“It’s not for us to have shame – it’s for them.“

What a powerful message, and what an amazing woman.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/23/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-france-court

I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.

The only two viewpoints on generative AI that get any play among tech punditry are:

1. AI is a lever that helps people do better
2. AI is effective automation that will replace people, or be a threat to them.

The third viewpoint, that AI tools are kind of shit and, if used in their current form at scale by corporations and governments, will “enshittify” large portions of our society, doesn’t seem to register with them at all.

The first casualty of war is the truth. In Ukraine, both sides have wildly different reports on casualty numbers, so who is right?

Professional military analyst @anderspuck of the Royal Danish Defence College takes an interesting look at the credibility of the sources we have:
https://youtu.be/s8mTWexL8bs

#ukraine