Daily Reading List – June 1, 2026 (#795)

I’m settling into Stockholm after having yesterday to walk around and enjoy time with an old friend. Today was full of customer meetings and hanging out with startup founders.

[blog] How To Handle Conflict: 7 Secrets From History’s Master Strategist. Good post, especially for those of us that can be clumsy with our approach to conflict with others.

[article] How to stop the AI code generation treadmill. Interesting. This writer suggests that instead of piling more guardrails around AI-generated code, generate less code. Push the AI to select pre-built, pre-tested components. That assumes you have them!

[article] Open Source Ecosystems. A quick look at the role interdependencies play on the impact of open source.

[blog] Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding. Here are examples of bad measurements of value for your AI tools.

[article] Claude Mythos exposed a hard truth: Your enterprise patching process is way too slow. Talked to a colleague about this on Friday too. Attackers are exploting zero-days so much faster now, but enterprise patching still takes weeks. Five recommendations here.

[blog] Gemini Managed Agents or ADK? Autopilot or Cockpit? It’s not the same, but resembles a PaaS vs. Kubernetes debate. The answer is usually both. When you want one-off, fully-managed agents use Gemini Managed Agents. When you want flexibility and control, build agents with ADK.

[article] “Tokenmaxxing is real, expensive & it’s spreading”: AI budgets are exploding. It looks like products are emerging to help you be more judicious with token use. And figure out the impact/outcome of those tokens.

[blog] What’s in Enterprise IT/VC #500. I read this every week, and congrats to Ed on reaching 500 editions. This one has some fantastic insights into the new stage of enterprise AI.

[article] What Makes a Good Productivity Metric? I like the questions this article asks, and the example our Google researchers provide.

[blog] From petabytes to predictions: Easy BigQuery insights in Google Sheets. I forgot about this feature, probably because I don’t live in spreadsheets. But Connected Sheets are a pretty awesome idea.

[article] The Keys to Succeeding Under a New Manager. Good advice, and reminder. I’ve switched managers a few times at Google, and I’ve gone into this latest one too casually.

[article] Vendor neutrality isn’t magic: A hard look at the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. This project may fly under the radar if you’re not a platform engineer, but OpenTelemetry is a great example of a widely adopted standard.

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