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Charles T. Betz

@charlestbetz.bsky.social
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IT industry analyst, architect, composer. I talk to a lot of people about how digital organizations operate at scale. Professional www.forrester.com/blogs/author/char…. Creative charlestbetz.com. Proud Minnesotan.

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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Dramatizing the NDE
Promise and Pitfalls
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Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This too…
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Oh I've been looking for this. 32 songs about what's happening in Minnesota. From @minnpost.bsky.social. Get beyond The Boss. www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
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‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the city's ICE resistance
MinnPost contributor Jim Walsh compiles a playlist by songwriters who are tapping into their talent, anger, artistry and empathy to support Minnesota.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I go to many conferences and wind up throwing out the lanyards. Never felt good about the waste. I was heading out with a whistle in my pocket, as one does, and I realized - I now know what to do with those! Save your lanyards and pass them along to folks who can use them.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment. www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...
A screenshot of a guide detailing items you should bring to a protest, including:

cell phone (possible a burner)
cash
protest stole
cell phone power bank
sharpie (to write important info on your body)
snacks
water (for hydration and first aid)
plastic bags for wet/sticky objects
extra t-shirt
backpack to carry everything
first aid kit
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/01/2026
Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people
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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is so beautiful. It’s so cold outside today and it’s such a huge crowd.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/01/2026
MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
My second choral premiere "River Song" happened Thursday night. Here is a studio demo with video imagery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9oH...
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River Song
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Accounts of resistance are invaluable
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This may be the most important thing I've done as an analyst. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...
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AI Wakes The Sleeping Giant: Continuous Improvement Will Finally Fulfill… | Charles Betz
AI wakes the sleeping giant.... We’ve spent decades trying to build systems for continuous learning and improvement. Most became stale rituals. The spark was…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 22/03/2025
Useful thread for all frequent travelers to the US or elsewhere
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
An LLM does not make coding *easy*. It accelerates you (dramatically), but the cognitive load (in my experience so far) is just as intense as it ever was.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
LLMs, graph databases, and IT management www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Charles Betz on LinkedIn: The Graphic Future Of IT Management
Been thinking about - and playing with - graphs and LLMs. The combination is powerful. I've been a little reticent about LLM-only plays & conversations, even…
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’ve seen a couple stories along these lines and they have the ring of truth to me. I am disinterested in supporting the Democrats until they fix this. newrepublic.com/article/1891...
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Elon Musk’s Stunning $250 Million Favor to Trump Should Wake Up Dems
Musk and others helped the GOP run rings around Democrats in the info wars. I asked three leading contenders for party chair how they’d fix this.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The much needed response to the unitary executive theory.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hoo boy. New article says lower courts are obliged not to follow SCOTUS precedents that are “demonstrably erroneous and conflict with positive law, especially the Constitution which is the nation's supreme, paramount, and fundamental law.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The subject of stare decisis has occupied considerable scholarly attention over the years, so much so that one could fill a small log cabin with its pages. Yet one massively understudied aspect of stare decisis is its "vertical" application in a judicial hierarchy. Nearly everyone assumes or believes that the Constitution requires inferior federal courts to obey Supreme Court precedents no matter what. This is what a constitutional rule of "vertical stare decisis" entails. The Supreme Court certainly thinks so. But is that right? 
This Article challenges the conventional view and upends it. Based on a careful review of the Constitution's text, structure, and history, it concludes that the Constitution does not prescribe a rule of vertical stare decisis for inferior federal courts and never has. Inferior federal courts must therefore avoid blind obedience to Supreme Court precedents; they are not the agents of the Supreme Court, as the President's subordinates are the agents of the President. Inferior federal courts have not merely the power, but the general duty, to disobey Supreme Court precedents that are demonstrably erroneous and conflict with positive law, especially the Constitution which is the nation's supreme, paramount, and fundamental law. That said, Congress retains considerable power to fashion some rules of vertical stare decisis for statutory cases.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is a seriously freaking deep cut in retrospect. I suspect I have stumped 99% of you. And yes, my first album I paid for with my own money.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This AM I got up and the first thing I did was doomscroll. Regardless of the merits of staying informed, this can't be good and I am going to stop. It starts with removing the smart phone from the sleeping area.
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 22/02/2025
Thank you, Jesse. I'm mad as hell, I'm not going to take it anymore. 💙 Following all.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It’s real weird reading over the Declaration of Independence right now in light of the actions of the current administration, because a good 50% or more of those “Facts submitted to a candid world” are… super accurate: 🧵
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Today's blog. www.forrester.com/blogs/a-simp...
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A Simple Definition Of “Platform”
“The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.* At Forrester, we’ve periodically debated the meaning of the word “p...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2025
NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...
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Letter From a Federal Worker
This is a heartbreaking letter that a federal worker has asked me to share with the public.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I just deleted 350 Google contacts as part of re-orienting my digital life. This was hard and emotional, recalling once-passionate parts of my life I don't expect to ever revisit. All too many who have passed on, as well. But I have new challenges, friends, and horizons.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For some reason the fable of "The Frogs Who Desired A King" is on my mind. aesopsfables.wordpress.com/the-frogs-wh...
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The Frogs Who Desired a King
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to the story, a group of frogs lived happily and peacefully in a pond. Over time, however, they became discontented with their way of life, and thoug…
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm starting to exit Facebook. One thought I'm having: going back to email, A LOT. Cleaning up all my old addresses. Trying to figure out a sustainable strategy for elevating high priority conversations. Etc. Anyone else have similar thoughts?
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My swag is rediculas 😎💧 @garliccorgi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
www.politico.com/news/magazin... I never would have guessed
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Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Happy 60th anniversary to A Love Supreme www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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'A Love Supreme' at 60: Musicians celebrate the timeless work of jazz genius
Musicians celebrate the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane's jazz masterpiece 'A Love Supreme'
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This thebulletin-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thebulle...
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Why DOGE’s meddling at Treasury could have catastrophic consequences for the US economy
It’s only a matter of time until DOGE meddling inadvertently triggers a catastrophic failure of Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I’m sorry, but Bluesky is still nowhere near what Twitter was for me. Trying to rebuild, not succeeding yet.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Truth
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I really needed to see something like this today
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I've heard a number of people say, "I live in a safe blue district/state--there's no point in calling my reps since they're already on the right side." Yes, there is: You can call and insist that they be among the loudest voices on the issues you care about, since they can afford to be.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
AI Keynesianism.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The economy runs on "unnecessary" spending. This is just supplementing military Keynesianism with AI Keynesianism.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It's definite, I am premiering another work with Crescendo Community Chorus (www.crescendochorus.org) on May 15, working title "River Song." This concert is in partnership with Friends of the Mississippi River, headed by my good friend Whitney Clark.
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Crescendo Community Chorus
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is the real game, folks. prospect.org/politics/202...
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Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet
Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New blog on the relationship between the product model and technical debt www.forrester.com/blogs/the-pr...
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The Product Model Solves For Tech Debt
Learn about the unique relationship between product management and technical debt that many tech and business leaders overlook.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 17/01/2025
Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
At the 20th Code Freeze, in the spectacular McNamara Center at the University of Minnesota.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
MSP deep cut. IYKYK.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
for Minneapolis Bluesky - Lori is a brilliant mosaic creator and public artist - please consider attending -
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Cleaning for Solstice party and listening to seasonal music. Appreciating "Good King Wenceslas" for its message: the powerful have duty to the poor. That one stays in rotation.
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Charles T. Betz @charlestbetz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hearing about more EA teams taking over CMDBs.
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