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Creativity Isn’t Just Remixing

O'Reilly

Ethan Mollick (with whom I rarely disagree) writes, “In the real world, most new ideas do not come from the ether; they are based on combinations of existing concepts, which is why innovation scholars have long pointed to the importance of recombination in generating ideas.” There’s an almost unending appetite for “industrial” music.

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The OpenAI Endgame

O'Reilly

I’m sure the monopolists would say “of course, those can be built by fine tuning our foundation models”; but do we know whether that’s the best way to build those applications? Or will innovation only be possible through the entrenched monopolies? Will that be possible in the future?

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. of Total Wait Time.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman. Doug Sillars.

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Good Management Can Work Miracles

The Agile Manager

In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. Bright people were inventing and innovating, but nobody was there to monetise their work. 5 Grand Prix Tune-Ups” F1 Racing Magazine.

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Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps)

Smashing Magazine

In the process, you’re cross-pollinating the organization to bring people to the table to innovate. It is far better to maintain, tune, and prepare for when the time comes for that quick tire change. Large preview ). You’re getting out ahead of the roadmap, connecting the dots.

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