Joseph Jude

What are developers using GenAI for? Interesting insights from a JetBrains survey. The first four uses aren't surprising to me, but "Summarizing recent code changes" is unexpected. How are you using GenAI as a developer? https://t.co/RLHa9ThNyz https://t.co/Yxy53edTQf

How Do You Find Ambitious Bosses To Work For? How to find bosses, the kind who pull you forward and open doors you did not know existed. The truth is, you can't. This is one of those parts of life where luck has a bigger role than we like to admit. You prepare yourself, you do…

You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia. I stumbled upon this song accidentally on YouTube, and now I can't stop listening to it because it narrates my life. Those who know me now see me as a cheerful, always-positive person. I wasn't always this… https://t.co/cJyarOeELX

Whether my portfolio is up or down is the only thing that matter. Not where the index is. Unless of course if you invest in index funds or ETFs

where is @hrxbrand footwear sold in Panchkula / Chandigarh?

Interestingly ChatGPT (or Claude or other GPT tools) don't have dates for each chat. So if I get back to a chat after a month or long, I won't know what date I had a chat and what was the context in which I asked a particular question. Did any of you face this situation?

Your Boss Usually Knows More Than You A manager of mine once told me a story that stayed with me. His young son was playing cricket in the front yard. A small ball rolled out toward the road, and the boy ran behind it without a second thought. His eyes saw only the ball and the…

Currently reading.... Interesting https://t.co/8wg8gb9fYi

How to make marriage enjoyable and stay married for long? I am ok You are ok Together we are ok Most of us have some form of low-esteem - I am short, fat, can't speak well, lazy ...whatever. We don't deal with this and project those to others which in marriage comes out as… https://t.co/RofP3ydnID

> Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them. Brooks wrote this in 1975, and here we are, fifty years later, still answering customers about why doubling the number of developers will not… https://t.co/7PLVBJiq00

> Every place has a cost. Born and lived in India. Lived in Europe. Living back again in India. This is what I would say: Every place has a cost. Find if that cost is ok with you. Find if you can pay that cost. Otherwise move. https://t.co/xwINUMT3Fs

What ails India? a) lack of uniform law enforcement and b) lack of swift justice Everything else is derivative of these two problems I wrote more here: https://t.co/kCvzFVo5p4 https://t.co/Tzu5KcNokT

> At McKinsey, three is a magic number. Things at the firm come in threes. This book taught me to think in three. And to shape my replies in three options. There is something strangely comforting about the number three. Maybe it is the rhythm our brains enjoy. The second idea I… https://t.co/UM9Wpim4Gf

Workday is acquiring Pipedream. Will pipedream will remain the same or become enshittified?

Reading "ergodicity" by @DellAnnaLuca Wondering what is the effect of ergodicity on randomized trials for vaccines & medicines. "When you have ergodicity, doing N random experiments in parallel will give you the same result as doing N experiments one after the other" Even the…

Do you guys run LLMs locally? What models? What do you use it for? I tried gemma-3 1b models. It is ok not so impressive locally. Any tips on what I can use & learn?

Make your boss look good. Most people hear “make your boss look good” and think it means becoming a yes-person. It doesn’t. Ambitious bosses don’t want applause. They want people who sharpen their ideas, question their assumptions and help them look strong in the rooms that…

Have you started listening to Christmas songs? Or is it only me? Christmas songs means Jim Reeves songs https://t.co/leMhW0D5Mb

Preparing my sermon for tomorrow https://t.co/sWMmplmKSJ

Tried signing up for https://t.co/UiqllZs7pa Wouldn’t take an Indian credit card. Thought it would be cool to have x + insta + Wordpress all bundled into one place. Sad.

Finished reading "The prosperity paradox" Prof Clay Christensen uses JTBD for prosperity. Again he makes so much sense about this theory. Core theme of the book: Market creating innovations can lift countries out of poverty. https://t.co/2ELdRIyQ1G

In a time flooded with content that makes you anxious, this YouTube channel is the perfect antidote.: https://t.co/G2zS4mPQdj Joshua Charow, a photographer and documentary maker, visits older New York artists in their beautiful lofts and listens to their life stories.

An "intellectual" thread to undermine opposition and eventually subvert democracy. Let's rewind the clock back to 2013 and apply all of these. Did the stability paradox play? Nope. If anything economy was sabotaged by BJP & IAC movement. https://t.co/7riM4fw6Yd

Interestingly ChatGPT (or Claude or other GPT tools) don't have dates for each chat. So if I get back to a chat after a month or long, I won't know what date I had a chat and what was the context in which I asked a particular question. Did any of you face this situation?

Has there been any audit of @lmstudio ? I know it is free and all. But is it safe? Does it leak any info? Or is it just "Trust me bro"? I like it. I am using it. The more I grow with it, the more I have this question.

