AI is reshaping how we do our work. I was just at the age where I could apply the internet immediately to what I was doing when it took off. I started coding HTML and learning how to make things work, and from there went into JavaScript and many other lovely languages 🙂 My work wasn’t reshaped at that point; it just took on this “thing” called the “Internet”. But now I’m embedded, now I’ve…
I can’t remember when or where, but at some place I worked, someone put this sign up as they were doing stuff. The person, in general, was anything but a genius, and I think this made them feel good about doing “genius” style work. Truth of the matter, we don’t need more “genius, half-created, kind of works, skunkworks” work – we need good quality work, that makes sense, that has value, that builds confidence. That’s…
I took a day, went into the cave, and accomplished so much. I left that day feeling like I had made a huge dent in my pile of work. The next day, I had questions, emails, and instant messages from everyone, and my output dropped like a rock. That’s where AI will beat us, where we have to context switch, AI doesn’t. It takes your question/complaint/prompt and keeps working at the same time in the…
Snow is proof that change happens with just a few pluses and/or minuses in degrees. The colder it gets, the more it stays on the ground; the warmer it gets, the more it melts and drips into something else. Change, with a difference of a few degrees. That all it takes, is a little nudge.
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.