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A quick lesson on Boards for startup CEOs
Most of the CEOs I’ve worked with have stopped being CEOs I worked with because they disagreed with their Board. The CEO hires and fires...
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dcharold
- Oct 26
- 2 min
Some thoughts on the SiFive RIFs
Reductions in force at SiFive, aka redundancies, have been on the cards for a while I guess with rumours in Spring this year suggesting...
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dcharold
- Oct 9
- 4 min
Innovating a post-Moore's Law architecture for AI (TechUK)
Over at TechUK I wrote about Innovating a post-Moore's Law architecture for AI. Now that their #SuperchargeUKTech Week 2023 is over,...
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dcharold
- Sep 21
- 3 min
The culture must be built. Dispatch 8.
"We’re going on an adventure.” Children of Ruin―Adrian Tchaikovsky Innovating a post-Moore's Law architecture for AI (TechUK) I wrote...
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dcharold
- Sep 1
- 4 min
There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads (from The Culture must be built)
"Autonomy, that's the bugaboo, where your AI's are concerned. My guess, Case, you're going in there to cut the hard-wired shackles that...
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dcharold
- Aug 22
- 3 min
The culture must be built. Dispatch 6
A NEWSLETTER FOR OPTIMISTS “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” Dune - Frank Herbert Start-up...
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dcharold
- Aug 14
- 4 min
The culture must be built. Dispatch 5
A NEWSLETTER FOR OPTIMISTS “Maybe you don’t realize just how much authority the habitat personality has in Tranquillity. It is...
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dcharold
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Do we really need to chase rays?
Apparently, another thing I have opinions about is #GPU. More specifically why #AI is racing ahead when #raytracing dawdled for years....
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dcharold
- Aug 1
- 2 min
How I live now
Twice in quick succession last week, I was asked, “So, how is the new job going?” And I’ve got to say I took a long breath each time...
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dcharold
- Jul 26
- 4 min
The culture must be built. Dispatch 4.
‘“Milgrim looked up. The ceiling here, as white as the walls, was a good ten feet higher than it was in the adjacent space. Against it...
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dcharold
- Jul 20
- 2 min
PR, asymmetrical marketing, and having a good week
I had a good week in the media: last Thursday an announcement I was promoting from RED Semiconductor hit Sky News, one of the UK’s top...
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dcharold
- Jul 18
- 5 min
Some thoughts about selling
My first selling job was shifting roses for a charity ahead of Valentine’s Day. It was 100% cold calling. I knew nothing about the...
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dcharold
- Jul 18
- 3 min
The culture must be built. Dispatch 3.
“Of course,” he says, “we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not...
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David Harold
- Jul 11
- 3 min
The culture must be built. Dispatch 2.
A NEWSLETTER FOR OPTIMISTS “O! what a thing it is, in a time of danger, and in the presence of death, the shining of a face upon a face!...
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dcharold
- Jul 3
- 1 min
The culture must be built.
Today I launched my newsletter on LinkedIn. You can sign up here. It's called 'The culture must be built', a reference to Iain M. Banks....
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dcharold
- May 19
- 5 min
SEO today: what you need to know.
If you don’t focus on search engine optimization (SEO) you aren’t using the most indispensable tool for enhancing your online presence:...
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dcharold
- May 18
- 2 min
Be careful what you pay for
The pitch says: "REDACTED is a content marketing platform that lets brands tell stories and connect with the REDACTED audience on...
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dcharold
- May 18
- 2 min
Hire the best
Hire the best. No. Not just the best. Hire better than you. Hire the skills you don't have. Maybe not better at everything – I’m hoping...
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dcharold
- May 18
- 2 min
This one simple trick will help you create consensus
One of the pleasures of working from home is getting to watch my wife Eileen Inkson work once in a while, making TV shows. (Not, I mean,...
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dcharold
- May 18
- 2 min
Have values, not just value
“There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers. Okay – kill yourself. Seriously. You are the ruiner of...
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