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
Everything is hard, everything is risky and nothing is guaranteed. So going after something big enough to matter makes sense
Five Insights From Investing in Prolific Machines - Mayfield
I don't play zero-sum games.
I noticed that whenever I was faced with a competitive, zero-sum game – a situation in which someone else had to lose in order for me to win, or vice versa I chose to opt out of that game completely.
- Tiago Forte on X
The most successful people. . . often aren't directly pursuing conventional notions of success. They're working hard and persisting through difficulties because of their internal desire to control their lives, learn about their world, and accomplish something that endures.
Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, p. 60.
"Our only task in life is to know our truth and act from that truth." But if the mind gets involved, it will prevent us from sharing and sharing as in sharing openly.
- Dr. Aria, High Performance Coach
Mental Health and Quotes
Writing is a critical skill — perhaps the most important — of all the skills required to analyze data. The only way to get better at writing is to write, ideally every day.
Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories with Data
data science and
CEO’s job: “connect the company’s purpose to its strategy and operating model”
Bain & Co
https://www.bain.com/insights/revitalizing-joy-to-remain-relevant-video/
Skills you need in the age of AI: You’ll need critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence. Some technical skills e.g. understand the AI capabilities, some data literacy, cyber threats etc.
But mostly, you’ll need truly human soft skills:
- ability to make complex decisions
- ability to have creative problem solving
All skills that will enable
I can give it a video of my screen as I use my computer, and it accurately understands what I am doing and what I could do better. This allows the AI to work, for better or worse, as a manager or advisor based on observing the real world.
Ethan Mollick • Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
Ethan Mollick explains how Gemini brings us a step closer to the idea of your “AI Chief of Staff” (Cal Newport)
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova