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
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it — a costly myth."
W. Edwards Deming
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
AI 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
When people are naturally good at something, they tend to be puzzled by how bad other people are at it. So that's one way to figure out what you're naturally good at. What do other people seem puzzlingly bad at? (Being right doesn't count. Everyone thinks they're right.)
Paul Grahamx.com“…this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of
... See moreThe famous critique of writing by Socrates, recounting a myth about the Egyptian gods Theuth (inventor of writing) and Thamus (a king).
Writing might seem like a good tool for learning, but it actually makes people more forgetful. Why? Because when people rely on writing, they stop using their own memory. They don’t truly learn or retain knowledge inside themselves; they just look things up.
“Not everything that counts can be counted” - Einstein
Source: Rob Lennon
“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”
• Thomas Edison (1889)
“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours
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