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.
@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.
The most successful people. . . often aren't directly pursuing conventional notions of success. They're working hard and persisting through difficulties because of their internal desire to control their lives, learn about their world, and accomplish something that endures.
Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, p. 60.
There is nothing wrong with having financial goals and achieving milestones, but these are simply means to an end. If you believe that your agency exists solely to make money, then you likely are falling short of your potential and cheating your employees of opportunities to realize theirs.
Paul Roetzer
Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphical design (original character design in games is gone), writing music (new melodies can be generated by clicking "refresh" and then improved), literature. You never start from scratch anymore. Which i
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“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.”
OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI code
Quotes and Generative AI
A rule I've followed, with great success, my entire life:
Tolerate odd behavior in highly-intelligent friends & acquaintances.
https://x.com/moseskagan/status/1765429798514655459?s=46&t=JMmaaCmNTudlpykV7EAn9g
"Everything we build has two outputs that could create value : what we make and what we learn. In the project model, we lose most of what we learn. When we want to work on that area again, we spend time and money relearning things we already paid for once. Or, more likely, not learning them, and making costly mistakes."
Marty Cagan
"Your diet doesn't need a name or a belief system, just enough nutrients."
@martykendall2
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
“they are experimenting unnecessarily when the problem is not yet known”
Melissa Perri
“The skill of actually figuring out what you need is probably as important as what you do after you figure it out.”
Pradeep GanapathyRaj via Matt LeMay