Johann Van Tonder

"Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired.”

“Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness"

Chris Sacca

“The fact that these things model language is probably one of the biggest discoveries in history. That you (LLM) can learn language by just predicting the next word … — that’s just shocking to me.”

- Mikhail Belkin, computer scientist at the University of California

When you're being presented with fear, your only task is to experience that fear.
If we can almost begin to welcome the fear, the meaning of life is to experience life.

Where we get stuck is when we think that we are the fear and it's consuming. It's who we are. But you're so much bigger than it. The fear is just the object of the consciousness.

Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, as if they were working on any other project that requires logic: … doing an algebra problem.

Good writing doesn’t come naturally, though most people seem to think it does.

On Writing Well, William Zinsser

Your job isn’t to be “good”. Your job is to offer something specific which some people will think is good, and some people will probably think is bad.

Patterns when telling stories with data: - What is the dataset? Who generated the dataset and why? - What is the process that underpins the dataset? Given that process, what is missing from the dataset or has been poorly measured? Could other datasets have been generated, and if so, how different could they have been to the one that we have? - What