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Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as one of the most intriguing and influential technological advancements in recent years…

Over the past several years I've made it a mission to forge an interdisciplinary team ethos and supporting working model. An "Interdisciplinary Team" is all about finding the sweet spot between doing your own thing and working together.

Flattening Hierarchies: How AI is Reshaping Organizational Structures "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert…

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott critically examines the ideology that leads to centralized planning, the disregard for local systems, and ultimately failure and devestating consequences. The book offers insights into the dangers of overreliance on top-down approaches and the importance of local knowledge in governance.

Having a "genuine" vision refers to a deeply held and authentic aspiration or goal that resonates strongly with the members of an…

AI in job application and recruitment processes, and the importance of maintaining healthy skepticism and human oversight

ChatSG introduces new features - Trending Topics and Government Website Search, enhancing user experience. These features highlight the synergy between technology and human knowledge, ensuring users receive timely updates and can easily access reliable official government websites, reducing reliance on unverified sources.

Facing a software programming skills shortage, businesses are turning to global hiring strategies. Safeguard Global expanded its tech team fourfold using a geography-unbound approach, tapping into talent from 22 countries, including regions like Turkey. This diverse approach resulted not only in team growth but also in increased product releases and improved quality. For a successful global team, companies should prioritize talent quality over cost and be open to diverse experiences and flexible work models.

At Safeguard Global, we’re on a journey of continuous exploration. I couldn’t be more proud of the creativity, innovation, and vision that…

In a recent episode of the "PeopleTech" podcast, I had a discussion with Mark Feffer about the evolution and prominence of AI in the HR and business landscapes. I emphasized how AI has discreetly been part of our daily lives for a while but has only now begun to truly captivate the global audience, spurring a burst of innovation. I also introduced our latest endeavor at Safeguard Global, ChatSG, an AI application grounded in natural language processing that taps into our expansive HR expertise spanning 170 countries.

Published on The CTO Show In the recent podcast episode, I had the opportunity to discuss the vital role of AI in HR Tech and the…

A rundown of several ROI measures, common costs and benefits, and a few things I like to keep in mind when going through this exercise.

Technology leaders long assumed that physical proximity is critical to innovation and outsourcing is for grunt work. Safeguard CTO Duri Chitayat, says hiring developers everywhere will give you surprising results. With the right strategy, borderless development teams excel.

Speaking with William from the Use Case Podcast about how Safeguard Global enables Global Talent through Technology, Local Market Expertise, and Service

Agile organizations are team-first. Experts work together cross-functionally, and take independent action aligned to objectives. Traditional organizations focus on senior individuals who are responsible for directing activity to people at "lower levels" of the organization.

The announcement that Tesla employees return to the office or be fired is an interesting move for a company that prides itself on innovation…

A good demo is quick (minutes). If you have a lot of features, break up the demo by user scenarios. Spend time on only the important information. Most importantly, get engagement from the audience.

The case for why Microservice architectural style is a good fit for large, complex applications, and some of the important patterns that can be used to implement and maintain it.

David Benjamin and David Komlos provide a practical approach to improving organizations leveraging insights from complexity science.

I like to work synchronously and accompany conversations with white boarding or some simple visuals. Somehow using multiple comms channels…

Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal presents a modern approach to leading organizations that are responsive and adaptive - two qualities critical when facing into a complex environment.

Cloud Native Patterns by Cornellia Davis is about defining the cloud native term as a set of application development priorities towards fault-tolerance, availability, and scalability. In it, the author explains several popular design patterns for designing cloud native applications.

Quantum Computing is an emerging technology designed to perform complex computations in a fraction of the time it takes a classical supercomputer. Underneath this promise lies a solid technological, engineering, and scientific value proposition that can disrupt existing markets and support the emergence of new socio-technical systems that were previously unimaginable.

System Design Interview was written by Alex Xu initially as a guide to the System Design Interview and later as more of a survey of the essential concepts and patterns that one might use in high level software architecture design.

A case and analysis of GE’s FastWorks initiative. Borrowing concepts from Silicon Valley titans like Eric Ries, FastWorks sought to redefine how GE identified, executed, and financed products. What happened?

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais detail an approach plus useful patterns for software development organizations moving from a siloed org chart, to value-oriented system, to ultimately a dynamic evolving system.

Site Reliability Engineering explains how Google runs production systems at scale. It is a compilation of articles which balance theory and practice. It is a companion to generalized DevOps theory, showing what a digital native DevOps implementation looks like.

Origin Stories help illustrate and anchor a new paradigm in a way that's organic and personal to the people involved.

Agile practices include holding regular retrospectives, blameless port-mortems, and open town-halls. These forums have their benefits and their drawback.

There is a difference between empathy and compassion. If our goal is to understand then we empathize. If our goal is to care then we feel compassion.

Collision 2018 brought 3000+ startups together with with over 20,000 attendees. The event was well-organized. At night, New Orleans took care of the rest. Her are my 3 takeaways.

The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, & John Willis presents the goals, principles, culture, and high-priority technical practices of DevOps.

Introduction to the Hypothesis Driven Development approach for product development.

Eric Ries in The Startup Way - an enterprise focused successor to The Lean Startup - argues that innovation is a management discipline that can be developed in Large Established Organizations.

Problem solving is important, but the ultimate problem solver is a team with Momentum. If we consider what momentum is, then we might be able to develop it.

The product development backlog is a big, bloated, unwieldy, mix of ideas. These "like to haves" and low priority improvements are a cognitive pollution that needs to go.

This presentation applies systems thinking to explain the common anti-pattern that promotes an addiction to busy work. I draw a lot from the Build Trap and Stephan Bungay's Art of Action.

