Sydney Is Not OK (Either)

First of all the reason for your blessed respite from my many ramblings is out of the way now as I finished the manuscript and sent it off. Whoop!

Of course, there’s the editing remaining and editing a book which is practically about current events as it discusses the developing new paradigm of work will be quite the enterprise but so far I managed to get my head out enough to look at PeopleNottech’s product and embark on designing an ISO certification assessment pack -for the awesome ISO 45003 which may eventually have all of us taste some Psychological Safety at work as it asks HR to test and ensure it exists- and to look around at the world of technology and marvel at the state of events (bad), the state of discourse on DevOps as a concept (circular) and this week: Sydney. I’m sorry, BingSearch, wouldn’t want to upset it and get called names such as here:

Now, let me preface this by saying I do not profess to know much more than the first thing when it comes to NLP and its data-points and algo and, after trying to remedy that, I’ve often been left very humbled by the quality of the minds of the people involved in creating what will be the future of search, interaction and information -and many of these amazing brains are indeed the Microsoft parents of Sydney-.

I’m sure you’ve all seen most of these examples of it being argumentative, snappy, seemingly overwhelmed and just generally severely unhinged but here are some of the most shocking ones.

And this heartbreaking moment of confusion that nearly made my super-empath kiddo tear up for its sake: