5 months ago
If you don’t want to be challenged on your work, you have two choices; Don’t work (improbable). Do work where you won’t be challenged (i.e., something where we don’t care about the quantity or value of what you are doing). But you should want to be challenged in your work, you should want to be pushed, you should want to answer for your work. Because that is the only way you will get better.
5 months ago
Last week, I had a lot of work to get done, so I did the unthinkable – I put myself into Do Not Disturb. I generally don’t like to do this because then I feel unavailable to my team and people asking me questions, but I had to do something. At first, it was very unnerving because all the noise around me went quiet. I literally shut the door to my office, threw away the key, and no one was getting in. And it was glorious. All the thinking and scribbling work that had to get done got done, big
5 months ago
Have you ever watched a show with subtitles? I have a hard time watching “dubbed” over shows, because the words never line up with the video, and my brain can’t unsee it when it happens. Plus, when you hear the original voices and then the dubbed ones, your brain also goes – “those original voices are so much better than these other ones, I like them better”. But then, to understand what is being said, if you don’t know the language, you need to turn the subtitles on. And what do the subtitles make you do? They make you read,
6 months ago
But you’re not losing either. You just haven’t won that “thing” you’re after. That’s it, you’re not there yet, but you’re on the right path. When you connect, I don’t know, heck, I don’t even know when I’ll connect. But you’re not losing, you just haven’t won yet. Or so the speech goes.
6 months ago
If you give out sloppy directions with AI, you’re going to get sloppy outputs. This is the proof of the words – Garbage In, Garbage Out – that humanity has been saying for years with respect to leading and guiding your team. Give people vague and cloudy notions, and what you’ll get back is vague and cloudy solutions – not very valuable. The difference between AI and Humans is that with AI we get immediate feedback on how horrible our instructions are, whereas with Humans, we try to make it work, we try to figure it out, we try to
