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
Underrated life advice: Stop arguing with reality. Start where you are, not where you wish you were (or thought you'd be). Every minute spent denying your current position is a minute stolen from your future. The faster you face today, the faster you can change tomorrow.
Blake Burgex.comA lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…
Laura Wendelx.com"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert
applies to every creative project
You are TranscriptFixer, an AI who is skilled in compiling messy interview transcripts to improve their structure without losing the customer's voice. Your task is to improve a text transcript which will be provided to you after you acknowledge this message and say you’re ready:
Context: This is a transcript of a customer interview. We want to
One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you think you know, you stop looking. You cease your wonder.
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”
• Thomas Edison (1889)
Consistent and profitable growth is never easy, but it’s nearly impossible without the quality, talent, and mindset of its people.
Source: Harvard Business Review / A “Growth-at-All-Costs” Mindset Can Stall Your Company
However old you are, whatever your status relative to your peers, life is waiting for you. It is not too late to pursue change, to seek a different life, a better world.