Breaking Prod Leaderboard - Georgia's programme's wasted efforts #podcast #programmanagement

After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here!

CES 2025 has come and been

Michael thinks about persuading his cats to come to work
I want to charge my phone in 5 econds
Are we dry January-ing? No.

Resolutions:

Mark will play more darts
Michael will listen to political podcasts and 2 new albums a week
Georgia will go to places where people will help us meet goals
What's it like being a Consultant Strategist?
Companies are going full on RTO - why? Are governments pressuring big business back into the office?

Georgia wastes 50k on unnecessary cloud spend, currently ranked about 2nd on our "Breaking Prod" leaderboard.

Is the future of relationships just dating a robot?

Big Topic
Georgia has been involved in the disability and age care space. Some of the problems we've encountered, and how we can tackle them.
How does Georgia fit it all in?

In the News
Tiktok ban looking likely
LG’s creepy air purifiers
Apple Intelligence notification summaries not quite good enough
Facebook ditching fact checkers
Facebook has AI profiles
JP morgan 5 days RTO
Ghostty terminal emulator release, from Mitchell Hashimoto
Recommendations
Books
Mark read (listened to) Nuclear War: A Scenario
Mark has a potential contender for equally grim (because it’s true), Alexei Navalny’s Patriot
TV:
Black Doves Spy Drama with Keira Knightly and Ben Whishaw
Game of Throws and Dart Kings on Sky for documentaries about darts now and then.
Severance Season 2 is out on Friday.
Silo season 2
Traitors season 3
Mr. MacMahon on Netflix
Music
Cahill Costello
Michael recommends getting a Stanley Cup

Next time...
We're hoping to have Sam Jones on, talking about burnout, journalling, and plenty more fun stuff.