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Ep. 10: Are you a manager or a leader? / To the lands of milk and honey
What are the perils of being a manager and not a leader or vice versa? Are you a manager or a leader? Here's my take along with a tiny short story.
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
15:59
On the perils of management vs leadership – which are you?
Are you a manager or a leader? Can you take the traits of working in the known and the unknown too far?
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
Ep. 8: Entrepreneurial advice or lack thereof
Exploring what it means to take advice, ask for advice and what I learned about entrepreneurship by climbing mountains
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
21:18
Three reasons to never take my advice. Ever.
"My advice to you is..." If you hear me start a sentence with that phrase, I give you permission to hit me over the head.
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
Only stupid people start companies...
... or what I learned about entrepreneurship by climbing mountains, and why you should never climb a mountain or start a company alone.
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
Ep. 6: Finland's "The Shortcut" and my enlightened migration
Listen now | An interview with the CEO of The Shortcut organization in Finland and recounting my own path to enlightened migration
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
25:18
Ep. 5: Fiction in the age of AI / Time travel to 1989
When anyone can use ChatGPT to write a novel, will anyone be creating and reading new original novels written by humans? Why should we bother to…
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Fiction in the age of AI
When I started working on my fiction after decades of neglect, I wondered, "Why bother? AIs will get so good people wouldn't want to read my stories…
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
Ep. 3: After thirty years on the web, have I actually learned anything?
History teaches us that everything repeats, including how we create, enable and drive technology. A look back on thirty years of dups.ca and what that…
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 2: How deeply are engineers adopting AI in larger software teams?
Are the rates of developers adopting Agentic AI in coding tasks as high as people say or are leaders believing the hype when reality says otherwise?
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
15:24
The Seductive Embrace of Efficiency
As we go to the polls around the world, we should consider politicians' desires to rule like the CEO of a company so that they can grant us the…
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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