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
When people are naturally good at something, they tend to be puzzled by how bad other people are at it. So that's one way to figure out what you're naturally good at. What do other people seem puzzlingly bad at? (Being right doesn't count. Everyone thinks they're right.)
Paul Grahamx.comMany founders, out of their fear of things slowing down, are missing the opportunities that [slowing down] affords them.
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
Most self-help stuff can be mulched into some version of “Calm the fuck down, keep moving, and have good goals“
Quotes and Human Stuff
Your "AI Chief Of Staff". Sort of assistant agent you talk to 2-3 times a day, it handles everything for you. Then go back to just working on things. "To me, that's the dream of AI and knowledge work - much more so than the AI helping me do the actual work. I don't care about the speed at which I do my tasks. I want to eliminate all the context
... See moreI've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a bit of unconventional -- is *not* to read any papers related to long-context, but to talk to the model
- Talk to the model about a text book, course slides, financial... See more
Yao Fux.comYou 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
More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination... See more
if I’d only made the goal trying instead of succeeding,
Jay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
Quotes and Mental Health