Suresh Vina published a great netlab tutorial, going from the very basics to a full-blown MPLS network with custom multi-vendor device configuration. Thank you!

Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, so it's going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archive will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day. [...]

"We have a longstanding relationship with Reddit and continue to have ongoing discussions about this matter," Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, says in a statement to The Verge.

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Sriram Narayan concludes his article in impact intelligence by addressing five common objections to this activity, including slowing down, lack of agility and collaboration, and the unpredictability of innovation.

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Sriram Narayan continues his article on impact intelligence by outlining five actions that can be done to improve impact intelligence: introduce robust demand management, pay down measurement debt introduce impact validation, offer your CFO/COO an alternative to ROI, equip your teams.

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The productivity of knowledge workers is hard to quantify and often decoupled from direct business outcomes. The lack of understanding leads to many initiatives, bloated tech spend, and ill-chosen efforts to improve this productivity. Sriram Narayan begins an article that looks at how to avoid this by developing an intelligence of the business impact of their work across a network connecting output to proximate and downstream impact.

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