A very friendly and welcoming bunch over at #KiwiPyCon, not to mention the awesome talks! My highlights:

- a keynote which involved the history of the Luddites
- using 2025 AI to connect 1925 phones
- parsing all the documents with Dockling

Sorry I don't know your handles on here to tag you!

"Seek real feedback. Every one of us has something that is holding us back that is obvious to other people. Don't you want to know what that is?"

- the inspirational @cate.bsky.social

Feedback is the ultimate gift. The ability to receive it without ego is the second.

The term "AI Psychosis" has been appearing in the media more and more, describing people who suffer from delusions about reality brought on by interacting with LLMs.

But are they really the ones who are delusional?

#ai #society #chatbots #technology

www.developdeploydeliver.com/blog/article...

Yikes, I need to read 13 more books this year to meet my #reading #challenge goal. Seems like a lot!

Anyone else on here set themselves a yearly reading challenge?

Listening to @cduhigg.bsky.social talk about communication on podcasts is fascinating. Learning about:

- 3 types of conversation and how to recognise them
- "looping for understanding" to connect & align with the other participants

I think I need to start some better habits... And read the book!

I learn a lot from reading software books that would be considered "old" now. Almost "last generation". But it's so enlightening seeing the original thoughts laid down, which are mostly still valid.

Thanks @kentbeck.com for the continued inspiration.

www.developdeploydeliver.com/blog/article...

Recently finished this. It now has a lot of highlighted passages!

A quote from James Clear's newsletter today:

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

I'm reading "Ego is the Enemy" by @ryan-holiday.bsky.social, and this seems to overlap.

Ego = over-confidence = your enemy

I'm learning that curation is key 😊

Almost finished reading "Tiny Experiments" by @neuranne.bsky.social

Important words:

"progress is defined not only by what you learn, but also by the positive impact you create."

Absolutely. I'm looking for positive impact. Hopefully the lessons in this book on following my creativity will help!

First post on Bluesky. Let's hope it's better than Twitter!

Planning on posting thoughts on self-improvement, my CTO journey and software engineering.

Join in!