Matthew Skelton
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Matthew Skelton
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· Feb 1
Keynotes — Matthew Skelton
with Matthew Skelton, co-author of ‘Team Topologies’ and originator of Adapt Together™
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📢 I'm now available for keynote talks worldwide
* How to use ‘Economies of Empowerment’ to get the benefits of both speed and scale
* the AI-savvy operating model
* Platform Engineering done well: innovation, efficiency, market advantage
Request a keynote: https://matthewskelton.com/keynotes
* How to use ‘Economies of Empowerment’ to get the benefits of both speed and scale
* the AI-savvy operating model
* Platform Engineering done well: innovation, efficiency, market advantage
Request a keynote: https://matthewskelton.com/keynotes
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One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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I’m glad they told us how far away the dimension line is from the house
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’m glad they told us how far away the dimension line is from the house
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Inspired choice to satisfy mixed-use zoning requirements
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Inspired choice to satisfy mixed-use zoning requirements
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A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
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As nominally left parties enact transphobia please remember that the German "National Socialists" worked on eliminating trans people¹ before they eliminated the Socialists from their own party².
¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
² en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
² en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As nominally left parties enact transphobia please remember that the German "National Socialists" worked on eliminating trans people¹ before they eliminated the Socialists from their own party².
¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
² en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
² en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What's the accepted emoji to represent AI Slop?
💩?
🤮?
🍲?
Something else?
💩?
🤮?
🍲?
Something else?
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What's the accepted emoji to represent AI Slop?
💩?
🤮?
🍲?
Something else?
💩?
🤮?
🍲?
Something else?
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Factor Fexcectorn was my fav Star Wars figure.
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Factor Fexcectorn was my fav Star Wars figure.
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I'm sure the text makes everything clear...oh.
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm sure the text makes everything clear...oh.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's us.
It's Earth.
From Mars.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's us.
It's Earth.
From Mars.
November 24, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's us.
It's Earth.
From Mars.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's us.
It's Earth.
From Mars.
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That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Want to unlock faster, more effective team delivery? I’m excited to share our course Team Topologies Distilled, where we guide you through the key concepts and patterns from Team Topologies ✨ Enjoy 40% off now → https://academy.teamtopologies.com/courses/team-topologies-distilled
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I think where I’m starting to land, with my experienced pre and post coding agents:
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think where I’m starting to land, with my experienced pre and post coding agents:
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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I also am reasonably convinced that certain aspects of what we call "AI" - a horribly imprecise term that covers LLMs but also all machine learning algos - are going to be essential for energy system management if we want grids with renewables, to take just one example.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I also am reasonably convinced that certain aspects of what we call "AI" - a horribly imprecise term that covers LLMs but also all machine learning algos - are going to be essential for energy system management if we want grids with renewables, to take just one example.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today