Some leftover chores. I setup Calendly as my meeting scheduler, with Google Meet for web conferencing (I contemplated Jitsi but that does not integrate in Calendly as smoothly); I installed the Excalidraw plugin for Obsidian. It’s insane. Especially in combination with a tablet and a stylus pen. Madness; Hugo supports emojis short codes: 🦊 Hugo emojis quick reference 🦉 ; Prompt engineering to skill engineering to context engineering to loop engineering to graph engineering. And I probably missed some. There’s a new MUST HAVE skill every month in the wonderful world of LLMs. Apparently LangChain and LangGraph are the tools to use. So I wachted the LangChain vs LangGraph video from the IBM series on AI. I like their AI videos. (spoiler: LangChain and LangGraph are both graphs. But LangChain is a directed and acyclic graph, a DAG). Update on Calendly: ...

Bootstrapping This Hollow Earth. I want to know if the AI hype is real. To find out, I decided to start using AI in my day to day workflow. The idea is as follows: I am consulting about technology, product development, organisations and environmental supply chain risk. Great, but there are many people doing that and claiming to be good. How do you know if I’m for real or full of shit? By show, don’t tell. I build products and show how I do it. To build (design, engineer, ship, market, sell) the products, I will use AI. Using AI to build products allows me to learn and evaluate. I write about my adventures and publish them to exploit the teachers paradox. So, to get us started, we need 2 things: ...

Launch time. Technology, Human Systems, Environment. I soft launched the new version of thishollow.earth today. New theme, new content, new streams, same me. new landing page familiar blog stream (this newsletter) new products & concepts stream new solutions page, outlining the 3 pillars (technology, human systems, environment), each with their own product show case CYNTHIA, BERT, WALTER new about page with profile, expertise,experience and how to get in touch new tech notes stream long form essay stream (TBA, in parallel from medium) scalpel stream (TBA) It’s far from finished. It’s full of errors and mistakes and omissions. But it’s something, it’s good enough and it’s live. This is part of the bootstrapping ThisHollowEarth. After bootstrapping, I will start building the products, setup a Go To Market (GTM) plan, focus on branding, visuals and design, do optimisation / tweaking / security / legal / finance and then rinse and repeat. ...

Bert’s Enterprise Readiness Templates Shift Left Enterprise Readiness

From environmental landscape risk to product environmental passport, a pipeline.