by John Macdonald | May 20, 2023 | AI, The250
I suck at negotiation. Always have. Winning a negotiation is about gaining leverage. Gaining leverage is the art of knowing what the other side cares about. I suck at that art. Luckily, here come the hagglebots. Procurement departments rejoice! Bots with... by John Macdonald | May 19, 2023 | AI, The250
We can’t (yet) control the weather. Neither can AI. If the surf’s up, the powder is fresh, or the breeze is strong and steady, you gotta jump on it. Cancel your chores and grab your board. Neither we nor AI can control when the mood hits us just right. If... by John Macdonald | May 18, 2023 | AI, The250
AI should be the CEO of the Effective Altruism movement. In fact, it’s inevitable. Which is kinda ironic because the Effective Altruists are also “helping to create the field of AI alignment research.” Effective... by John Macdonald | May 17, 2023 | AI, The250
Time is everything. Time is the one resource that we can never recover. A wish for one more year, one more day, one more minute. Regrets of missed opportunities, wasted time, and wrong place at the wrong time. Chronos is time as you and I experience it.... by John Macdonald | May 16, 2023 | AI, The250
AI should do your work chores. You know the Eisenhower Matrix? Urgent versus important, etc. A method like this helps us because we tend to put off the hard stuff. The human stuff. We use excuses of urgency or money or whatever else we can grab onto to... by John Macdonald | May 15, 2023 | AI, The250
Faster, cheaper, better. I’ve been on the front lines of outsourcing almost my entire career. I’ve hired, led, and worked with off-shore software teams and contracting firms for over 20 years. I help my current company work and scale better through...