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
"Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired.”
“Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness"
Chris Sacca
Consistent and profitable growth is never easy, but it’s nearly impossible without the quality, talent, and mindset of its people.
Source: Harvard Business Review / A “Growth-at-All-Costs” Mindset Can Stall Your Company
“A more practical answer is that it’s a file. This right here is a large language model, called Vicuna 7B. It’s a 4.2 gigabyte file on my computer. If you open the file, it’s just numbers. These things are giant binary blobs of numbers…”
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM
AI skepticism and
Your company will grow as quickly as your customers determine it will grow.
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
Confidence isn’t a quality we are born with or something that magically happens; it’s built through action. To create confidence, you need to get started. Every time you act, you bet on yourself and gather evidence that you can do what you set out to do.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
you haven’t really experienced AI until you have had three sleepless nights of existential anxiety, after which you can start to be productive again
Ethan Mollick • Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
Generative AI and Quotes
Phrases like 'I don't have time' can be limiting. It implies a lack of autonomy. In reality I'm choosing not to make the time.
- Dr. Aria, High Performance Psychologist