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
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
Even if LLMs don’t get smarter (though I suspect they will, and soon) new capabilities and modes of interacting with AIs, like agents and massive context windows, will help LLMs do dramatic new feats.
Ethan Mollick • Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
Ethan Mollick
Contrary to what we see and hear, reaching your potential isn’t even something that usually happens in your twenties—it happens in your thirties or forties or fifties.
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say?
Surprisingly often they don’t know.
Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?
Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert
applies to every creative project
When I go into a situation, I try to keep a mindset of baseline optimism.
Problems will inevitably arise and I’ll deal with them as the situation demands, but my preference is to assume I’m... See more
- When starting the day: It’s going to be a good day.
- When meeting someone new: I’m going to like them.
- When trying something challenging: It’s going to work out.
Problems will inevitably arise and I’ll deal with them as the situation demands, but my preference is to assume I’m... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On hats, haircuts, and tattoos
Remember: you + your cofounder vs The Problem
“I encourage founding teams to do everything they possibly can to remember that their co-founders are on their side”
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
Everyone 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