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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 3: The Business as an Entity

    In Part 2 with dived into Eliezer Yudkowski’s theory of Coherent Extrapolated Volition and examined the component parts of the idea that, “our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew mor...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 2: Coherent Extrapolated Volition

    In Part 1 we reviewed two key foundational theories of AI safety and how they relate to strategic planning in business. Instrumental convergence tells us that there will be potentially unforeseen and ...

    Podcast: Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on Code Rewrites, Acquisitions, Observability, and Team Performance

    Charles Humble talks to Honeycomb CTO and co-founder Charity Majors. They talk about her experience at Parse, re-writing Parse in Go, and her lessons from Parse’s acquisition and shut-down by Facebook...

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    The Five As of Consciousness (And Workshop Planning)

    The science and art of workshop design, in my admittedly biassed opinion, is something that is rarely given enough attention and thought. More often than not, a room is booked for a day, Post-its are ...

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    Container Solutions and Isovalent Announce Strategic Partnership to Help Customers Unlock Cloud Native Innovation with Cilium and eBPF

    London and Cupertino – 5th April 2023 – Container Solutions, the leading independent cloud-native consultancy in Europe, and Isovalent, the creators of Cilium, today announce their strategic delivery ...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 1: Foundations

    We publish this series of blogs as Microsoft has just launched its combination of ChatGPT and Bing, generating considerable excitement in almost every industry. Dall-E and ChatGPT (and, most recently,...

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    What We Do @CS: The Yin and Yang of Technical and Organisational Change

    At Container Solutions, we often work with customers who approach us saying they need a Cloud Native Transformation because they are not able to deliver fast enough. Typically, a leader will tell us t...

    WTFinar (with transcript): When (If Ever) is Cloud Repatriation the Right Move?

    With a few notable exceptions, the traffic of workload movement over the past decade has moved firmly one way: from the data centre to the cloud.

    Podcast: Jennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE

    Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, ...