Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 20, 2016

For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them. An hour later I had a bunch of scrapy scripts pulling down fonts and a few days later I had more than 50k fonts on my computer. I then decided to convert it to bitmaps. It turns out this is a bit trickier than it might seem like. You need to crop in such a way that each character of a font is vertically aligned, and scale everything to fit the bitmap.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” Doris Day. We have all been there. Someone does not do something we asked him or her to do and we get fired up. We are the leader after all, shouldn’t our team or followers do what we asked?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 20, 2016

My husband looked at me in bewilderment as I explained why I couldn’t buy that “perfectly good” house in the neighborhood with the great schools, close to his work, UMD where I teach, BWI airport, our church, and our gym. “I love the house. It’s a great community. But I just can’t trust that builder. If they hire someone LIKE HER as their sales manager, I question who’s running the place.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2016

What are the 10 qualities that make a great leader, and a more human one too? What are those attitudes and attributes that reside deep in the hearts and souls of those who step into the arena and lead their teams to the More Human success trifecta – a great business, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader ? In my view it boils down to these 10 things – together, the essence of great leadership.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2016

Bob Gourley. An article posted in the Ukrainian news services TSN reported that massive outages suffered in the country were caused by highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine. The site reported that the only way to restore power was to return to manual methods, something that may be hard to do in other nations (including the U.S.).

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 7, 2016

The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language. A motivated 10x engineer in one team could be a demotivated 0.5x engineer in another team (and vice versa). A average 1x engineer could easily become a 5x engineer if surrounded by 10x engineers.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 8, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.” Charles S. Lauer. Setting the example is a primary function of every leader. We speak of this 24/7/365 activity with statements like, “lead from the front, large and in charge, out front all the time, and on the front line to name a few.” I have always bel

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 4, 2016

If only you had a crystal ball. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Should you stay? Should you go? Is that project realistic? What if they reorganize… again? Are you getting the whole story? What You Do Know About 2016. There’s much you can’t possible predict.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2016

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

By Brody Clemmer. Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth. Leadership is a hot topic today and will continue to be for a while. I don’t want to tell you the things that you already know, but make you think about the things you don’t. Let’s stop discussing trends, predictions, and statistics, and let’s focus on people. The individuals that will shape the next generation of leadership are not a group of millennials, they are a group of leaders just as the generation before them, and the many generati

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

Rick Delgado. The cloud has evolved quickly. Businesses have weighed the perks of private, public, and even hybrid clouds. If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 24, 2016

My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site while I was sleeping, and then obviously vanished from HN before I woke up. But it also got retweeted by a ton of people. This clearly constitutes another proof of how effective animated gifs are. There’s some stuff out there on the internet that I think is about 10x cooler than my blog post: Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow – blog post from a few weeks

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General Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen. During the 1950-1953 Korean War, American fighter pilots dominated the skies, even though the Soviet-made MiG-15 jets were faster and more nimble than the American F-80 and F-86s.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2016

When I ask managers where they regret not spending enough time, unequivocally, the number one answer is “Not spending enough time developing my people.” There never seems to be enough time, or resources, or support from above, or fill in your favorite blank here _. And yet when I ask managers to identify one thing they KNOW would improve their results, you guessed it… the same answer, “If only I had more time to develop my people.” Perhaps you’ve felt that way

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2016

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2016

It was a conversation that forever changed my vision of “ corporate leadership “, and put me on the more human path. It also taught me the immense value of an open heart and mind. The funny thing was, it wasn’t a chat with a boss, or a mentor, or a teacher that set me straight. It wasn’t a concerned friend or colleague who wanted to pass along helpful advice.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 26, 2016

Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist or if you love thinking about the incredible future we can build for ourselves you no doubt already track the very interesting Marc Andreessen. His open sharing of views and context via his blog , on YouTube and his Twitter Feed are a great source of information for those seeking insights into the emerging tech scene and we recommend following him there for continuous context.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 24, 2016

My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site while I was sleeping, and then obviously vanished from HN before I woke up. But it also got retweeted by a ton of people. This clearly constitutes another proof of how effective animated gifs are. There’s some stuff out there on the internet that I think is about 10x cooler than my blog post: Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow – blog post from a few weeks

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General Leadership

JANUARY 20, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.” B.F. Skinner. What is a reinforcing leader? Do you know any reinforcing leaders? How do you become a reinforcing leader?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2016

If you’re like me, at this point, the holiday hoopla already feels like a distant memory; you’re invigorated by the possibilities for the year ahead; and perhaps just a bit overwhelmed by the the stretch-goals in front of you. You’re neck-deep in planning and goal setting. If you’re a people manager, you’re likely meeting with your team to establish performance agreements and developmental plans.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2016

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 12, 2016

When we think of the term “Change Agent,” we typically think the word “agent” means catalyst: a force or substance that causes change. After all, we’re the ones who get things done, right? We instigate change and keep the energy going to see the change come to fruition. However, there’s an alternate definition of “agent” we should consider when talking about change agents: a representative.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

Bob Gourley. Shivon Zilis is an investor at Bloomberg Beta , a very interesting early stage venture capital fund. I knew I would like Bloomberg Beta when I saw how they do their website. It is smart and reflects very well on their leadership team: They decided to leverage GitHub for their site. Doing so puts them one step closer to the creators that a VC in their space needs to know and is a great way to step out in a trust-based relationship.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JANUARY 20, 2016

For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them. An hour later I had a bunch of scrapy scripts pulling down fonts and a few days later I had more than 50k fonts on my computer. I then decided to convert it to bitmaps. It turns out this is a bit trickier than it might seem like. You need to crop in such a way that each character of a font is vertically aligned, and scale everything to fit the bitmap.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 14, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Benjamin Franklin. You know that feeling you get when you drive away from the gas station after gassing up? It feels like you have the potential to go anywhere and accomplish anything.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 8, 2016

Leadership development is not just for grown-ups. If you’ve been with me for a while you know how passionate I am about this. Most of us take a deliberate approach to developing other skills in our kids early on: we teach them to swim, to ride a bike, to read, and read music, as early as we can. Leadership development should be no different. The earlier we can ingrain these skills, the more natural they will feel.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 15, 2016

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 26, 2016

When the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP®) first introduced the idea of a change management standard, I was intrigued. I liked the idea of enlisting the wisdom of the profession to develop common approaches that work. I personally participated by providing feedback on the original draft. While many of my suggestions were adopted into the current version, The Standard for Change Management© still has some major flaws: It’s too generic to be truly helpful, and yet can’t be spe

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