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
In a situation like this, there are two general pieces of advice one can give: keep your options open, and pay close attention to what's happening. Then if you can't predict the changes AI will cause, you'll at least be able to react quickly to them.
Paul Grahamx.com"One kind of entrepreneur you say, Whose need am I satisfying today? [...] The other kind, to quote Michael Schraig here, is to say, the purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else. This is the kind of business that we remember generations later"
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
Everything you want, is on the other side of doing things you don't want to do.
Hard conversations
Work that is "boring"
Taking chances on things that might fail
Do the things you don't want to do.
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.com“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
Error 1 – Vague, wooly, “pretty” strategies In some (or if we’re honest many) cases, the reason a strategy doesn’t demand change from a business is because it’s written in such a loose and broad way that there are no obvious actions which fall out of it. It’s not that there aren’t necessarily any changes that can be made, it’s just that they don’t
... See moreAlex M H Smith • No Bullsh*t Strategy
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.
James Clear • 3-2-1: On being bigger than your problems, personal responsibility, and inner circle friendships
To create confidence, you need to get started. Every time you act, you bet on yourself and gather evidence that you can do what you set out to do.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
If we strip everything else away, the reason we need an ability to learn is to help us find and obtain food. We need fuel to learn, and we need learning to find a source of fuel…’ (Ratey & Hagerman, 2009).