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
goatherders on May 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?
Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.
1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales org... See more
Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.
1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales org... See more
ycombinator.com • Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.
You must remove all subjective language from your strategy and see what’s left. What is subjective language? Anything that’s in the eye of the beholder, anything that’s a judgement, words like: •Good •Great •Incredible •World-class •Best •Smart •Etc.
Alex M H Smith • No Bullsh*t Strategy
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
“…this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of
... See moreThe famous critique of writing by Socrates, recounting a myth about the Egyptian gods Theuth (inventor of writing) and Thamus (a king).
Writing might seem like a good tool for learning, but it actually makes people more forgetful. Why? Because when people rely on writing, they stop using their own memory. They don’t truly learn or retain knowledge inside themselves; they just look things up.
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy
Glennon Doyle • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM
Generative AI and
the story-driven company is responsive to customers and prioritises having a clear sense of purpose and identity. It makes little reference to the competition and is intent on creating an impact.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
4 questions of organizations [about using AI].
- What did you do that was valuable that's no longer valuable?
- What impossible things can you now do that you could not before?
- What can you democratize and bring down market?
- What can you do upmarket so you have new ways of competing?
Ethan Mollick, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2024/
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell