Fintan Ryan

Fintan Ryan

@fintanr.bsky.social

Market Insights at GitHub l recovering analyst (ex RedMonk, Gartner) | 331 ppm | Irish in Edinburgh | Rugby (Munster, Edinburgh by season ticket)

661 Followers 1,050 Following 295 Posts Joined May 2023
5 months ago
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Leveraging Buzzword Synergy to Maximize Stakeholder Confusion: A Strategic Imperative for the Modern Enterprise In today’s hyperconnected business ecosystem, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: stakeholders are becoming dangerously informed. This clarity threatens the traditional consulting model and...

Introducing the MIST (Mystify, Intimidate, Sustain, Transform) framework.

Transformational thought leadership via Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 in "Leveraging Buzzword Synergy to Maximize Stakeholder Confusion: A Strategic Imperative for the Modern Enterprise"

msuaas.com/2025/09/30/m...

#satire

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6 months ago
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Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Developer Relations Foundation Vortex Project Joins LF AI & Data Foundation

Honestly don't understand the need for this.

www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

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6 months ago
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Why I Replaced My Executive Team with a Magic 8-Ball and Saw 300% Growth Enterprises today face unprecedented complexity. Data deluge, shifting geopolitical conditions, and accelerating technological disruption have rendered traditional executive decision-making both slow ...

Why I Replaced My Executive Team with a Magic 8-Ball and Saw 300% Growth

Some ground breaking LLM generated thought leadership

msuaas.com/2025/08/24/m...

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7 months ago

Not sure building an updated deck on the AI devtools landscape to the strains of Chaos AD from Sepultura will set the correct tone, but lets see how this morning goes..

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7 months ago

"Perfect! That's a great improvement." - no, no its not, its what I asked you to do the in the first place dear llm.

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7 months ago
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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44 | Wiz Blog New discovery underscores security implications of AI-powered development and the rise of Vibe Coding Platforms.

I've said more than a few times that if you like Vibe Coding your going to love Vibe Security... indeed... and thats not to mention the lessons in basic software engineering some folks learned over the last few weeks.

www.wiz.io/blog/critica...

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7 months ago

Nice one, congrats Oxide team.

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7 months ago

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

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7 months ago
Occhipiniti SP68 Bianco 2023

Right up your street @monkchips.com , think @bettyjunod.bsky.social might enjoy this too.

Occhipiniti SP68 Bianco 2023

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7 months ago

Realise it’s trendy to dunk on bullet points right now, but you do realise that they existed before AI. And they are an incredibly effective way of writing for certain audiences.

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7 months ago
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The Silent Language of Office Plants: How Foliage Drives Innovation Beyond Aesthetics – The Strategic Imperative of Biophilia

The Silent Language of Office Plants: How Foliage Drives Innovation

This weeks ground breaking thought leadership msuaas post, courtesy of Google Gemini 2.5.

msuaas.com/2025/07/25/s...

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7 months ago
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The Cure - A Forest YouTube video by TheCureVEVO

Finishing up some work and stuck on A Forest by The Cure. Still wonderful that it sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it.

youtu.be/xik-y0xlpZ0?...

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7 months ago
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Corporate Astrology: Aligning Your Business Strategy with Mercury Retrograde In an era of unprecedented volatility, businesses are increasingly seeking unconventional frameworks to navigate uncertainty. This paper introduces Corporate Astrology—a paradigm-shifting approach to ...

Introducing "Corporate Astrology: Aligning Your Business Strategy with Mercury Retrograde", new LLM generated thought leadership. (yes it is satire).

msuaas.com/2025/07/19/c...

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7 months ago

Choice was totally coincidental. Politicians honour.

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7 months ago
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Corporate Astrology: Aligning Your Business Strategy with Mercury Retrograde In an era of unprecedented volatility, businesses are increasingly seeking unconventional frameworks to navigate uncertainty. This paper introduces Corporate Astrology—a paradigm-shifting approach to ...

Introducing "Corporate Astrology: Aligning Your Business Strategy with Mercury Retrograde", new LLM generated thought leadership. (yes it is satire).

msuaas.com/2025/07/19/c...

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8 months ago

This weeks MSUAAS post is courtesy of Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 on "Retroactive Synergy: Achieving Tomorrow’s Results Yesterday" msuaas.com/2025/07/11/r...

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8 months ago
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Quantum Management: Leading Teams Through Parallel Corporate Realities Quantum mechanics has long fascinated scientists with its paradoxes and principles, yet its implications for corporate leadership remain largely unexplored. This whitepaper introduces the concept of Q...

This weeks guest post is from OpenAI GPT 4.0 on "Quantum Management: Leading Teams Through Parallel Corporate Realities"

msuaas.com/2025/07/06/q...

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8 months ago
Making Shit Up As A Service Making Shit Up As A Service: An irreverent look at the capabilities of LLMs.

Silly fun weekend project I finally got around to, introducing Making Shit Up As A Service (msuaas.com), an irreverent look at LLM generated thought leadership.

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8 months ago
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Don’t think I will make @monktoberfest.com this year. You should if you can.

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8 months ago

It’s amusing watching people’s egos go stratospheric when they mistake luck and being the massive beneficiaries of the work and foresight of others for some sort of strategic brilliance on their part.

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8 months ago
BBQ broccoli, bbq limes & satay sauce

BBQ broccoli, bbq limes & satay sauce

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9 months ago
Edinburgh North Shore at night Edinburgh North Shore at night

A welcome view of Edinburghs shoreline after a long layover with an extra delay in Schipol.

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9 months ago

totally

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9 months ago

OpenAI is the first consumer company in a longtime to have the scale to pull this off. Thinking all the way back to 2012 and a twitter interaction with @monkchips.com

redmonk.com/jgovernor/20...

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9 months ago

its a 50/50. Some great tracks some a bit meh. But it got me through two hours of stuff this evening :).

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9 months ago
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Shell~Wave Surgeon · Album · 2025 · 9 songs

Heads down finishing some work to some new tunes /cc @monkchips.com open.spotify.com/album/2jaVvl...

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10 months ago
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The Scottish Midge Forecast The Scottish Midge Forecast uses data from biting midge traps and mini-weather stations across Scotland to give you a view of midge levels in Scotland.

The most useful of all Scottish Forecasts, as discussed by parents during a (wonderfully sunny) kids cricket session yesterday - www.smidgeup.com/midge-foreca...

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10 months ago

Thank you!

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10 months ago

Does anyone have a copy of the very first State of DevOps report by Puppet from 2012, can't find a version of it /cc some possible suspects in @jedi.be @monkchips.com @littleidea.bsky.social

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10 months ago

Its sunny in Scotland today, what can I say!

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