Back when I was a teenager, I was introduced by my dad to one of his young colleagues. This gentleman was considered an up a coming leader. He was smart and outgoing, and I was impressed by how everyone around him looked up to him, even people older and his superiors. I hung on to…
Developer Ecosystems in Large Enterprises
Large Enterprises are neither Monolithic nor Homogenous. They have a long history of adopting myriad technology tools and technologies that come and (sometimes) go. I say ‘sometimes’ as we as an industry do a great job a adopting new technologies, but a horrible job at retiring old ones. In addition, many organizations also grow via…
Web3 from First Principles – The Blockchain
Computing technology has not changed much since the invention of the computer. Computers have advanced, becoming more powerful, faster and cheaper. New algorithms, implemented both in silicon and code, have allowed for the evolution of what these computers can do. New applications are delivered on a daily basis leveraging this enhanced computing power. Connecting these…
Web3 and the democratization of Digital Assets
My good friend and former colleague from IBM, Nitin Gaur emphasizes that the true value of web3 stems from web3 giving users the ability to traverse the value (of digital assets) across networks and ecosystems (paraphrased here from Nitin’s podcast Beyond Bitcoin which he co-hosts). The man nails it. It is the best description from…
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