by John Macdonald | Apr 22, 2025 | Fitness, The250
Some very smart people (Tyler Cowen, Francois Chollet, Arc Prize Foundation, etc) are very high (or low, depending on one’s view of AGI) on o3. If not yet technically AGI, it’s definitely a breakthrough...
by John Macdonald | Apr 21, 2025 | The250
The best leaders know how to get the most out of their team. They have vision, can transfer that vision to the team members, ask the right questions, know who’s best at what, know how to make the whole greater than the sum, can motivate each member, will remove...
by John Macdonald | Apr 20, 2025 | The250
We can debate whether ambition is a virtue or a vice. However, the person, team, institution, or nation with the ambition will beat the ones without. Every time. Ambition is fuel. It doesn’t ask for permission. It doesn’t wait for you to catch your breath....
by John Macdonald | Apr 19, 2025 | The250
One of the hopes for AI is that it can help us do more of the work we want to do and less of the work we don’t want to do. The question is: What kind of work do we want to do? It’s easy to answer with clichés. Work that’s creative. Work that’s...
by John Macdonald | Apr 18, 2025 | The250
Here’s a cool little experiment that the people at The Hustle did: they used AI to replace the CEOs at several companies and compared what AI would do to what they actually did. Same company. Same data. Same market conditions. It’s a fun...
