Jon Mead
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Jon Mead
Seek out novelty in the mundane.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix 🕊 • carry yourself lightly
David Bowie also had a go with ‘Even a Fool Learns to Love’, later recycling the rejected material as ‘Life on Mars?’
David Cheal • The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs
Generative AI combines the encoding of vast corpuses of text and images—which act as training data—and a series of machine learning algorithms to turn text prompts into incredibly creative, intelligent, and useful visual and text responses.
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
The starting point of any RAG system is its source data, often consisting of a vast corpus of text documents, websites, or databases
DataStax • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained: Understanding Key Concepts
It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that you were – on balance – OK as you were? Or did you somewhere along the way derive an impression that you needed to be extraordinary in order to deserve a place on the earth? And, to raise an associat... See more
Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
The script we came up with hit all the best practices of negotiation we’ve talked about so far. Here it is by steps: A “No”-oriented email question to reinitiate contact: “Have you given up on settling this amicably?” A statement that leaves only the answer of “That’s right” to form a dynamic of agreement: “It seems that you feel my bill is not jus
... See moreChris Voss • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
Yet many of us who have tried to use data to inform decisions in organizations have experienced a different reality. One where we are constantly confused by how metrics are defined, bicker over how to interpret various analyses, and struggle to apply the insights into action.
Julie Zhuo • The Data-Informed Manifesto
While we’re busy with the tactical stuff, we often skip the important first step—of reflecting deeply about the reason our idea or project needs to exist and the change we’re trying to create. This first step is harder than it seems, because asking these deeper questions makes us feel vulnerable to failure. We’d rather press on unenlightened, doing
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