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.
@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.
“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.”
OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI code
Quotes and Generative AI
A rule I've followed, with great success, my entire life:
Tolerate odd behavior in highly-intelligent friends & acquaintances.
https://x.com/moseskagan/status/1765429798514655459?s=46&t=JMmaaCmNTudlpykV7EAn9g
"Everything we build has two outputs that could create value : what we make and what we learn. In the project model, we lose most of what we learn. When we want to work on that area again, we spend time and money relearning things we already paid for once. Or, more likely, not learning them, and making costly mistakes."
Marty Cagan
"Your diet doesn't need a name or a belief system, just enough nutrients."
@martykendall2
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
“they are experimenting unnecessarily when the problem is not yet known”
Melissa Perri
“The skill of actually figuring out what you need is probably as important as what you do after you figure it out.”
Pradeep GanapathyRaj via Matt LeMay
“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”
Naval
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
Quotes and Mental Health
4 questions of organizations [about using AI].
- What did you do that was valuable that's no longer valuable?
- What impossible things can you now do that you could not before?
- What can you democratize and bring down market?
- What can you do upmarket so you have new ways of competing?
Ethan Mollick, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2024/