Reposted by Matthew SkeltonIdentitype | Leadership & Culture @identitype.bsky.social · 10hThat’s a fair distinction. The issue may be less “shared language creating false alignment” and more that familiar words can mask the absence of genuinely shared meaning. Until leaders surface what those words mean in practice, alignment can remain more assumed than real. 021
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonDr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 12hMy daughter, 24, put ‘educated before AI’ on her CV. The kids already know this. 417728
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 15hiBwave’s move to Azure wasn’t just a hosting change. It pushed a rethink of its SaaS product and the teams around it. See how Conflux helped shape the migration → confluxhq.com/all-success-stories/c… 000
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 01/10/2026Agreed, although I would argue that different meanings indicates a lack of shared language... 110
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 01/10/2026It's great to be here at Product Heroes conference in Milano. Superb conversations with experienced, kind people. What a super community. www.productheroes.it/product-hero... 010
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 01/10/2026When we published Team Topologies in 2019, AI agents weren’t on our radar. Rob Price asked: do the ideas still hold up? (Spoiler: "yes!") Listen here → matthewskelton.com/all-videos-and-p… 010
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonSemafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Visitors 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... 62731171104
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 153163885522
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 30/09/2026Looking forward to reading the new OOPSI book by Jenny Martin 📓 Genuinely transformational ideas and practices here... 031
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 30/09/2026Leadership 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… 121
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 @nbedera.bsky.social · 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. 6929115
Reposted by Matthew SkeltonNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 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. 31370258
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. 892120874
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. 2330367
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. 1511951551
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. 66943158
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… 110
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… 120
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." 401522709
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 4059782393
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). 187165355083
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? 720832