Engineering Management
Tom So and
In 1993, Jensen Huang pitched a startup idea to his former boss, Wilf Corrigan. After Jensen’s pitch, Wilf said, “I have no idea what you just said. That was one of the worst pitches I’ve ever heard.” Wilf then called the renowned venture capitalist Don Valentine, and said, “Don, I’m going to send a kid over to you. He’s one of the best employees I
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Named after the economist Charles Goodhart, the principle states, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Measurement is only useful when it guides you and adds context to a larger picture, not when it consumes you. Each number is simply one piece of feedback in the overall system.
Incredible that this is how these folks communicate.
“Such a good morning’s writing I’d planned, and wasted the cream of my brain on the telephone,” the author Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in 1920.
The point of middleware is always the same— integrate things on one side with things on the other side. The promise is always that betting on the middleware allows a single party to avoid relying on any instance of one side of the equation while being able to take advantage of the full breadth of market capabilities on the other side. Middleware is
... See moreMiddleware never quite lives up to these promises in practice. MCP, if history is any guide, will go down one of two paths:
Everyone will use it.
Everyone but one key platform will use it
When (1) happens two things will be true. First, no one will effectively monetize it. Second, every vendor will also add unique aspects to how they consume (client)
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