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I&#8217;m in Sunnyvale today and had some terrific meetings. Probably because I just finished reading <a href="https://amzn.to/3wU6xFw">Death by Meeting</a> and am focused on making my meetings more engaging and impactful. It&#8217;s a quick read, and I highly recommend it.

[article] <a href="https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/measuring-generative-ai-adoption-and-impact">Three methods for measuring GenAI adoption and impact</a>. This is good for answering the &#8220;how&#8221;, assuming you&#8217;ve answered the &#8220;what&#8221; and &#8220;why&#8221; already. Use telemetry, experience sampling, and surveys to collect data to answer your questions.

[blog] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/gemini-pro-available-in-bigquery-through-vertex-ai/">Dive deeper into Gemini with BigQuery and Vertex AI</a>. I like that you can invoke models inline using SQL commands. This simplifies your architecture and makes ML more approachable.

[article] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/finally-platform-engineering-for-enterprise-cloud-migration/">Finally, Platform Engineering for Enterprise Cloud Migration</a>. My former CEO at Pivotal is back with a company doing very interesting work modernizing mainframe systems. This was an excellent piece about why these efforts typically fail today, and how there&#8217;s a better way.

[article] <a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/incidents-culture-resilience">Two Years of Incidents at Six Different Companies: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals</a>. Really good talk from Vanessa that educates us on incidents, how to respond effectively, and some anti-patterns to avoid.

[blog] <a href="https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/03/google-io-2024-save-the-date.html">Tune in for Google I/O on May 14</a>. Might be worth marking your calendar for this event where we share new hardware, services, and tech innovations each year.

[article] <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/thursdays-starship-flight-provided-a-glimpse-into-a-future-of-abundant-access-to-space/">After Thursday’s flight, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built</a>. There are times where it can feel like human civilization doesn&#8217;t create amazing physical things any more, and then I get inspired by pieces like this.

[article] <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714445/open-source-is-not-insecure.html">Open source is not insecure</a>. Dan explains that OSS itself improves your security posture, but we need to rethink how we package, sign, verify, and distribute OSS.

[article] <a href="https://www.ciodive.com/news/microsoft-azure-eliminates-cloud-data-egress-fees/710367/">Microsoft joins AWS, Google Cloud on path to free data egress</a>. We started a trend! Microsoft followed our lead and ensures you can leave a cloud provider with fewer punitive costs.

[blog] <a href="https://x.ai/blog/grok-os">Open Release of Grok-1</a>. Access the weights and architecture of this model. It already has an impressive number of forks and stars on GitHub.

[blog] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gaming/generative-ai-fuels-next-gen-living-games/">The evolution of play: From live to living games</a>. I&#8217;m not sure we understand all the implications of this, but AI should definitely make games and gameplay more interesting!

[blog] <a href="https://thegrowtheq.com/to-perform-under-pressure-shift-your-perspective/">To Perform Under Pressure, Shift Your Perspective</a>. I enjoyed Steve&#8217;s book (Do Hard Things) and this idea about perspective is an important one.

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 because I just finished reading <a href=\"https://amzn.to/3wU6xFw\">Death by
 Meeting</a> and am focused on making my meetings more engaging and impactful.
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 methods for measuring GenAI adoption and impact</a>. This is good for answering
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 &#8220;why&#8221; already. Use telemetry, experience sampling, and surveys to collect
 data to answer your questions.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/gemini-pro-available-in-bigquery-through-vertex-ai/\">Dive
 deeper into Gemini with BigQuery and Vertex AI</a>. I like that you can
 invoke models inline using SQL commands. This simplifies your architecture and makes
 ML more approachable.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/finally-platform-engineering-for-enterprise-cloud-migration/\">Finally,
 Platform Engineering for Enterprise Cloud Migration</a>. My former CEO
 at Pivotal is back with a company doing very interesting work modernizing mainframe
 systems. This was an excellent piece about why these efforts typically fail today,
 and how there&#8217;s a better way.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.infoq.com/presentations/incidents-culture-resilience\">Two
 Years of Incidents at Six Different Companies: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help
 You Accomplish Your Goals</a>. Really good talk from Vanessa that educates
 us on incidents, how to respond effectively, and some anti-patterns to avoid.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/03/google-io-2024-save-the-date.html\">Tune
 in for Google I/O on May 14</a>. Might be worth marking your calendar for
 this event where we share new hardware, services, and tech innovations each year.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/thursdays-starship-flight-provided-a-glimpse-into-a-future-of-abundant-access-to-space/\">After
 Thursday’s flight, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built</a>.
 There are times where it can feel like human civilization doesn&#8217;t create amazing
 physical things any more, and then I get inspired by pieces like this.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714445/open-source-is-not-insecure.html\">Open
 source is not insecure</a>. Dan explains that OSS itself improves your
 security posture, but we need to rethink how we package, sign, verify, and distribute
 OSS.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.ciodive.com/news/microsoft-azure-eliminates-cloud-data-egress-fees/710367/\">Microsoft
 joins AWS, Google Cloud on path to free data egress</a>. We started a trend!
 Microsoft followed our lead and ensures you can leave a cloud provider with fewer
 punitive costs.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://x.ai/blog/grok-os\">Open
 Release of Grok-1</a>. Access the weights and architecture of this model.
 It already has an impressive number of forks and stars on GitHub.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gaming/generative-ai-fuels-next-gen-living-games/\">The
 evolution of play: From live to living games</a>. I&#8217;m not sure we
 understand all the implications of this, but AI should definitely make games and
 gameplay more interesting!\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://thegrowtheq.com/to-perform-under-pressure-shift-your-perspective/\">To
 Perform Under Pressure, Shift Your Perspective</a>. I enjoyed Steve&#8217;s
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