Daily Reading List – June 11, 2025 (#566)
A few more talks today, including some memorable ones at our Nordics Summit. One more full day, then finally back home. Meanwhile, the reading backlog is slowly shrinking!
[blog] On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not. The answer is probably “immediately” as Charity encourages us to trust our intuition and exit roles that are the wrong fit.
[article] Is Your Flexible Schedule Burning You Out? Are you always partially on and off? Avoiding clear working boundaries to avoid upsetting people? Stop doing that!
[blog] Deploy your ADK Agent to Agent Engine with a Single Command. This is nice, and now you can quickly deploy agents to both Cloud Run and Vertex AI Agent Engine with one command. Or, do what I’ve been doing and containerize the agent so that it just runs anywhere.
[blog] Please Don’t Write Another Event Recap Until You Read This Post. Is your low-interest content too focused on you and your company? Adam suggests focusing your material on user/developer problems to attract an audience.
[blog] My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. Hot take, but not much I can find to disagree with. See what you think.
[blog] Simulate a zonal failure on Autopilot. You want to test out a scenario where a cloud managed service loses a region? Not super easy. William offers a technique to simulate a zonal failure.
[article] AI skills shortage surpasses big data, cybersecurity. Leaders, stop lamenting and start investing! Boost your training budget, host hackathons, and incentivize certifications.
[blog] Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark: high-performance, unified with BigQuery. On-demand Spark for your analytic workloads? Super cool, and now generally available.
[blog] The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles. This is the benchmark that truly matters!
[article] 75 inspirational leadership quotes you haven’t heard yet. If you need a boost, skim through a few of these.
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