Why You Should Teach At A Community College
Roger Martin writes about a procurement experience
Blast from the past: How do you use a rotary phone?
Esther Perel on The Other AI: Artificial Intimacy
Links
2023-04-24 Links
Seth Godin: The Cliffs Notes Paradox
Rishad Tobaccowala: 12 Career Lessons
Ben Kuhn: Some Mistakes I Made as a New Manager
2023-04-23 Links
Mitchell Hashimoto: Prompt engineering vs blind prompts “…the argument that prompt engineering is a real skill that can be developed based on real experimental methodologies.”
Jon Ive on the lessons of focus
Open source Causal AI tools & libraries at ACM WSDM-23
2023-04-22 Links
2023-04-19 Links
Sara Canaday explores whether ChatGPT is a Novelty on Legitimate Leadership Tool?
I should just point to Seth’s posts every day. The natural size is a reminder that scale isn’t everything.
David Perell: I hate writing (& so will you)
Carlota Perez‘s Lifecycle of Innovation is a must read
Hannes Bajohr Whoever controls language models controls politics
2023-04-18 Links
Gary Klein: The Comedy Mindset
Tim Bray offers a couple of examples of things working well.
Tyler Cowen: At what rate should we tax AI workers?
A superlative collection of math related content: When in doubt, do more maths
Seth Godin: The Explosion: “Things decay unless we persistently work to support them. Organizations, reputations, systems, health, investments… even our teeth.”
2023-04-16 Links & stuff
A musical weekend, discovering the prolific Steve Goodman. I was listening to John Prine’s rendition of “You Never Even Call Me By Name” and then found Steve’s own rendition.
Steve’s “City of New Orleans” and his 1978 performance at Austin City Limits.
Steve died of leukaemia at the age of 36. His wife Nancy’s liner notes: “He extracted meaning from the mundane.”
Dean Martin’s Sway & the French/English version of c’est ci bon. Tuba Skinny’s full jazz set at Jazz Heritage Centre in 2022. Cesaria Evora is the barefoot performer par excellence. Jesse Cook started playing pots & pans during Covid and it’s incredible
Taylor Bloom and Ben Cooley were on Josh Turner’s cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s Baby Driver . That video was the beginning of the discovery of so many wonderful talented young musicians. Taylor & Ben’s rendition of The Boxer and Homeward Bound. Josh & Carson mesmerize with their cover of Amazing Rhythm Aces Third Rate Romance. Reina del Cid & Toni Lindgren with Josh & Carson cover Route 66.
I heard David Graeber and Chris Voss talks at Google yesterday, and Dr. Oliver Sacks talk about musicophilia. I learnt a bunch of powerpoint techniques from the outstanding OneSkill Powerpoint channel, and put them to use on a work project. I learnt how to draw Multiple Causal Diagrams, used Excalidraw to draw them, and put them into that same project slideware.
It was a good weekend indeed.
2023-04-15 Links
Dr. Oliver Sacks Linus Pauling Lecture: Why the Brain Loves Music So Much
Chris Voss: Talks at Google – Never Split the Difference
David Graeber: Talks at Google – Debt, the first 5000 years
2023-04-14 Links
Stripe’s 2022 Annual Letter
The Guerilla artist “Sign from above” — wonderful read.
A tweet from the OpenAI alignment team lead:
Before we scramble to deeply integrate LLMs everywhere in the economy, can we pause and think whether it is wise to do so?
This is quite immature technology and we don't understand how it works.
If we're not careful we're setting ourselves up for a lot of correlated failures.
— Jan Leike (@janleike) March 17, 2023
Vice: ChatGPT hustlers taking on more jobs
Seth Godin: Fettered
2023-04-13 Links
Marc Abrahams: Think Fast, Talk Smart
Nathan Taylor: Intelligence is prediction
Noah Smith: Nobody know how many jobs will “be automated”
Seth Godin: Real and apparent risk