Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
2 Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing
Nassim Taleb on leveraging serendipity of social gatherings
Third, I'm trying to learn more about how these Generative AI systems work more deeply and uncover their creative potential. You've seen my explorations with Midjourney through the cover images of many of the last few newsletters, including this one.
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
Seven Surprises for New CEOs
hbr.org
Really good HBR article about tough lessons for new CEOs of bigger companies (2004 but still very relevant)
Sources:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/12/mic...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/chi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physic...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155
https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/15...
https://openai.com/blog/instruction-f...
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
... See moreColdFusion • It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond)
Key features of the 2.0 release
- New text-to-image diffusion models using a brand new text encoder (OpenCLIP). Result: improved image quality, although not everyone likes the style.
- Super-resolution upscaler diffusion models which enhance the resolution of images by a factor of 4.
- Depth-to-image diffusion model which infers the depth of an input
Lore.com • Lore AI Newsletter #7: Stable Diffusion 2.0
Self-Efficacy: Bandura's Theory Of Motivation In Psychology
Gabriel Lopez-Garridosimplypsychology.org
Self efficacy comes from
Mastery / direct experience
Role modeling / vicarious experience
Encouragement / self talk
Emotional / physiological states
Imagined performance / mental rehearsal
That gives me the power #drinking #fast
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