10 takeaways from ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream’ by Bill Gurley
10 key takeaways from the book “Runnin’ Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love” by Bill Gurley
Career regret is at crisis levels — and it’s avoidable: Gurley’s Wharton study of 10,000 Americans found that nearly six in ten people would do things differently if they could start …
Brilliant interactive timeline of tech evolution www.historicaltechtree.com
Nice visual to articulate “both can be true”
Gen AI Paradox in Corporations
Nice graphic showing supporting the GenAI paradox argument with examples of horizontal and vertical AI tooling in corporations. Key takeaway is the horizontal tools often give the impression of GenAI adding value, whereas there is little overall business value. Vertical ones offer significant value …
Monolithic vs Microservice architecture
Nice simple visual to show monolithic vs microservice architecture.
The Art of Dealing with Meeting Dynamics
The art of dealing with meeting dynamics in leadership meetings
AI Agents by Domain
If you want to get started with using a pre-built #ai tools to help your business but don’t know where to start, this is a helpful map of #ai agents grouped by domain. I think it also serves as an interesting snapshot of where the best use cases must be
2024 Ofcom Online Nation
2024 Ofcom Online Nation summarised into some key takeaways:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗽: Women spend significantly more time online than men across all age groups, with 18-24 year old women spending over an hour longer online daily than their male counterparts (6h 36m vs 5h 28m).
𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 …
2x2 for articulating AI needs
2x2 for articulate AI needs
Y-axis - “Trust” - how important it is that the product gives a correct answer to be helpful X-axis - “Change” - the business change effort to get the product to work 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁 = Easy to fit into existing workflows, easy to verify their outputs …
The evolution of vertical SaaS
The evolution of vertical SaaS - i.e. software stacks that serve an industry vertical showing how AI can build on the work of Cloud and Fintech to enable more complex customer facing services to be automated. Allowing the business to focus on serving their customers.
10 takeaways from ‘Never Split the Difference’
10 takeaways from the book “Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss
1. Tactical Empathy: Use empathy as a tool to build trust and rapport. Voss emphasizes the importance of understanding the other party’s perspective to navigate negotiations effectively.
2. Mirroring: Repeat the last few …
10 takeaways from 'Good to Great'
10 key takeaways from the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins
1. Level 5 Leadership: Great companies are led by humble, willful leaders who put the company’s success above their own ego. Collins gives the example of Darwin Smith of Kimberly-Clark, who transformed the company …
2x2 matrix in From Good to Great on balance of entrepreneurship and discipline. Nice way to summarise orgs that start small and innovative then hire the wrong type of people as they scale and have to add strict processes to mitigate poor hiring. Key to being in Top Right is hiring the right people.
Interactive wheel of the basic human emotions, how they relate to each other, intensify and combine to form more complex feelings. Useful to help people/leaders understand how they feeling in the moment and react more constructively in negative situations.
5 Levels of Effective Leadership by Jim Collins in From Good to Great. Fully developed leaders embody all 5 levels
Useful AI Links
Aggregator/Community: Hugging Face: An AI community platform facilitating collaboration among the machine learning community on models, datasets, and applications. There's an AI for That: A comprehensive database featuring thousands of AI tools for various tasks, updated daily and utilized by over …
10 takeaways from 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck'
10 key takeaways from the book “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson:
1. Feedback Loop From Hell: This refers to negative cycles of thoughts and emotions like guilt, anxiety, and fear that keep repeating. Manson gives the example of a man who missed a job interview and spiraled into …
101 real-world GenAI uses cases from Google
Microsoft’s Future of Work 2024 , highlighting the use of LLMs in the workplace
House of Lords committee review on GenAI
A proposal for the modern AI stack
Every year Benedict Evans produces an invaluable resource for anyone doing research, analysis or strategy work in tech. This the report for 2024.
Useful research into the 6 different types of conversations you have with GenAI, summarised in a helpful graphic.