Parlon Blog

The Janitor Has Left the Building

Good Will Hunting came out TWENTY-NINE years ago. I grew up outside Boston and I was about Will’s age when it was released. I took home economics in high school with one of the kids who Matt and Ben fight,

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Zelma and the Two-Pie Problem

I dare say that most people here on LinkedIn have never heard of Zelma Calhoun. And it’s a shame, not only because the name Zelma Calhoun is pure literature and belongs in everyone’s vocabulary, but mostly because of what she

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What Mad Men Never Had to Watch

About twenty years ago, when the TV program “Mad Men” aired for the first time, I was enamored. I had always found previous eras more interesting than my own, and I had the fedoras and spats to prove it. To

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What End User Experience Actually Means

Before a customer opens a support ticket. Before the on-call phone rings at 3 AM. Before anyone posts about it. Something already went wrong, and for a while, nobody knew. That gap, between when a problem starts and when a

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Intelligence Is a Feature. Reliability Is a Discipline.

AI platforms will become essential production infrastructure. That makes observability, resilience, and accountability more important, not less. Last week, Anthropic’s platform saw elevated errors across multiple models for a stretch of the afternoon. By its own status page, the impact

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