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When you come to a fork in the road, take it

– Yogi Berra

Thinking more about the job site metaphor, another area where there is a lot to learn is around tools.

Knowledge work sometimes gets this mystical quality about it. Sure, knowledge workers don’t produce widgets, they produce information or something.

If feedback is slow in coming for your position, here is an interesting exercise to try.

You don’t know when your moment in the spotlight will come. Or if it will come at all. But when it does come, you need to be ready.

We’re at an interesting moment culturally. The notion of “AI” covers a very wide range of technological capabilities as well as projections for the future. In a sense, this isn’t new.

Today I was going to write a short post about the phrase “the whole is more than the sum of its parts.” However, when I went to look it up, I learned that it is actually a misquote! It’s a mashup of two quotes.

Imagine: you are writing something in Word (or Google Docs). Doesn’t really matter what. In your open window, you receive a popup:

In a situation with a high probability of failure (losing to the Knicks and being eliminated from the playoffs), Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey took a low probability shot.

Ten years from now… Will OpenAI be a major force in the economy? I’m not sure. Will Google be the go-to firm for AI (however AI is defined in the future)? Maybe.