Another year, another round of shoes

The 2021 GDD Nikes are here!

If you love sales, I’d love to chat with you.

Know somebody in your network that does? Ping them in the comments!

#thankyou

The hypocrisy: Facebook drives engagement — hence revenue — by promoting inflammatory — often false — content.

Needless to say, COVID-19 conspiracy theories spread like wildfire on Facebook.

And then they “donate” €100M of free ads to European governments to share authoritative COVID-19 info.

Shameless.

https://about.fb.com/europe

A meetup in French or a French meetup?

Come hear Steven Coltman grill me about business and AI. Steven promised me it will NOT be an easy ride for me, so if you enjoy seeing me crack under stress, tune in to hear more about how AI can add value to companies

https://www.meetup.com/artificial-intelligence-business-meetup-group/events/278134938/

Instagram user?

Here’s the level of details they know about you

https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/

Beautiful thread on scams in the crypto world, including the ‘moral hazard’ term

If you invest other people’s money there’s a well-known perverse incentive to take on riskier positions because the incentive of your pay is performance-based and tied to outsized returns. And you personally see none of the downside if the positions fail.

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1388795663077543937

Sharing knowledge is in the DNA of GoDataDriven and the Academy.

And we can’t wait to do it on the world stage, at PyCon US 2021: our very own Marysia Winkels will hold as session about Time Series.

I’d be there if I were you, Marysia really knows her stuff

https://us.pycon.org/2021/schedule/presentation/29/

love leaked memos

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/04/08/a-leaked-memo-from-a-chief-impact-officer

it’s snowing again in Amsterdam 🥶

Whenever I read Wikipedia, I get the same feeling I had when I read “Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften”.

You want to know more about the grand unifying concept, but all you read is “an Inquiry for the Drafting of a Guiding Resolution to Ascertain the Desires of the Concerned Sections of the Population.'

Today’s example is the Wikipedia page for ITIL:

“ITIL describes processes, procedures, tasks, and checklists which are neither organization-specific nor technology-specific, but can be applied by an organization toward strategy, delivering value, and maintaining a minimum level of competency. It allows the organization to establish a baseline from which it can plan, implement, and measure. It is used to demonstrate compliance and to measure improvement.”

Could have been written by Robert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL