Reposted by Matthew SkeltonSemafor @semafor.com · 57mVisitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 46245100
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19hTime for this classic again. 128136214601
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 5hLooking forward to reading the new OOPSI book by Jenny Martin 📓 Genuinely transformational ideas and practices here... 031
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 13hLeadership teams can use the same AI language while solving different problems. The Roundtable Accelerator brings those conversations together. Explore it here → confluxhq.com/shop/p/roundtable-acc… 011
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 29/09/2026A simple Product Operating Model check: ask a team, “What do you own from start to finish?” If the answer is mostly handoffs, there’s still work to do. Explore the accelerator → teamtopologies.com/pom 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonNicole Bedera @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups. 6910114
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonNicole Bedera @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex. 21346253
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892115864
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonSoftware Architecture Gathering @sagconference.bsky.social · 28/09/2026𝗪𝗵𝗼’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹? 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 🎙️Who’s accountable when #AIAgents take action? Louise Humpington explores human oversight, delegated authority & #AI governance in our latest #SAG2026 interview. 👉️ t1p.de/rrwlm #SAGconf #LLM #ResponsibleAI 132
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 28/09/2026Useful knowledge shouldn’t stay in one team. AI makes shared context even more important. Explore my Adapt Together keynote → matthewskelton.com/keynote-talks/ad… 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/09/2026Well, just had a leading LLM get an internal error processing a Material Safety Data Sheet I sent it, so it HALLUCINATED THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD and created a fake version of the product... so it could give answers about the product. Oh lord. 2330368
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonMaciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets. 1501943546
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites. 66938157
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 25/09/2026"we do book clubs because we want to read and enjoy books, not to just discuss over summaries because it is "more productive"." #AI diegoe.be/2026/09/25/l...diegoe.beLLM Policies: Progress At All CostsGNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by... 000
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 25/09/2026Moving to the cloud did more than just change the technology at iBwave. It also required a rethink of the product and how teams were organized around it. You can see how we helped shape that transition → confluxhq.com/all-success-stories/c… 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonRob Bowley @robbowley.net · 25/09/2026A good reminder to (re)read No Silver Bullet. Tools shrink accidental complexity; essential complexity remains. 194
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 24/09/2026A Product Operating Model only becomes real when teams know what they own and feel confident working differently. Explore the Team Topologies Product Operating Model Accelerator → teamtopologies.com/pom 011
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 23/09/2026What happens to Team Topologies when AI agents join the way teams work? Responsibility matters even more. You can find the discussion here → matthewskelton.com/all-videos-and-p… 010
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026submission guidelines: you can use US or UK spellings, so long as you are consistent me: listen it's not my fault you don't recognize the unique flavour that is Canadian English 717914
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 22/09/2026AI needs context too. Useful knowledge can’t stay trapped in one team. Explore the Adapt Together keynote → matthewskelton.com/keynote-talks/ad… 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 15323203
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 21/09/2026AI adoption isn’t one decision. Leaders need to align on how work changes, who owns what, and what readiness means. Explore the Roundtable Accelerator → confluxhq.com/shop/p/roundtable-acc… 110
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401522708
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 18/09/2026One team proving a new way of working can be more convincing than another presentation. See how Team Topologies helped at scale → teamtopologies.com/news-blogs-newsl… 000
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 17/09/2026If a client asked, “Are you comfortable working with Team Topologies?”, how consistent would your team’s answers be? The Fluency Program helps build that shared understanding. Explore it here → teamtopologies.com/fluency 110
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonMemento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/03/2024dude is one muscle away from having his own podcast where he sells protein powder and talks conspiracy theories with losers like joe rogan 836110
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 16/09/2026LHV Bank didn’t solve growth by adding more teams. It rethought where responsibility should sit. Read the full story → confluxhq.com/all-success-stories/n… 000
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 15/09/2026Before giving AI more freedom, I’d give it a fence... Bounded agency means clear limits and responsibility. Read my conversation with Stackmint → matthewskelton.com/all-articles/sta… 011
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 14/09/2026AI can add huge capacity. But if teams are still waiting on decisions or unclear on ownership, it may only speed up the confusion... Explore the idea here → confluxhq.com/insight/ai-native-ope… 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059752383
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 13/09/2026Today's #bicontrast 🎨🔳 photo: late summer flowers against a big sky. #photography 030
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 12/09/2026Today's #bicontrast 🎨🔳 photo - a wall in Bratislava #photography 060
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonMike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"I dumped the rubric in, told it it was a teacher, and it was wildly inconsistent" Yeah, you want to see my shocked face, this is my shocked face 0151
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan. 2674575
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 11/09/2026Platform Engineering is about making something teams can trust. Clear ownership and good interfaces make all the difference. Find the full talk here → matthewskelton.com/keynote-talks/ke… 020
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 10/09/2026The best part of the Practical Data Community meetup was seeing people focus on meaningful AI output. Shared context makes the difference: matthewskelton.com/all-videos-and-p… 120
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165305075
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 09/09/2026The Generative AI Organisational Reset www.alpha-matica.com/post/the-gen... 'What we call “The Generative AI Organisational Reset” treats AI not as a productivity add-on, but as a structural catalyst. It collapses traditional hierarchical pyramids into lean, horizontal human-AI networks.'alpha-matica.comThe Generative AI Organisational ResetGenAI breaks “more revenue → more people → more layers.” It flattens orgs into human–AI networks. Governance must be artefact-driven (logs, code, pipelines as truth). Small teams own full cycles;… 010
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2026Have we seriously reached the point where “there’s a greater than 10% chance this kills everybody” isn’t a stop sign, it’s merely a business risk? www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...forbes.comAnthropic Alignment Lead Issues Warning About AI Killing Humans As Researcher ResignsThe warnings come amid a push by some AI executives for a coordinated slowdown in AI development. 513956
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 09/09/2026Aligned domains matter even more with AI. When teams share a clear domain and understand what they own, AI can support the work instead of adding noise. It’s the simplest way to make AI useful across an organization. Find the full read here → teamtopologies.com/ai-success 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement. 3710279
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 08/09/2026Looking forward to reading my copy of Collective Confidence by Andre Martin. "The winning formula of the world's best teams" 📘 000
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 08/09/2026AI thrives on organizational foundations. When teams have clear responsibilities and simple ways to work together, AI strengthens that. When they don’t, it mostly magnifies the friction: teamtopologies.com/news-blogs-newsl… 000
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonTube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Another photo of the narrow tiled pathway at Goodge Street station, easily one of my favourite locations on the Underground. Despite its striking appearance, it often goes unnoticed as passengers hurry towards the lifts. Is this the narrowest location on the underground network? 720932
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 07/09/2026Huh. Accidentally outer myself as a musician today (amateur): outside a restaurant then inside to order food. Waiter takes the order then asks: "Hope you don't mind me asking but are you a musician?" Me: "huh,.. how come?" Waiter: "I saw you moving about to the music you're listening to" 🤷💪📯 121
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 07/09/2026Fast flow often starts with finally seeing how work really moves. That’s what stood out at EBSCO: data made the real patterns visible, and teams could act with confidence. Full story → confluxhq.com/ebsco 020
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A weird side effect of AI that can make legal workflow less efficient than in pre-AI days www.ft.com/content/9877... 64517
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 05/09/2026While James Orr is in the news – let’s look at what he’s been up to with Michael Gove... goodlaw.social/we4ggoodlaw.socialPutin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oilGood Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK 114992
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live hereamericamagazine.orgVatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new documentThe more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.” 981292360
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 04/09/2026AI can accomplish a great deal. The more challenging question is if your organization is structured to use it effectively. Team Topologies offers a framework for considering the clear boundaries and necessary context that AI also requires. Explore AI success → teamtopologies.com/ai-success 000