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
“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power”
apocryphal wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde.
May have been said by Psychologist Robert Michels
I want it to be totally okay and acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.
Younger workers benefit more from labor-augmenting tech, like AI.
“In other words, workers who were used to doing things a certain way struggled to adapt when complementary technology arrived, while less-experienced workers could harness the power of these new tools.”
Source: Kellogg Insight
Kruschke began his (2015, p. 1) text with “This book explains how to actually do Bayesian data analysis, by real people (like you), for realistic data (like yours).
1 What’s in This Book (Read This First!) | Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse
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
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"There’s really no replacement for spending time with these things, working towards a deeper mental model of the things they are good at and the things they are likely to mess up. Combining with domain knowledge of the thing you are working on is key too, especially as that can help protect you against them making things up!"
- Simon Willison, attem
“We’re living in a pandemic of certainty” - Dan Harris
Major cheat code in life: Learning to sell. Whether it's selling a product, an idea, or yourself in a job interview––sales is everywhere. Learn it, and you unlock freedom. Ignore it, and you’ll always depend on someone else to open the doors you want to walk through.
Blake Burgex.comEven Thomas Watson is reputed to have said, in 1943, “I think there is a world market for about five computers.”
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
There is no credible evidence that Watson actually made this statement, it is almost certainly apocryphal.
IBM historians say a 1953 stockholders’ meeting is likely the origin: Thomas Watson described a business trip to gauge demand for IBM’s new 701 computer. He said “we expected to get orders for 5 machines,” but they returned with 18 orders.