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
So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"
I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.
And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually,
**Enjoy the Journey**
- Enjoy the journey itself, not just the destination.
- Success is a starting point, not an end point.
Snipped from Creator Science - #224: I cannot emphasize this enough [Voice Memo].
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- Enjoy the journey itself, not just the destination.
- Success is a starting point, not an end point.
Snipped from Creator Science - #224: I cannot emphasize this enough [Voice Memo].
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The company is an extension of my psychology as the founder. All my strengths and knowledge get amplified and extended, but so do my weaknesses and limitations.
- Tiago Forte on X
Startup Advice and
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Most times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.
Nikita Bier • Tweet
I've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a bit of unconventional -- is *not* to read any papers related to long-context, but to talk to the model
- Talk to the model about a text book, course slides, financial... See more
Yao Fux.comOver the next year or two, I expect GPT-4 and its successors to become a copilot for the mind: a digital research assistant that will bring to bear the sum total of everything you’ve read, everything you’ve thought, and everything you’ve forgotten every time you touch a keyboard.
It will solve some of the perennial problems in productivity culture:
... See moreDan Shipper • GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind
Kruschke began his (2015, p. 1) text with “This book explains how to actually do Bayesian data analysis, by real people (like you), for realistic data (like yours).