The four O’s of simple strategy
- Objectives – What do we want to achieve?
- Obstacles – What gets in the way of us achieving it?
- Opportunities – What could we do to remove the obstacles?
- Outcomes – How will we know when we’ve achieved what we want to?
AI side effects
Maybe a medium term effect of orgs investing in AI is that they’ll realise they need to stop treating the humans like machines and invest in them as people.
OKRs are a mindset
“OKRs are a mindset. They exist to help you make choices about what to build and what not to build. The team needed a different guiding principle – and I didn’t know exactly what it was, but it needed them to think more deeply about why they were doing this work.”
Heat Death of the Internet
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/
Not to be pedantic but this article describes the world wide world not the Internet. While this dystopian future emerges for the humans using the web, there’s a golden age for the machines using the Internet. Sensors livestream the status of every streetlight in world, the levels of microplastics in the ocean, the heart rate and step count of millions of people. Powerful machine learning algorithms analyse huge amount of data and spot patterns showing how the physical world is interconnected in ways beyond human comprehension.