Author: neil

John Hagel: Cultivating & Connecting capabilities

Ed Brenegar: An Unsolvable Problem?

Seth Godin: Useful assumptions for teachers

 

Roger Martin: A Dangerous Schism between courses on business strategy & statistics that flows through into the world.

Corporate Rebels: Knowledge sharing in decentralised firms has some interesting ideas worth exploring.

Tommy Enamel (lol) & Mike Dawes at Guitar Village is spell-binding

When trying to get your head around a new technology, it helps to focus on how it challenges existing categorizations, conventions, and rule sets. Internally, I’ve always called this exercise, “dealing with the platypus in the room.” Named after the category-defying animal; the duck-billed, venomous, semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal. […] AI is the biggest platypus I’ve ever seen. Nearly every notable quality of AI and LLMs challenges our conventions, categories, and rulesets. — Drew Breunig

Tyler Cowen: AI Experts aren’t always right about AI

Jason Cohen: What a startup does to you

Robert Reich’s Cabinet Chair 🙂

Avalanche caught by a drone

 

A16Z: Navigating the high cost of AI compute

How to design & test business ideas.

Arxiv: LORA – Low Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models. More attention is being paid to this from the open source community.

Transformers explained. The “Attention is All You Need” paper.

To really understand a person: Doug Dietz story of MRI machines.

“Leadership is the capacity of a human community to shape its future”. – Peter Senge

Turn the Ship Around: David L Marquet, Talks at Google

Dr. Laurie Santos in 2019, Why aren’t successful people happier? and what’s Dr. Santos doing now?

Every news publisher should Support RSS feeds

Will AI become the new McKinsey?

Jeremy Keith clarifies “innovation“:

Jessica Hagy: 10 Ways to Matter More

Kevin Kelly in conversation with Tyler Cowen

 

 

 

Fred Wilson: AI VC: “I also don’t think an AI has my humanity, my ego, my empathy, my love, or my hate.”

“Obviously the best possible time to wake up is in the June of our tenth year, on the first day of summer vacation.” – Barbara Holland. Obviously!

Hobbies vs hustle: the main difference between a hobby and a hustle is whether you have to do it even when you don’t want to. Client waiting for a deliverable, customers who subscribed to receive a specific service, paid commitment to write a piece? That’s a hustle. Nobody cares whether I do the thing or not? That’s a hobby.”

Henrik Karlsson: Internet- an user manual. “I’ve found it useful to only use the internet when I’m sitting in my study — as if I was going to the gym. Something about climbing the stairs, walking past the bookshelves, and sitting down at the desk shapes my expectations such that my values become salient. I also start each session by looking over my notetaking system, where I keep lists of projects, problems, and questions I’m working on and where I journal.”

Amelia Wattenberger: Why Chatbots are not the future

John Durrant: Cognitive Load Theory: “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” – John Woods”

Simon Willison: Let’s be bear or bunny “The “Let’s be bear or bunny” pattern is a way of looking at situations and problems in a certain way. It is a way of approaching a problem or situation with a sense of playfulness and lightheartedness, while still being able to think critically and analytically.” written by an AI!

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis

 

AI Drake + Google

Willie Nelson is 90,& Billy Strings made a song with him. California Sober

 

Stochastic Parrots Day – conversations worth a listen

David Cain: Knowing is doing, not remembering

Learnt a bit about bow rosin. “Bow hair is great to use for playing string instruments, except for one thing: by itself, it cannot create the friction needed to cause a string to vibrate and produce sound! An application of a sticky substance, like rosin, is necessary to create the friction needed to cause the string to vibrate. The friction against the string actually causes rosin to melt momentarily, sticking to the string and pulling it, which activates the string’s vibration.”

Donald Bourreaux: Drops and splashes

Graham Wallas: The Art of Thought, 1926

 

The LangChain AI Handbook

John Hagel: What does Strategy really mean? “Strategy will be about anticipating growing unmet needs of people outside the organization and developing approaches that can deliver more and more distinctive impact over time by addressing those needs.”

Kate ONeill: AI is not a strategy

LEGO Group’s Loren Shuster on their people-first approach: “The LEGO Group sees children as role models. They inspire us because they are forever learners. Our mission in return is to inspire and develop them because they are the builders of tomorrow.”

Robin Hanson on Rejection Bias: “Why do we define so many social conditions using impossibly high standards? Let me suggest that we set excess standards to make it easier to reject each other.”

Five Graphs that changed the world

Quintin ponders if ChatGPT will reinvigorate another ‘old’ invention, PGP