The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

Our message in this book is simple: If you develop a digital mindset, you’ll be able to answer these questions and many more. You’ll be poised to thrive in the digital age. Anyone can build a digital mindset.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

But she could see the world changing around her and she recognized that to make a difference, to find personal and professional fulfillment, and to be successful in an era of rapid change, she had to become digitally literate.

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in the throes of a massive digital transformation.

In figure I-1 the cookie ingredients are the input, the recipe is the set of rules, and the delicious cookies are the output.

When organizations attempt to go digital, they often reach straight for the technology and then try to figure out how it can fit into their organization. Michael Kanaan, director of AI and machine learning for the US Air Force, calls this thinking “techno-solutionism.”

Digital tools had been turning agriculture into a data-intensive operation, but she was one of the few people outside the industry who knew it. How? By having the courage to ask questions about what she didn’t know.

the difficulty with this approach is that it is not always obvious what features are most useful for determining one particular face.