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Kheiron (a Hungarian company) is building / has built the AI to detect breast cancer from mammograms that doctors miss!

A fabulous talk on The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

 

 

Marc Andressen on why AI Won’t Cause Unemployment. Perhaps true.  I posted a counterargument from David Karpf yesterday about technological inevitability

If Russell Ackoff had given a TED Talk, this might have been it. Splendid!

The Smithsonian Open Access has tons of resources. Bookmarked.

Ethan Mollick on the Power & Weirdness of AI.

 

The Power of Art, David Brooks, NYT: “The arts work on us at that deep level, the level that really matters. You give me somebody who disagrees with me on every issue, but who has a good heart — who has the ability to sympathize with others, participate in their woes, longings and dreams — well, I want to stay with that person all day. You give me a person who agrees with me on every particular, but who has a cold, resentful heart — well, I want nothing to do with him or her.”

Impression Management: “Most of us would like to impress the people we work with. But new research from Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alexandra Feldberg finds that, for women managers, this aspiration can undermine performance.”

High Leverage activities: ” ‘moving the needle’ … has become one of these overused bits of business jargon you will hear in many organizations, used to describe work with a small yet noticeable impact. … it can be exhaustive and counterproductive for an individual to follow such a strategy.”

Elizabeth Gilbert: What to do when ideas come knocking.

Non-linear career paths are the future. Caroline Castrillion, writing in Forbes, echoes what I’m seeing among many of my colleagues. “While salary is important, workers are looking for more than just a paycheck. Increasingly, flexible and remote working options, work-life balance and career development opportunities are coming to the forefront. When people think about their ideal workplace, they want to feel valued, trusted and inspired. As a result, non-linear career paths that offer these types of benefits will become more common.”

Ted Bauer:  Management is not intuitive “You think it’s about control and making sure people hit their targets, just like you hit yours to become promoted. The last thing most people think about when they become a manager is “Oh, I should give people more freedom.”

Leo Babauta on The practice of letting go of mental constructs

Staying in the game – a beautiful story.

Barnum effect – or the Forer statements – when people read generic statements they often believe them to be highly personal.

David Karpf on manufactured inevitability. Neil Postman wrote about this in Technopoly – the echoes are loud.

In Design-by-wire, Mathew Strom describes why it’s important that designers (& I’d say everyone) get familiar with how AI tools function: “we don’t have to be able to write the code that drives these tools, but we need to understand the way the systems work.”

The Unaware Snoop: Seth paints a possible scenario

Nick Morgan on the real purpose of having eye contact.

 

This may be true of more than just Saas products: The paradox of More Value

Reminder John Cleese on Creativity

Bono & the Edge – a sort of homecoming with David Letterman, in Dublin

Leave a little room for the courtyard

 

Cognitive Diversity: The Key To Innovation

Steven Sinofsky’s thoughts on AI, ChatGPT, and Bing: “27/ Everyone’s job looks easy from the outside. But until you actually try to automate a job out of existance or replace the workdlow or tooling of a job, you don’t really know what is the human part or where the “work” happens.”

Dave Snowden: How leaders change culture through small actions

John Zimmer: Talk like a PRO when you speak: Privilege, Responsibility, Opportunity.

Paul Graham: How to get new ideas

An unbelievable Twitter thread from Amanda Knox, who was sentenced to prison for 26 years for a murder she didn’t commit.

Fred Wilson on What does “native” mean.  The post echoes a similar conversation I was having with one of my kids about starting with the atomic units of understanding and allowing imagination to build up combinations from there.

The Kings of Strings. Mindblowing performance

Colin Newlyn on the 4 Day Work week:  ask your employees how to do it. Sounds banal advice, but it’s a sad state of affairs that few employers do!

Noah Smith advises against being a doomer: “If we start to see everything in the world as a mortal threat, it makes us incapable of focusing our efforts on the actual priorities.”

Steve McCrone shares a strategy for uncertainty. An bomb disposal expert in a past life, this conversation is full of pithy nuggets (“do all your thinking before you put on your bomb suit”)

In a constrained financial environment, what should innovators do? Strategyzer has some ideas.

Where do the super rich go for rehab?

Dave Snowden explains Sense-making & Complexity.  This resonates really strongly with me – and there’s so much to learn about.

 

 

 

Elizabeth Ayers posits that meetings *are* the work.

Adam Mastroianni had a skull full of poison, and now he has a fiance.

Estelle Weyl put together a page on how to learn HTML

Dr. Hannah Rose explains Reciprocity decay

John Mayer on movement and creation. Brilliant!

Prof Irving Wladawsky-Berger offers a measured take on Are LLM’s truly intelligent?