Martin K Barland

@barmartland.bsky.social

Head of Data & Insight by day. Feedback community: CoAmplio.com Thoughts and observation canvas: odditorium.xyz Too many interests to list.

Sometimes I just need a place to put down random thoughts, fun observations or other things. And I hate lists for that. And it's fun to listen to and talk about others thoughts and observations. So I made odditorium.xyz to create one big canvas for random thoughts. #buildInPublic

odditorium — a shared canvas of half-finished thoughts

A shared canvas of half-finished thoughts. No feed, no followers, no algorithm deciding what you see.

odditorium.xyz

As someone with kids I absolutely HATE the thought of more devices that can take images and video without them knowing about it. These kids already have enough to think about than having to fear that someone might be filming everything they do.

In some ways I am still blown away by what f.ex Claude can help me with. I was looking for a blog post I remembered, but hadn't saved. I was unable to google it myself, but Claude was bang on right away even with a relatively weak description.

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I popped into LinkedIn today only to learn that 11 experts on AI have used one year to gove the advice that AI is not about technology, it's about people... Back to this view I guess and stay there for some more weeks😎

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Everytime our security team sends a phishing test the devil in me just want to click that god damn link instead of reporting it. It is so much more tempting when you know it's a test than when you get an actual phishing mail!

Slack bots that can answer questions. Are they actually useful long term, or mainly fun to create, gets some use right away and then are forgotten? And if you have an organization where someone is in Slack and some in Teams, do you want to dive into the adventure of Team Bots as well?

As many times when I am home alone after the kids have gone to bed I today as well sat down by the computer thinking about making something. Except today I didn't get further than opening Spotify, press play and then sit still and just listen. (Until writing this, and now I am going to bed)

Today I recieved a document that initially look very neatly organized. The problem was that I already had read documentation on the subject and this new document I am 90% was someone putting what I had already read into chatgpt to summarize it. Timelines broke, language felt unatural. Felt weird.

Today someone said: "I am not structured, like you are". To me this is the most obvious place where I am able to fake it until I make it. I am the COMPLETE opposite. My notes are scattered, things are messy. But I am able to boil things down, and get super concrete when needed pretty quickly.

This is one of those things I realized when I first tried Youtube Premium. For a lot of videos you don't really need the video at all. And then at some points you want the video to f.ex understand more context. So the audio vs video just boils down to personal preference.

Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland@patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Not your point exactly, but related, most video could be a pod, in that the visual content is low. I do not need to see your face, but am keen to see graphs, charts, maps, images, that’s support the argument.

If you don't have a chat like this, are you even optimizing the session length with Claude? (The session starts when you write something, so I typically start my day by writing something just to start a session)

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Man... I had forgotten how deep into the "What will be the beauty standards after some generations of living on Mars" rabbit hole I had gone in the past! I have an entire presentation planned out! And why did Midjourney want the woman to have capes? (When everyone knows Edna says: No capes!)

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Today on the treadmill I thought: "Am I able to sing while running? Will that make it more fun?" The answer to both was probably yes, but then I was done and was met with a message from my wife saying "that is the strangest thing I've ever hear". So triple #win i guess!😂