I'm thrilled to hit 40k pageviews on my blog this year: https://t.co/WzH6XUoKRu I write mainly for self-improvement, not sales, so I haven't worried about traffic. While 40k is a nice nod to my work, it doesn't alter my goals. You can start here: https://t.co/Fqyl2XJDce… https://t.co/tjnTVXSNSa

Learning to see ... One thing I teach to my boys is photography. Learning to see is an important factor in capturing good photos. The shades, light, angles, composition ... all contribute to an artistic photo. This one is captured by my younger one. Tell me how is it? https://t.co/WE7W2MSSTf

SM Krishna, Chandrababu Naidu, MMS all teach one thing .... People prosper because of development. But people don't vote based on development. I hope DMK is also focusing on re-election. https://t.co/g8loaCFKsz

Apparently today is Men’s Day. How far the definition of “hard life” has shifted. Our grandfathers went to war, farmed unforgiving land, raised a dozen kids, buried friends, argued for democracy, and still showed up the next morning because life didn’t give them a pause button.… https://t.co/1aMKxJtJFI

What do you do when things you take for granted are down. On another note, billion dollar company sites are down. Don't panic your site is down too. https://t.co/CNcfbABuMn

Education was supposed to be about making a person Today it is only about making a living

How to Grow Your Career When You Feel Stuck in Legacy Tech Many developers in IT services find themselves maintaining legacy systems—managing ticket queues, fixing bugs, and applying small patches. After years of this, you might question whether your career has stalled. Is my… https://t.co/8RafBumai6

This caught me from recent @guptar piece here: https://t.co/BwsY71IYse Though this is regarding the election, I am approaching this as a CXO of an IT organization. Every leader faces this conundrum: Should they persist despite negative feedback, or should they move on? There… https://t.co/UJp3sCtahk

> Critical business questions are almost always critical talent questions A CXO really has only two levers to pull, money and talent. And money is the easy one. You send it somewhere and it goes there quietly, without opinions or mood swings. Talent is where the drama lives.… https://t.co/CGTBxGkgBS

It seems the gap between what marketing wants and what IT can deliver is a problem even Meta faces. Meta's product managers aren't waiting for engineers to turn ideas into demos. Instead, they are vibe coding to design prototype apps themselves. https://t.co/PAz8lDg5dL

"100 Ideas from Books" is gaining popularity on my site. I began posting one idea from each book I've read that has shaped my thinking. It has already attracted much traffic. If you're interested, read more here: https://t.co/Fqyl2XJDce https://t.co/ASvcZZv9tf

My First Overseas Presentation for a "Faculty Development Program" I presented on "Human Oversight in AI-Driven Educational Systems" for the Department of Engineering & Technology at UTAS, Oman. https://t.co/KWT7txBOUX

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The key to meaningful life is not to discard The Box of Daily Experience and find a new one — it’s to warmly embrace the one that we have now — with its joys, its flaws, and everything in between. https://t.co/SbCCyT25g7

"looked into the abyss" ... Looking into the abyss destroys that person but heals the broken, and pisses off the righteous. https://t.co/BUrahQI6o1

When you feel powerless against AI slop, the best remedy is to read a well-crafted dark-humor essay on an important topic and smile. Abhishaike makes you smile while writing about biology. https://t.co/Hbkyxevq6o Read a random interesting essay to reflect:… https://t.co/eRo8P1m8lZ

Kobo Plus > Amazon Kindle Unlimited Kobo is filled with genuinely useful books that I want to read. https://t.co/6GGUjg2BY6

Apparently when US MNCs layoff citing AI, it means "Always Indian" https://t.co/IMos7rJiVr

See how different personas will interact with your marketing https://t.co/NXWtQ7jon0 Define personas Test your copy against them (there are few other tools too) https://t.co/inHUvtLAJg

Just three important insights for parents • You are a shepherd, not an engineer of your kids. • Just because little bit is good doesn't mean more is more good • Where you live has more impact on kids than in-home environment Watch: https://t.co/hDPluGu9Kt

Hi @DellAnnaLuca If I were to start with one of your books, which one would you recommend I should start with? https://t.co/CfYxUfpXIQ

Python is the 2nd popular language for doing anything with respect to software development https://t.co/V153khHGgj

Jaw dropping marketing insight for me: 90% of marketing budgets go toward acquiring new customers, while only 10% is allocated to retention. I always assumed marketing is only about getting new customers. That is not true. Marketing is about engaging with customers. That's why…

> My father used the immediate to prepare us for the future. Before becoming a father, I read a line that made me pause. It prompted me to envision how I could embody its wisdom when my time came. This wisdom is profound, as it connects two timeframes: the immediate and the… https://t.co/8K4lD8wqgX

What Kind of Country Does India Want to Be? One of my favorite Indian public policy authors explores this question against the backdrop of the recent Nobel Prize in economics. Joel Mokyr’s central insight is that progress relies not just on knowledge or capital, but on culture.… https://t.co/WGeiiHMdPs