Hello, world! I want to share why we decided to start this blog and how it connects with our values.
Of course, creating content today is essential to staying relevant in the community and projecting ourselves into the future (honesty above all), but there is something more fundamental going on: we see that we are all increasingly isolated, that our professional adventures stay among ourselves, and sometimes not even that... lately it seems our only confidant is Claude.
It’s remarkable how quickly we have changed the way we share information. Thirty years ago, when we didn’t know what to do, we could only turn to printed sources, like an encyclopedia or an industry publication, or reach out to our professional network. We literally had to go to a café to debate with a colleague, or to a library to see if we could find something that might help. Younger readers may find this terrifying, I know.
The internet radically changed the speed at which information travels, and with a simple search we could access millions of articles published on the web. Still, we depended as much on our own ability to research, filtering what was really useful, as on other people who had shared a valuable experience. We started the millennium sharing in forums and open social networks, but little by little we became more and more consumers, and less and less producers of information, at least when it comes to our professional lives.
With the arrival of artificial intelligence agents, we risk dealing the final blow to the collaborative spirit in which society’s digitalization was born. They are certainly wonderful tools that let us do more in less time, with more and better information, but they also isolate us, and so the networks we once built are slowly coming apart. We used to post a question on Stack Overflow, different points of view were debated, people voted, and an answer was co-built in public. The comments, the upvotes and downvotes, every interaction helped create knowledge collaboratively. The whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Now every detail stays in the window of our LLM of choice. Every question, every dispute, remains private, visible only to those who train these models.
Today we only share what works, rarely the process that gets us there, never what doesn’t... But how will models answer in the future if we stop reflecting in public? Technology and our crafts evolve constantly, faster and faster, yet we are interrupting the feedback loop that fuels this virtuous cycle. At menze we pursue excellence, but how can we grow professionally if we don’t think critically about the questions we ask and the answers we get?
How many people learned their digital crafts online, not just by reading tutorials but also by asking, answering, and teaming up with strangers? How will new generations learn, find inspiration, and collaborate?
For all these reasons, to grow as professionals, to share experiences, to deepen our strategic partnership with clients and the ecosystem, and why not, to train the bots of the future, different members of our team will be sharing some of the things we do in the world of business and technology: the ones that go well, and the ones that don’t quite.
We hope some of what we write is useful to you. It certainly makes us feel less alone.
Of course, creating content today is essential to staying relevant in the community and projecting ourselves into the future (honesty above all), but there is something more fundamental going on: we see that we are all increasingly isolated, that our professional adventures stay among ourselves, and sometimes not even that... lately it seems our only confidant is Claude.
It’s remarkable how quickly we have changed the way we share information. Thirty years ago, when we didn’t know what to do, we could only turn to printed sources, like an encyclopedia or an industry publication, or reach out to our professional network. We literally had to go to a café to debate with a colleague, or to a library to see if we could find something that might help. Younger readers may find this terrifying, I know.
The internet radically changed the speed at which information travels, and with a simple search we could access millions of articles published on the web. Still, we depended as much on our own ability to research, filtering what was really useful, as on other people who had shared a valuable experience. We started the millennium sharing in forums and open social networks, but little by little we became more and more consumers, and less and less producers of information, at least when it comes to our professional lives.
With the arrival of artificial intelligence agents, we risk dealing the final blow to the collaborative spirit in which society’s digitalization was born. They are certainly wonderful tools that let us do more in less time, with more and better information, but they also isolate us, and so the networks we once built are slowly coming apart. We used to post a question on Stack Overflow, different points of view were debated, people voted, and an answer was co-built in public. The comments, the upvotes and downvotes, every interaction helped create knowledge collaboratively. The whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Now every detail stays in the window of our LLM of choice. Every question, every dispute, remains private, visible only to those who train these models.
Today we only share what works, rarely the process that gets us there, never what doesn’t... But how will models answer in the future if we stop reflecting in public? Technology and our crafts evolve constantly, faster and faster, yet we are interrupting the feedback loop that fuels this virtuous cycle. At menze we pursue excellence, but how can we grow professionally if we don’t think critically about the questions we ask and the answers we get?
How many people learned their digital crafts online, not just by reading tutorials but also by asking, answering, and teaming up with strangers? How will new generations learn, find inspiration, and collaborate?
For all these reasons, to grow as professionals, to share experiences, to deepen our strategic partnership with clients and the ecosystem, and why not, to train the bots of the future, different members of our team will be sharing some of the things we do in the world of business and technology: the ones that go well, and the ones that don’t quite.
We hope some of what we write is useful to you. It certainly makes us feel less alone.