Why do our project estimates keep failing—no matter how hard we plan? The answer isn’t just poor judgment or bad luck. As Dave Stewart reveals, it’s because every project is a living system, overflowing with invisible tasks and feedback loops that most estimators never see. To succeed, we need to map the whole ecosystem—not just the tip of the iceberg we call ‘the work.’
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In Defense of Sharing AI Output: Why “AI Slop” Isn’t the End of Meaningful Communication
Rethinking proof-of-thought, noise, and the upside of a more open AI culture. Is sharing ChatGPT output really so rude?A recent essay compares AI-generated text to a kind of digital pollution—a “virus” that wastes human attention and diminishes the value of communication. The author proposes strict AI etiquette: never share machine output unless you fully adopt …
This is Ludicrous – DeSantis wants to make us dumb
Dictionaries Banned, Logic Bewildered – In a perplexing move, Florida’s Escambia County School District has removed dictionaries from its libraries, citing HB 1069, a bill signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.