What's your vision?
So with Alchemist specifically, it's so easy to be passionate
working for an organization like this because we have such an important mission.
So my vision is making the sharing of this information
as seamless and frictionless as possible,
because if you think about contractors that come on site to work,
suppliers that are trying to be responsible,
they don't want to have to be audited 27 different times to work with 27 different companies, right?
The more we can standardize the information that they submit,
their accreditation so that they just do that once,
the more they can focus with just getting on with the day job and doing a better job at the day job.
So my vision is this becomes so frictionless and straightforward
that both the contractors and the suppliers that are being assessed
and the organizations that want to buy their services and products
see this as a seamless network where they can source and select contractors and suppliers
based on how those contractors and suppliers match their values.
So I'm looking for a contractor that's safe, I'm looking for a supplier that's responsible,
and that's easy to find.
My vision for how we as software and data professionals build and deliver software
is that we understand the core driving factors and constraints of the companies within which we work.
So if you're a lean startup, you want to be working in one way.
You want to have small software teams that are wildly innovating, trying to find new markets.
If you're a mature business with an existing product stack
and a lot of existing information that you hold about your customers,
you want to be focused on predictably delivering to their workflows
and modernizing your technology as you go.
So making sure that what you deliver to customers stays modern
and continues to solve their business problems in more innovative ways.
Yes, yes. And that makes a lot of sense.
And I can understand that vision for Alchemist and your vision within that vision.
But tell me what keeps you going in this field?
I'm very interested in what keeps you going in this field and the passion you have behind it.
Alchemist is a company you chose to work with, but you have a, there's something bigger in you that I see.
Like, I just feel that there's so much more.
And you would not have written this book if you didn't have this bigger vision.
Where is it? What is it? What is it about? Tell me.
Well, I'd say, you know, somebody once said to me, a colleague that I really adore,
he said, if we're going to make mistakes, let's make new mistakes.
Because making old mistakes is frustrating.
And so the passion to write the book was to hopefully help other software professionals
make new mistakes and not have to go through the pain of making the mistakes that I've made,
you know, throughout my career, building all these software platforms.
But the passion for that comes from a deep desire to just deliver on the promise of technology.
And it's so exciting because it is so dynamic.
I mean, we are finding new ways to solve problems every single day.
And what drives me as a person is this desire to make the world,
the working world and our own personal world a better place.
And if people are safer, if organizations can be more sustainable
through a better application of technology, then that for me is really exciting.
You know, it's what you get up for every day.
It's it's what I want my kids to work in a world that's safer and more sustainable than I do.
And if we can apply technology to accelerate that path, that for me is well worth it.
And really exciting.
There it goes, Katie.
I love it. I love it because I'm like there, you know,
and I know that when people have take on positions in the corporate world or wherever,
entrepreneurship, there's a passion behind it.
And you you don't show any thought of like, OK, I'm just going to go create my own software
and I'm going to do this. You still have passion to help within an organization to make them better.
But I don't think you could have done it without still having that passion inside of you with that big,
big, big vision that you have not only for yourself, but you speak of your children.
And to be honest, I think technology is growing for me.
Scary like it's like this this whole new world where back in what was it?
And I hate to say, you know, Prince 1999, you know, and then 2000,
2K was going to be this world of change and 2K really wasn't.
It's it's now, you know, it's way past the 2K.
What were 24 years thereafter where we thought the lights was going to change and everything was going to happen then.
And I think that as it continues to grow and the more that you're sharing with me, it's like what next?
You know what I mean? What next? And like you said, you're solving new problems,
but that's only because technology is becoming is growing more and more and more.
So as you come to these new problems, how easy or does it make it to to actually utilize this technology?
Well, I think A.I. is just transforming what we do and how we do it every day.
So it's totally different from, you know, how it was even two years ago, you know, alone five years ago.
And it's just I don't think it's it's A.I. itself, but it's also how accessible it's become.
Yes. So you think about everyday engineers can now go into chat, GPT or other A.I.
applications and ask the application to write software code for them.
Yes. That just infinitely speeds up so they can spend their time on how to take an existing,
you know, set of code and make it better.
Product people, you know, we can we can we can get a baseline using A.I.
We can improve our predictive analytics using A.I.
So I think for us, it's just the opportunities have opened up.
And now it's about focusing on where this new technology can have its biggest impact,
you know, for our specific workflows.
How can it change what we do, how to challenge ourselves, how we think about our day to day jobs.
And and I see it, you know, some people, of course, will naturally see it as a threat to what they do.
But I see it as a tool that makes me more efficient.
You know, I always when you have to write something, think about writing like something, a marketing piece,
sometimes writing the first line is the hardest.
And so I feel like when I interact in my daily job with A.I., if I can just it gives me a baseline to start from.
You know, and it's still my thoughts and my, you know, my interaction with that is still me coming through in that.
But it just accelerates how quickly and how productive I can be in doing that.
So I think that holds an incredible amount of promise for all of us.
It's really exciting. Thank you for being here today.
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