Matthew Skelton

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

Blog: https://blog.matthewskelton.net
GitHub: https://github.com/matthewskelton
Website: https://matthewskelton.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewskelton

Last Notes

2026-02-14 12:52:01 UTC

Beautiful day on the Yorkshire hills 😎❄️
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2026-01-21 14:20:46 UTC

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have you used AI tools selectively in an enterprise setting?
There is some genuine value, albeit limited.

2026-01-21 13:52:20 UTC

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I am no AI fanboi but the policy seems ... sensible.
How is this capitulation?

2025-07-27 18:13:03 UTC

Coloured glass on a hotel in Waterloo, London, UK. 🪟🎨
#SilentSunday
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2025-07-24 21:38:01 UTC

Today I learned that Gladiators were vegetarian 🫜 - beans and barley. 🗡️
Via the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds.
Rather deflates the idea that meat is needed for muscle strength, etc.
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2025-07-14 21:39:49 UTC

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£18 for a copy!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Application-Development-Without-Programmers-Martin/dp/0130389439

2025-03-02 14:36:43 UTC

Crocus and narcissus making a good showing here 🌷🪻
#SilentSunday #Bloomscrolling
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2025-02-22 13:52:58 UTC

I was invited to keynote at an excellent conference in the US ... but I have turned it down:
"Thank you for contacting me. Prior to the recent political changes in the US, I would have said "yes, absolutely" but I am no longer traveling to the US, particularly to Republican states like XXXXX. "
Sorry, US folks, but without a functioning FAA ✈️ and a rampaging nazi in charge, I'll not traveling to the US any time soon 😢
( I'm available for keynotes outside the US: https://matthewskelton.com/keynotes )
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2025-01-31 19:40:38 UTC

"This suggests AI systems develop specialized rather than general problem-solving approaches."
This is utterly unsurprising to anyone who really considers what is actually happening with AI systems.
https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/berkeley-researchers-replicate-deepseek
#AI

2024-09-21 10:05:02 UTC

"THE REAL BEAUTY OF OUR INTEGRATED SYSTEM IS THAT IT ALSO FREES COMPANIES FROM THE TYRANNY OF HUMAN READERS!"
Cartoon by Tom Gauld gently suggesting that production of mass volumes of content by GenAI is perhaps not a useful goal...
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2024-08-31 17:51:39 UTC

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and also: huge lol at the idea that it's coding where the bottleneck and cost exists, rather then (say) actually understanding the domain or user needs, and ongoing operational evolution of the code.
🤡

2024-08-26 16:39:38 UTC

This trio of screen prints of Yorkshire scenes by Or8design is looking nice on my office wall.
But why are the prints arranged like this in the wall? 🤔 Why not aligned? 🗺️
https://www.or8design.com/
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