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Rich
@richhildyard.bsky.social
Building useful stuff that (hopefully) make things a little better or stops them falling over. Curious about people, product, systems and what happens when they meet. Mostly here for smart ideas and the occasional dad joke.
If you were given the chance to spend an hour doing the perfect x with person y, could you absolutely decide on x and y and would you happily tell random me or alternatively your best friend?
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I generally embrace ignorance as a learning opportunity — but the Google Windsurf investment genuinely confuses me.

www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/g...

How does the value stack up? Where’s the ethics? Is this acceleration, desperation, or something else entirely?
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in $2.4 billion AI talent deal
Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.
www.cnbc.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
👋 Hello BlueSky.

Social Time! I spend my work time helping teams navigate complexity—whether that’s scaling digital platforms, making things work better, or just trying to get engineers and stakeholders to speak the same language. For here, expect a little bit of news, science and politics too.
July 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM