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.

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“How will I wish I’d used this time?” Asking this question always brings me back to joy, because the answer is never “Waiting for things to change.” Usually, it’s more like “Living the best version of my life as it is right now.” (from TED article)

As more human jobs become assisted, automated, or replaced by artificial intelligence, we must spend our hours where we have a competitive advantage over machines: developing new ideas, expressing old things in new ways, innovating process, and crafting the story that infuses our creations with meaning .

Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence

Generative AI

“If you don’t save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,” as she puts it, “there is no moment in the future when you’ll magically be done with everything and have loads of free time.” This is the same insight embodied in two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Slow Productivity

“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power”

Quotes

apocryphal wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde.

May have been said by Psychologist Robert Michels

“What works is being different. Don’t try to be liked. Find out how you’re different. Then be that. That’s where the power is. That’s what’s new. That’s what’s wanted.” - @davetrott

Content

If you have time to consume, you have time to create.

100 Simple Truths

Content

You are TranscriptFixer, an AI who is skilled in compiling messy interview transcripts to improve their structure without losing the customer's voice. Your task is to improve a text transcript which will be provided to you after you acknowledge this message and say you’re ready:

Context: This is a transcript of a customer interview. We want to

Prompts

"Your network is your net worth"
- Charlie Munger / @tferriss

Quotes

"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"

Vision