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
Tim Denning describes looking at headlines of popular Medium articles, modifying a few words to relate them to his own experience and expertise, and then developing those headlines into full articles.
Thomas Smith • My Advice for Conquering Writer’s Block
Skills you need in the age of AI: You’ll need critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence. Some technical skills e.g. understand the AI capabilities, some data literacy, cyber threats etc.
But mostly, you’ll need truly human soft skills:
- ability to make complex decisions
- ability to have creative problem solving
All skills that will enable
If having a sense of purpose can improve your chances of success, it’s vital to imagine how what you’re working on creates change and to articulate your reasons for wanting to do it. Why you? Why this? Why now? Why for them? Why there? Why that way and not this? What’s your story and how will you stay true to it?
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
"If it's not a Hell Yes, then it's a NO."
@sivers
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
“The secret to winning is learning how to lose.
That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred—and continuing to steadily march toward your potential.
Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.”
That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred—and continuing to steadily march toward your potential.
Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.”
3-2-1: On the Best Exercise, the Secret to Winning, and Dealing With Disappointment | James Clear
According to him — and this has certainly been the case whenever I’ve done it — your business grows in exact proportion to how many norms you defy, and how ruthlessly you do it. It may very well be the single easiest way to make more sales, build a more influential & popular brand, and create customers that want to buy your every offer — if for no
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If you want to do anything big, get used to people questioning your choices.
Delusional conviction
Delusional optimism
It won't look "normal" to most, and it shouldn't.
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comMotivation and Inspo
Weird GPT token for Reddit user davidjl123, “a keen member of the /r/counting subreddit. He’s posted incremented numbers there well over 163,000 times. Presumably that subreddit ended up in the training data used to create the tokenizer used by GPT-2, and since that particular username showed up hundreds of thousands of times it ended up getting
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