Secrets of the Christmas Tree Trade
Get in the Christmas spirit by admiring the tree business in NYC. Learn how the firs are delivered. How turf wars can start. The going rate for protection. And the (typically) weird Scientology involvement.
Denner's Digest - 2022-12-19
How To Be Successful
Nothing in here comes as a great surprise. But Sam Altman worked at Y Combinator and is now CEO of OpenAI. Those two experiences make his judgement worth hearing.
Generative AI: autocomplete for everything
Whilst we await artificial general intelligence, generative AI does seem to be the best leap. With that we need to reassess the fears of AGI and see the opportunities. And this post does a great job for that reframing.
Having spent some time with ChatGPT I can appreciate the dynamic proposed. I don't fear the loss of my (current) trade. Like the teams in Team Topologies, AI will reduce cognitive load and allow me to focus on value delivery. At least until AGI arrives.
Luck and the Entrepreneur: The four kinds of luck
Marc Andreessen writing about types of luck based on a book he'd read.
I've never stepped back and thought about luck. I considered it something that just happened. I'd heard the phrase "you make your own luck" but left it at that, a saying.
But there are levers you can pull to increase the opportunities for discoveries. Like opening a sail to catch as much if the wind as possible, these levers increase the surface area of luck.