Isaac Sacolick

Seize Real Advantages: 7 Urgent Reasons to Revisit Agile for the AI Era Organizations need to revisit their agile practices due to increased complexity and changing business expectations, exacerbated by AI advancements. Key issues include fragmented management, lack of…

In many organizations, what started as a simple scrum process became overly complex due to agile frameworks that sought to “scale” agile.
#agile #cio

"This is a must-read book for everyone leading digital transformation initiatives in the organization."

www.amazon.com/Digital-Trai...
#CIO #DigitalTransformation

WSJ says it all

Nvidia First $5T Company
Google Rev Soars as AI Boom Lifts Cloud Buz
Microsoft’s Cloud Services Power Earnings Beyond Wall St Expectations
Meta Reports Record Revenue in Q3

But

Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite
#cio

My #AI article of the week

www.infoworld.com/article/4061...

Join the StarCIO Digital Trailblazer Community The StarCIO Digital Trailblazer Community welcomes leaders at all levels involved in digital transformation. It fosters multidisciplinary skills, offering learning and support. Open to diverse…

Community members can now access my ebook on Agile Planning!

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#Agile #DigitalTransformation

Coffee with Digital Trailblazer Recordings Coffee With Digital Trailblazers is a weekly LinkedIn Live Event held every Friday at 11am ET, focusing on discussions relevant to digital transformation leaders. Participants explore various themes…

Don't miss this week's episode on The Real Cost of Tribal Knowledge: Why Losing Your People Can Bring Ops to a Standstill. October topics announced!

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#DigitalTransformation #AI #CIO

A great day. Eight years ago. Time flies

The healthcare problems in the U.S. are about to get worse. Between this surge and tariffs, the economy could tank.

“Costs for employer coverage are expected to surge about 9.5% in 2026.”

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump’s attendance at U.S. Open Trump will attend the U.S. Open final as a guest of a sponsor, marking his first appearance since 2015.

This pathetic and shameful to USTA and any #media that abides > USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump’s attendance at U.S. Open

Trump Said RFK Jr. Could ‘Go Wild.’ The Health Secretary Is Testing the Limits. Kennedy’s disruption of the CDC, vaccine recommendations and other policies drew a Senate rebuke. Trump is standing by him, for now.

See www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Seriously frightening > “Shortly before President Trump secured another White House term, he pledged to supporters at a rally to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, medicine and food if elected.”

How Trump’s Blunt-Force Diplomacy Is Pushing His Rivals Together

“Unintended consequences?” Bullies turn friends into rivals and rivals into threats > How Trump’s Blunt-Force Diplomacy Is Pushing His Rivals Together www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

The IT the economy added just 22,000 new jobs, a sign that the labor market is deteriorating markedly. The overall jobless rate in August edged up 4.3%. #cio

Sad. Disappointing. Pathetic. Show some morale courage.

Rethinking the IT organization for the agentic AI era Agentic AI marks a pivotal moment for how work will get done in tomorrow’s enterprise. These five questions will help CIOs better understand how they might restructure IT operations to facilitate busi...

"With the advent of agentic AI, CIOs must be poised to adjust strategic IT priorities, mitigate new security risks, and reskill staff for a new era," writes @ikestarcio.bsky.social

www.cio.com/article/4046...

White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind

And then there’s this stupidity

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.

They tested out six specific intervention strategies to stop the platform from turning into a polarized hellscape.

To their dismay, none of the interventions worked

futurism.com/social-netwo...
#ai #social

We will be discussing at this Friday’s Coffee With Digital Trailblazers

OpenAI’s GPT-5 has had a tumultuous public launch, frustrating users and prompting Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman to respond www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... #ai

LinkedIn down? Current status and problems | Real-time overview of problems with LinkedIn. Service down, can't log in or send messages? We'll tell you what is going on.

Ahh. So that’s what’s causing LinkedIn’s performance issues :-)

downdetector.com/status/linke...

The Smithsonian Changes Its Description of Trump’s Role on Jan. 6

So sad and disappointing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/a...

How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist The question today is not whether to support multicloud operations but how to excel at it. Here’s what experts are saying about the challenges and opportunities in multiple cloud operations.

InfoWorld columnist @ikestarcio.bsky.social asked experts how they and their teams are excelling in multicloud operations. The following checklist distills their best practices.

Greetings from #AWSSummitNYC

The Republican budget is a climate horror Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.

The Republican budget is a climate horror.

According to an analysis by energy experts at Princeton University, by 2035 the bill will increase electricity costs for consumers and businesses, decrease investment in clean energy

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-...

‘Sapiens’ Author Yuval Noah Harari on the Promise and Peril of AI The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming fast.

“The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not a tool, it is an agent, in the sense that it can make decisions independently of us. It can invent new ideas. It can learn and change by itself.”

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-y... #ai

Anthropic Lands Partial Victory in AI Case Set to Shape Future Rulings The decision is among the first to find that use of books for AI model training is legal under U.S. copyright law.

Sadly, here’s one reason why I am unlikely to write another book > Anthropic Lands Partial Victory in AI Case Set to Shape Future Rulings www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

#ai #legal #fail

I can’t believe I received my author’s copies three years ago today. What a journey since then! #CIO

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

The lunatics are running the asylum

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an Uncomfortable Summer <br> Companies say they are freezing hiring and investment to deal with shifting tariff policies, which is compounding an uneasy equilibrium in the labor market.

Businesses are warning that constantly shifting trade policies are interfering with their ability to plan for the future, leading to hiring and investment freezes www.wsj.com/economy/trum... #cio

Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law

Sorry Gov. Trust is long gone >

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, immediately rebuked the president’s action. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” Mr. Newsom said, adding that “this is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

While (have work) do {
Create prompt;
Identify AI tool;
Test and improve prompt;
if (frustrated) { change AI tool;
finish work;
} until (feeling obsolete);

#AI