Yes, they will always, always go sideways. I worked at a camp many years ago where we gave out a “Loser of the Week” award – it generally went to the same people each week. Why? Because they worked with all the machinery and all the jobs that had a propensity to go sideways. They weren’t Losers (it was funny), they worked hard and delivered, but when things went sideways, they went sideways. Ignore the…
Small teams make bigger strides. It’s the problem of team development that we’ve been trying to solve for decades. I think it’s because of focus, they look at a problem, discuss options, and iterate towards a solution. They don’t care about what they don’t or what might not work; they just care about seeing if they can do it. When you get bigger, you think more about what you might impact before diving into fixing…
Tokens in AI are like quarters in the arcade when you want to have the next game. But the token consumption is always going up, just like the really good games were mucho quarters. The whole point of the quarter on the screen was to put your money up there – “I’m going next” – you weren’t waiting for anyone. You were taking your chance, whether you lost to the champ or not. Now’s the…
My first ever meeting was a A & W team meeting at a food court. I had no idea why we were there; they fired someone the morning of, so they announced it here. We had danishes and Coke to drink. And when they asked if anyone had any pressing issues, I asked if I could have smaller pants because mine were too big (I know, priorities when you’re a teen). I can recall what…
Yeah, you might lose. Yeah, you might not get there. Yeah, you could blow up the launch pad. All horrific reasons are used as excuses to give up the chase when, at that precise moment, the chase is testing you to see if you’ll give up, to see how much you want it, to see how hard you’ll push. Giving up the Chase only hurts you and no one else.