Andy Claremont
@andymci
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Building things on the web for a living.
Andy Claremont
andymci.com
The less obvious way to buy back your time is to say no. Passing on a promotion might “buy” you more time with family. Declining the dinner invite might “pay” for the time you need to exercise. We buy back our time not only with the money we spend, but also with the opportunities we decline.
The more clearly you know how you want to spend your days,
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A Good Life and Life
There are people that talk about things they love and people that talk about things they hate.
If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone else’s work better, and potentially continue to create new value. Some creations are built for the moment, while some are built for a lifetime. But the secret is motivation. If a company decides one
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Creativity and
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Life and A Good Life
But if genAI is going to transform the organization, it doesn’t make sense to wait to start preparing data. We — and most of the survey respondents — agree that genAI is a transformative capability. The job to make a large organization’s important data ready for AI could easily take several years. The time to start is now.
Harvard Business Review • Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
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