Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours
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I don't play zero-sum games.
I noticed that whenever I was faced with a competitive, zero-sum game – a situation in which someone else had to lose in order for me to win, or vice versa I chose to opt out of that game completely.
- Tiago Forte on X
Ethan Mollick explains how Gemini brings us a step closer to the idea of your “AI Chief of Staff” (Cal Newport)
I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.
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Your "AI Chief Of Staff". Sort of assistant agent you talk to 2-3 times a day, it handles everything for you. Then go back to just working on things. "To me, that's the dream of AI and knowledge work - much more so than the AI helping me do the actual work. I don't care about the speed at which I do my tasks. I want to eliminate all the context shi
... See moreEveryone 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