Information About O’Faolain

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m a satisficer, an embracer of the good-enough-for-now. I do not know when that started but it’s certainly a perspective I feel that I’ve had for most of my career. It may stem from being someone who works with technology which often breaks without an obvious cause. You can … Read more »

Reading Time: 7 minutes I am a little bit fascinated by the Anthropic-initiated Skills concept. In my mind’s eye, it fixes two of the significant problems with professional use of agentic AI (and generative AI): lack of expertise and lack of re-usability. The gap that I am unsure how to cross is mov … Read more »

Reading Time: 6 minutes I have been using Mastodon for over three years now and have no regrets. I’m aware of confirmation bias in this matter but it still feels right. I was ready to take the next step, which was to try to run my own Mastodon instance. It’s still early days but I am pretty sure thi … Read more »

Reading Time: 8 minutes Most people I know are paid for time. It’s an artificial contract. Notionally, I am paid for 40 hours of work a week. There is some expectation that those 40 hours will occur within a specific schedule, like 9am to 5pm. Employers pay me for my time because they have neither t … Read more »

Reading Time: 6 minutes I was talking with some colleagues recently about leadership and management. Both had new managers. In one case, the person had joined a new team with a seasoned manager. In the other, an existing team had received a person new to management. They were having very different e … Read more »