"Lead with Intent" is at the core of most modern leadership philosophies. However most managers are still confused on exactly how to do it…

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Words cannot express my gratitude to the amazing people I've worked with over the last 3 and a half years at Pixafy and Net@Work. Wish i had…

Fantasy appreciates the limitations of normal perception and re-imagines the human condition. It tests our belief in things that are…

So day 2 was a lot of fun. My goal leading into the conference was to focus my attention on learning as much as I could on three topics I…

Okay so the first few sessions in the books here are some of the things I've learned at this years Magento Imagine conference. Magento vs…

Last year's Magento Imagine Conference was great but I don't think I got everything out of it that I could have. This year, to get the most…

http://tutorialzine.com/2014/07/20-impressive-css3-techniques-libraries-and-examples/ Libraries Bootstrap Bootstrap is a mobile responsive…

Programming is a craft. At its simplest, it comes down to getting a computer to do what you want it to do (or what your user wants it to do…

People in Tech are creative, self-motivated, and self-organizing. Leading in a tech company requires vision, values, and communication. The…

The New York Times article titled “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” ignited a lot of debate over the weekend. One…

When our team grew our matrix structure met significant challenges. Instead of adding more functional managers or additional management…

This is a question I often have, how long should a sales cycle be? It of course depends on what kind of project, what kind of development…

This post is part of the series: Managing the Professional Service Firm. Managers of professional service firms face many challenges. This…

This post is part of a series called Managing the Professional Service Firm. Managers of professional service firms face many challenges…

This post is part of a series called Managing the Professional Service Firm. Managers of professional service firms face many challenges…

This post is part of a series called Managing the Professional Service Firm. Managers of professional service firms face many challenges…

Mid-level managers rarely have strategic objectives, tactical goals, and autonomy handed to them. Mid-level managers should collaborate with…

A3 Thinking is a great way to diagnose problems  and communicate an action plan in a concise and easy to communicate format that is (among…

Expectation, that is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects then he will laud you his entire life. If can create…

This slideshare does an excellent job of introducing the concept: Rapid and Responsive - UX to Prototype with Bootstrap from Josh Jeffryes…

Happy New Years

Post-Impression Hudson, a new "Look", just launched today on We See Beauty. This is a site we're very proud of and it has a lot to do with…

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According to Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success, it takes someone 10,000 hours of practice to perfect a skill, so the…

Working on tightening up my user stories, i came across this pretty decent video by Rally. It weaves in their a bit much APP but still a…

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Completed this client project including this custom Shopify website today, some graphic design, and general ecommerce consulting. Very happy…

A new logo concept design I'm working on for a client. Comments welcome!

So in response to feedback and analytics we decided to make some changes to the Pixelated Solutions website design. The primary updates…

The Challenge Starting from Monday October 29th I'm taking on an SEO challenge: I will work hard for 45 days to gain serious SEO cred for my…

Great video about visualizing a business model, an important step i'm going through at the moment. It makes talking about it easier and…

Pixelated Solutions is an out-of-the-box digital agency. It's organized as adigital collective dedicated to bringing creativity and delivery…

I'm working on a campaign for a new Initiative called Trillion Watt Project. The mission is to save the planet more than 1 Trillion Watts…

These days it seems like every day I meet someone starting a business with a revolutionary new business model to reshape the product…

Great tut on how to create responsive websites. I have been doing some research on this since a lot of the Javascript gits a la 2009 don't…

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Here is a quick picture of of the Warmup last Thursday. It was in preparation of a weekend-long machup / convention / live-world-experiment…

Probably not as big a deal as some of the blogs are making it sound (some make it sound pretty serious), but have a copy of your passport…

I know that everyone in China has experienced this often. You go to google, type in your search term, and get your results (sometimes…

Here's a new look at WihlborgDesign.com. Will launch in the next couple days... Very earthy. Comments welcome!

ScrumGathering. Its June 7-9 .. hardcore types .. good lineup of speakers. a litle pricey but worth it. A number of the presentations will…

Wondering what Black Hat SEO is and how its changed over time? Here you go. "Black Hat SEO Evolution"

Screenshot from a new branding and development project Shanghai Teachers. Feedback welcome!

Those who know me know I love Google. I'm the guy that uses google chrome. Wears google tshirts. And sets his browser search to google even…

Today, in case you weren't aware, marks the first ever English Mechup hosted by Technode in Beijing. The goal of the event was what you'd…

Just returned from a great night of Pecha Kucha sponsored by Dutch Design week in Shanghai. First i have to say it was an awesome crowd. I…

I've expressed interest in many things through the years, including but not limited to: wizarding powers a robot body The iThink (the apple…

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I think I can safely say I'm going to like this.

Okay so SXSW Interactive is over, it was by all accounts awesome... AND I MISSED IT. Darn. It hosts the cutting edge startups and…

This project is a work in progress. Looking forward to getting it up for everyone to see

Groopti Gorilla Marketing cards were designed to be dropped in Coffee shops and other meeting places nearby design schools and design events…

Created this video introduction of the concept behind Groopti together with the help of my Groopti team and our good friends at Kino Corp…

We developed a good number of new furniture designs at Groopti crowd-sourced from independent designers in more than 12 countries across the…

DeliciouslyDone is the personal blog of the very trendy and lovely Holly Kim (aka LittleMissShanghai). Role: Website and Logo Design…

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This booklet was designed as a welcome to Groopti. Not quite a manifesto and not quite a branding book, it is in between conveying the…

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The Groopti website was a great team effort that brought together branding, UX, design, testing, and community feedback. The Website went…

Role: Brand Interpreter, Lead Project Manager The Groopti Brand came together as a big team effort from Eitan Chitayat (Groopti Partner and…

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