The common assumption about automation, even setting aside the financial effects, is that people will be incredibly unhappy without work.

• What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.


• Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read an

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Don’t view business school as a pit stop or a break. View it as a limited period of time in which you can

take a risk with a lot of resources backing you up

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“What is it worth to be the company that quite literally makes every company more profitable?”

“Think about one person who has not enjoyed working with you. Picture them. What would they say?”

Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for

We have machines now that we can basically talk to like humans. It’s a remarkable testament to the human capacity to adjust that this seems normal, that we’ve become inured to the pace of progress.

It’s an interesting question to think about. Profit is the ultimate arbiter of a business’ financial success. It’s not just about saving money – spending too little can be as damaging as spending too much – but about investing money intelligently in the things that produce outcomes.

A-players create success while B-players participate in success.