James Arthur Cattell I refer to this a lot from Emily Webber emilywebber.co.uk/quick-icebreak…. Golden rule: make the ice breaker relevant to the meeting. Also, we put a lot of pressure on the ice breaker to be perfect. I think of it as the “commute into meeting”.

What a relief! Overcoming gov inaction globally (esp. here in Spain which has the world’s highest rate of growing recent transmissions) and a dithering WHO c’ttee Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has shown true leadership and declared #monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern.

Great piece by Frank Kilcommins on Keeping up with API Industry Standards for Financial Services: devprojournal.com/software-devel…

By using his power to #CancelStudentDebt, President Biden can lift a huge weight off tens of millions of Americans’ shoulders, unleash a new wave of entrepreneurship, and start closing the racial wealth gap for borrowers. It’s time to make it happen.

I paid off my own loans two years ago, and I don’t even care that that I worked my ass off to do that. Cancel all student loans for everybody, and regulate college tuition.

Congratulations St Perspicacious (aka George Takei)

Awesome thread from the API Evangelist Currently working with a client on API governance processes and so many of these ring true. We are supporting light touch processes so teams are not burdened by bureaucracy, stds automation & separation between legacy & new API processes

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Great piece: How to Achieve API Governance : thenewstack.io/how-to-achieve… via The New Stack

In the 2020 to 2021 period corporate profits made up 53% of the inflation. This figure should be the top of any conversation about inflation.

Looking forward to sharing our update again this year with the apidays Global community. Share any questions you would like my keynote to answer!

Boris Johnson as skips. A thread.

Awesome thread on simple approaches to changing your mindset when applying a community approach to developer experience/marketing

THREAD. A woman just died and babies and adults were taken to the hospital in Akron, Ohio after a carbon monoxide leak at an apartment building where the corporate landlord hadn't installed CO detectors as required by law. How do you think the local news and police treated it?

At this point, maybe we should ask women for help. #COP27

📢We are excited to host Mark Boyd (he/him), Director of Platformable, Co-Author of the API Landscape, at #apidays Paris 2022! Don't miss out on Mark's talk: "The state of the API Tooling Industry: a research study about 1200+ API tools" Register at 👉 bit.ly/3gCyMAR

Looking forward to this!