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
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman
A great way to get out of your head and into your world is to do a task you can actually finish.
Jon Acuff • Soundtracks
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Inspo and Motivation
To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.
data science and Quotes
I want it to be totally okay and acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.
"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback."
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
One way to think about (LLM) is that about 3 years ago, aliens landed on Earth. They handed over a USB stick and then disappeared. Since then we’ve been poking the thing they gave us with a stick, trying to figure out what it does and how it works.
Quotes and
Most self-help stuff can be mulched into some version of “Calm the fuck down, keep moving, and have good goals“
Quotes and Human Stuff