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
“We don’t know what capabilities GPT-5 will have until we train it and test it. It might be a medium-size problem right now, but it will become a really big problem in the future as models become more powerful.”
Quotes and
"Doing things that shouldn't be done in the first place faster and cheaper does not in my view constitute progress."
Kevin Gray
what I've learned about fear is that if we stop, the only way through it is towards it.
Talks at Google • Bear Grylls | Mental Health & Beyond | Talks at Google
Bear Grylls, former UK Special Forces soldier
It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls withou... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
"There are a million opportunities. Things to say 'no' to, that you would've begged to have the opportunity to say 'yes' to only two years ago. So you're permanently readjusting the sensitivity on what constitutes a ‘hell yeah’. What you would have begged for yesterday is something you now need to learn to say 'no' to today."
#764 Modern Wisdom Podc
For a long time, Donaldson admits in a number of podcast appearances, he was afraid of putting anything complex in his videos — what if a viewer didn’t get it and stopped watching? Donaldson might very well be an advertiser’s absolute dream, the logical endpoint of an internet that’s been flattened into a samey, straightforward sludge of optimized ... See more
Patricia Hernandez • The End of the MrBeast Era
A few places you should probably use AI to help you, based on the research we have (but do whatever you want):
-Idea generation
-Writing (not writing for you, maybe, but second opinions/proofing/etc)
-Advice/finding frameworks to solve problems
-Summarizing documents & meetings
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
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 shi
... See moreThere are two types of driven people.
Those who want to get it done. And those who want to get it right.
All people who want to get it right want to get it done.
Almost nobody who wants to get it done wants to get it right.