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
Painter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration:
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are n... See more
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are n... See more
Superhuman
Productivity and
the story-driven company is responsive to customers and prioritises having a clear sense of purpose and identity. It makes little reference to the competition and is intent on creating an impact.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
I've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a bit of unconventional -- is *not* to read any papers related to long-context, but to talk to the model
- Talk to the model about a text book, course slides, financial repor... See more
Yao Fux.com“I write when I’m inspired, so I see to it I’m inspired every morning at nine o’clock.” ~ Peter De Vries
“Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.”
• Time Magazine (1966)
Time doubted that people would ever want to buy goods online, with an argument rooted in assumptions about shopping habits.
https://martech.zone/failed-predictions/
“they are experimenting unnecessarily when the problem is not yet known”
Melissa Perri
"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM
Generative AI and
So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"
I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.
And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually, that
Focus means head down. Big picture means head up. The more you’re doing of one, the less you’re doing of the other. If you’ve been head-down on a task for too long, lift your head up to make sure you’re going the right way. Don’t do well what you shouldn’t do at all.