Constantly be thinking about the services you provide and where they sit in the hierarchy of ideas. What about what you do can be replaced easily, and what about what you do is resilient? Are you the SME? Are you creating AI tools? Or are you the polymath glue that solves problems with AI?
Society: Sea transport and hacking. Everything is practice. Newsletters as “IDEA, BUILD, SHOW”. Future of education? Bellingcat’s guide on mental hygiene. Using AI to understand sperm whales.
Tech: Detecting polyglot files. Bitcoin isn’t anonymous. From engineering delivery to management. Pre and Post-AI worlds. Hubble vs Webb on a patch of dark sky. AI-prompt for professional coaching. “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior” [PDF]. Framablog review of privacy-friendly communication apps.
DIY: CSK Harvester. Newspaper blackout poems.
LLMs: More on Vicuna (13B, tuto). GPT4ALL-tuto. LLaMa-index. AutoGPT-tuto. pip install Dolly-tuto.
People and AI: BCG’s take on People strategy.
"The new A.I. is a challenge to the status quo. Higher productivity means fewer billable hours, yet hourly billing remains the dominant business model in legal work. A.I. should increase the pressure from corporate clients to pay law firms for work done rather than time spent.”
“When we observe luxury brands, we notice the flashy things. Brands make their money on presenting a tight, coherent narrative. But, to me, the most interesting part of luxury isn’t these things. It is the things that go on behind the scenes, and the promises that are kept for consumers when things go wrong. The true test of luxury is what happens on the back end. And the best brands do service, repairs, and customer service impeccably.”