I am a fan of Elon, and I am a fan of Naval. That is why I picked up “The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success”. A journey through his quotes and interviews. I found it fascinating. Particularly his focus on making things. Manufacturing is underrated. AI has commoditised nearly everything else. […]
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Every technology follows an abstraction curve In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. Like everyone else, I got distracted by the headline. The obvious implications were for education, white-collar work and professional knowledge. If a machine could pass an MBA exam, what did that say about business schools, consultants, analysts, managers and knowledge
The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The
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You are waiting for a moment that is not coming. The rupture. The threshold. The date you can circle on a calendar when everything changes at once. Kurzweil promised it. The TED talks dramatised it. The science fiction films gave it a soundtrack. It did not happen that way. It never was going to. What
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I got a lot of responses to my last mail with the question: what if ancient wisdom is not just philosophy? What if it is a form of advanced technology?1,400 scenario prompt editionsThose are the questions you get when you publish #mindcandy for nearly four years. The pattern that surprised me most was the one
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In February 2023, I started publishing a daily scenario prompt. One signal. One question. Every day. Three and a half years later, the archive had taught me twelve lessons I did not expect. Most of what I predicted was wrong. That turned out to be the point. Here is what stuck. 1. No single signal
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If there is a 1% chance that AI will kill us, should we take that risk? “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI” is very clear about the answer: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
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In the second class of primary school, I did a presentation on Operation Blue Book. UFOs. Since then, UFOs have always been on my radar. That brings you into multi-dimensions, parallel universes, alternate realities, time travel, the paranormal, etc. Our limited spectrum The question is always at which frequency or spectrum we are operating. That
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I am a big fan of Barry O’Reilly. His “Unlearn” is a classic. That’s why I picked up “Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with Human and Machine Intelligence”. A must-read for leaders. Efficiency? According to McKinsey’s State of AI 20254, nearly 80% of organisations say efficiency is the primary objective of their
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I wrote a book about AI and have come to the conclusion that natural intelligence (in all its forms) is infinitely smarter than AI. A combination of both, natural intelligence augmented by AI, would be a perfect combination. Hence, “You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition” by Laura Huang. Intuition Intuition is a
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