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
You might as well have fun with life...
It will kick you, drag you down, and throw you sideways - but if you can take it & keep coming back for more, it's hard to lose.
Take some chances, dive in & decide that it's okay to take hits - and that's how you really start winning.
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comMost people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail. —Steve Jobs
Noah Kagan • Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
William Orton, President of Western Union (1876)
This is contrarian value. When you decide to attack or neglect something in the category that everyone else cares about and in doing so unlock new territory.
Alex M H Smith • No Bullsh*t Strategy
“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
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
Raise your standards, pick up the pace, sharpen your focus, and align your people. You don't need to bring in reams of consultants to examine everything that is going on. What you need on day one is to ratchet up expectations, energy, urgency, and intensity.
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
There are two types of driven people.
Those who want to get it done. And those who want to get it right.
All people who want to get it right want to get it done.
Almost nobody who wants to get it done wants to get it right.
Evan LaPointex.comFocus means head down. Big picture means head up. The more you’re doing of one, the less you’re doing of the other. If you’ve been head-down on a task for too long, lift your head up to make sure you’re going the right way. Don’t do well what you shouldn’t do at all.