If we do this, what are we not doing?
Context: perfecting the art of managing up, and in particular, reporting to the board of directors. Another great podcast episode from The Knowledge Project/Farnam Street in which they touch on various topics, but one caught my attention. At a certain point they talk about a period of underperformance and this sentence caught my attention: I understand what you are doing and why you’re doing it, and I understand what you are not doing and why you are not doing it. See you next month. And I was thinking at the current AI hype, but then again I think it applies to any hype in technology, as we seem to experience this on a pretty regular basis (AI, crypto, microservices, big data, cloud, nosql, SOA, etc). So I think in the future I'll borrow this practice and, in addition to covering what we do, I'll also cover what we are not doing and why . On the theme of AI a couple of data points that I think are relevant: looking at impact of AI on financial results . I mean, at the end,...