Johann Van Tonder

"One kind of entrepreneur you say, Whose need am I satisfying today? [...] The other kind, to quote Michael Schraig here, is to say, the purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else. This is the kind of business that we remember generations later"

Younger workers benefit more from labor-augmenting tech, like AI.

“In other words, workers who were used to doing things a certain way struggled to adapt when complementary technology arrived, while less-experienced workers could harness the power of these new tools.”

Source: Kellogg Insight

Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say?

Surprisingly often they don’t know.

Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?
Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?

On Writing Well, William Zinsser

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.

- Simon Williamson

Yes, you could fail, but we all know what happens when you don’t try—nothing.