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by eries 4mo ago
All we have to do is apply this same parable to the "engineering" of organizations, and you'll be on the right track.
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by eries 4mo ago
Vanity metrics strike again. Danger, Will Robinson!
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by eries 4mo ago
You're going to find this hard to believe, but actually, mission-driven companies tend to outperform their conventional counterparts. The problem is that financial gravity tends to destroy them before they can become bona fide competit
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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, I use AI quite a lot, and I worry a lot about the effect that technology is having on me. Luckily, I have the advantage of using a tool called Solve It from the company I helped found called Answer.ai with Jeremy Howard that is explici
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by eries 4mo ago
Thank you and thank you!
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by eries 4mo ago
100% the same. Some people see this as the darkness at the heart of the for-profit sector metastasizing and affecting the other sectors. I think that's a reasonable first approximation of what's going on. But in the book, I tried
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by eries 4mo ago
Then I'm going to call this a marketing success story. In all seriousness, Thank you.
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by eries 4mo ago
I don't remember the exact number, but I read somewhere that when Jack Dorsey announced a 40% layoff and claimed it was being caused by AI, his personal net worth went up something like $2 billion. When we outsource judgment to what &q
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by eries 4mo ago
I am confident that if you read the book to the end, you will not only know the answer to this question, you will even know what we can do about it.
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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, I'd be happy to help you. Just drop me an email, and I can connect you to a variety of resources that might be stage appropriate for you.
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by eries 4mo ago
I would say that learning is still the biggest bottleneck and the one thing that can never be outsourced.
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by eries 4mo ago
You need to learn the parable of picking up dimes in front of the steam roller, which I think originally is attributed to Jean-Louis Gasset, the founder of BOS. The idea is that in a genuine platform war (which in the tech industry we haven
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by eries 4mo ago
Don't think you need anything like polygon or tokens for this. I think you just have to have the courage to ask investors to play the proper role within the governance of your company and, frankly, have the business results such that t
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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, that's right. But I also think that business can be the catalyst for getting us out of this mess too, because ultimately, mission-driven companies are a source of tremendous and surprising power.
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by eries 4mo ago
Most? I don't think that can quite be right. But I do think the stuff I'm writing about has held up pretty well through many, many cycles of boom and bust. In fact, Steve Blank has a great new essay out about the coming crash and
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by eries 4mo ago
Honestly, there hasn't been that much pushback, and I've done something like 200 interviews for the book. I think it might have to do with the fact that we all secretly kind of agree with this thesis, even though we know we'r
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by eries 4mo ago
An entrepreneur I used to admire a great deal was once described to me this way: "So and so doesn't do what's right. He makes whatever he does right." Ever since I heard that phrase, I haven't been able to unsee it
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by eries 4mo ago
I don't have the link in front of me, but someone who used to work at Spotify wrote a really nice reflection about this change through the lens of incorruptible over on LinkedIn. If someone can find it and post it here, that'd be
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by eries 4mo ago
Thank you and good luck!
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by eries 4mo ago
Well, there is a reason that I left after all. What's funny is that, although IMVU is today mostly famous because it appears in "The Lean Startup," many of the people who were there at the time were quite annoyed with me and
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by eries 4mo ago
I'd encourage you to study the story of Tony's Chocolonely. I included a version of that story in chapter 12 of the new book. Tony's make some of the most delicious chocolate in the world, but their mission is actually to era
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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, I do think this is something that LLMs should be very good at. As I've said in a couple of the comments in the thread, summarizing is LLMs' greatest superpower. But I have a whole chapter in the book about the use of metrics
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by eries 4mo ago
You've framed this question as if these things are separate phenomena, but from my point of view, they are all symptoms of the same underlying cause. The sad truth is that, as I say in the book, "It's always too early until i
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by eries 4mo ago
I want to appreciate you for this comment, even though I disagree with it, because this is a really articulate version of the conventional wisdom that I think all of us have imbibed since before we could talk.
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by eries 4mo ago
Your comment is very astute. A structure is like a shell. It can only protect what is within. It does not cause what's within to be vital, healthy, or unhealthy. But if you think that the courage that Dario has regularly shown would be
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by eries 4mo ago
Luckily, many of us publish in many places other than Amazon, and in fact the best way to support any author is to buy the book from your local independent bookstore. In fact, if you want to do me a big favor, you'll call your local in
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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, it's called today's governance "best practices." Many of them are actually quite value-destroying, and founders should run for the hills every time they hear that phrase.
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by eries 4mo ago
I expect many of these so-called AI-only companies will actually involve quite a few humans. I think the general idea that AI could be really useful at helping an organization stay true to the mission or purpose in its charter is quite righ
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by eries 4mo ago
There's a whole chapter on this question in the new book, so I won't try to summarize it here, but just encourage you to check it out.
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by eries 4mo ago
I wrote a whole book about it :)

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