I just did a quick Google search, trying to find an existing Excel spreadsheet template to do sprint burndowns for Scrum.  I badly mistyped, and ended up requesting Google do a search on ‘excel spritn burdown chart’.  Google couldn’t find anything on that search request (imagine that), but did offer: Did you mean: excel sprint burndown chart .

Not too long ago, I considered applying at Google.  They’re now up in Pittsburgh, we’ve got family up there, and wouldn’t it be interesting to get to work at a company that’s just become such a hallmark of our times.  I ended up deciding that, one, we weren’t really all THAT interested in moving to Pittsburgh, and also that I liked enjoying the idea of being able to say I worked at Google more than I enjoyed the practicalities of interviewing and working there.  Frankly, I’m not sure I’m smart enough to work there, and I’d rather not prove it to myself (or worse, have it proved to me).  (Even worse, somehow, would be the idea that you DON’T have to be smart to work there, that all of the things that they’ve built have been built using generally good folks like me who just somehow create technical magic.)

Anyway, Google’s intuition of my real search term needs brought all of that to mind and inspired an impromptu mid-day blog.  Now back to my generally interesting, but not nearly so AI-like kind of existence.