Johann Van Tonder

people’s biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage—i.e., to find and execute work that has a big impact-per-hour multiplier

When you believe, "Even if I don't succeed with this business, I'll still have a great life" ... then you are in a much better position to give it a try.

Clarifying your thinking and explaining the origins of your ideas. (Why do I think this? What exactly do I think?)

The measure of my success as a leader is how minimal my intervention can be.

I’m committed to stepping back and allowing others to make their own decisions and find their voice as leaders.

Tiago Forte on X

“A more practical answer is that it’s a file. This right here is a large language model, called Vicuna 7B. It’s a 4.2 gigabyte file on my computer. If you open the file, it’s just numbers. These things are giant binary blobs of numbers…”
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM

“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power”

Everyone freaks out, and they interpret the statement, ‘AI will affect my job’ as ‘AI will do my job for me.’

Those two things are not the same, because AI can be a tool or substitute. Just because the job may change doesn’t mean that the job will be eliminated.

Source: Kellogg Insight

Skills you need in the age of AI: You’ll need critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence. Some technical skills e.g. understand the AI capabilities, some data literacy, cyber threats etc.

But mostly, you’ll need truly human soft skills:
- ability to make complex decisions
- ability to have creative problem solving
All skills that will enable