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
Contrary to what we see and hear, reaching your potential isn’t even something that usually happens in your twenties—it happens in your thirties or forties or fifties.
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
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
Ethan Mollickx.comAI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't.
Paul Grahamx.comQuotes and Generative AI
I don't play zero-sum games.
I noticed that whenever I was faced with a competitive, zero-sum game – a situation in which someone else had to lose in order for me to win, or vice versa I chose to opt out of that game completely.
- Tiago Forte on X
LLMs combine what they “learned” in training with any new context you give them. There are many ways to give the AI additional context, the most common is in the prompt that you provide (“You should act like a marketer and help me respond to a request for proposal”), or any documents you upload to the AI.
Ethan Mollick • Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
George Mack on how your personal brand is defined not by how similar you are to the tribe, but what eccentricities make you stand out from it:
"Only the irrational behaviour survives - If you study the biographies of the greats or attend the funerals of people you care about — the normal rational behavior is never mentioned. Instead, it’s filled
... See moreElon Musk:
“I believe in the physics approach to thinking.
You're always weighing the probabilities that something is true or not true, or that there may be a third explanation.
Be very open to new facts and changing your mind.” https://t.co/PMANNtY8y0
ELON CLIPSx.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.