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
Over the next year or two, I expect GPT-4 and its successors to become a copilot for the mind: a digital research assistant that will bring to bear the sum total of everything you’ve read, everything you’ve thought, and everything you’ve forgotten every time you touch a keyboard.
It will solve some of the perennial problems in productivity culture:
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I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.
Things I'm thinking about
Learned something interesting from the CEO of a fairly big tech co. Usually 28 year olds are more productive programmers than 22 year olds, because they have more experience. But apparently 22 year olds are now as good as 28 year olds because they're more at ease using AI.
Paul Grahamx.com
In 1903, the New York Times predicted it would take 1–10 million years to invent a working airplane.
The Wright brothers made their first powered flight just 9 weeks later.
“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)
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
What were their roots? Why had the company started? How did their backstory influence the work they did today and how might it affect their aspirations for the future?
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
"Your network is your net worth"
- Charlie Munger / @tferriss
Your job isn’t to be “good”. Your job is to offer something specific which some people will think is good, and some people will probably think is bad.