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The role of managers, for example, is a coordination mechanism to ensure people are broadly aligned and doing what they’re supposed to.

Long sales cycles — Large buyers in infrastructure, industrial, and national security sectors have tended to buy through intermediaries, and typically only from large corporations who ‘check off all the boxes’, e.g. Prime contractors, Tier 1 suppliers, Consultancies etc. It is time to change that, and in addition to a small business grant program,... See more

When there's a new product that simultaneously captures lots of attention and ingests lots of data, it's solved the two key problems ad platforms need to solve: how to get attention, and how to direct it to the right commercial message. There are, of course, plenty of other monetizable features of large language models; they're great for searching

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This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dread pain and to fear of the unknown. Furthermore,... See more

Whenever a prediction is made about people, it is an attempt to deny they are creative and can do the unexpected. Sure, you might ask your friend where they would like to have coffee and they respond just as they always do. “You’re so predictable” you might say. Of course that’s not a prediction. You share a culture - a history - a set of memes... See more