Tag: essay
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PKM changes with age
Personal Knowledge Management changes when you age. That’s my feeling now. My ‘documents’ folder sums more than 100,000 documents on a wide variety of topics. My Evernote account has more than 4,000 notes. The majority of them are clippings from the web. Articles, blog posts, photos, memes etc. Fifteen or maybe eighteen years ago when…
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Do Unforgettable Work
Some thoughts deserve to be forever available online. This one from Taylor Town is a true gem. On 20230727 https://taylor.town/do-unforgettable-work ### Do unforgettable work. This is not hyperbole. At minimum, customers must think you are superhuman. Respond instantly. Finish work quickly. Check in frequently. Proactively prevent problems. Deliver stellar quality. Exceed expectations in every possible…
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You are not a magician, you are an entertainer
People are very creative now when describing themselves in the ‘About’ section of their LinkedIn profile pages. Are we really capable of describing ourselves accurately? How good are we in the task of evaluating ourselves and describing difficult aspects of us like ‘competencies’? No, not a magician. Maybe you are in the business of making…
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ChatGPT is an Alchemist
I’m 50% through The Alchemist right now. The last time I read it was more than 20 years ago. One of the discussions between the young traveller and the English man was about the fact that gold would start losing its value if alchemy turned to be simple. It was a hard practice to understand.…
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The Ultimate Full-Stack Developer
He/she is a full-code full-stack developer who now works in no-code development. He/she can deliver a fully functional production ready MVP in 4 days, not 4 months. He/she can organize the development workflow for the stakeholder group so its members can better participate in the project, especially when it is not a technical group. He/she…
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GPT Wars
People are using ChatGPT to automate the publication of comments and replies to Twitter posts. So far, only a handful of smart tech-savvy early-adopters was able to build that mechanism. On the other side of the street is the rest of us still typing things out of our own heads. Once we all have GPT…
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Analog Transformation
At the moment I am writing this there are dozens of new discussions on A.I. that I am not part of. I am away from those discussions but, at the same time, I know very well what is at their core: disruption, change, transformation etc. Artificial Intelligence is synonymous to radical digital transformation. Fair enough.…
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What Dune Chronicles Mean to Me
300 days of reading. 8 books. More than 4 thousand pages. And I’m here to write something about what Dune meant to me. It was a life changing experience. I feel like one of those people who had climbed the Mt. Everest or ran a marathon, or had finished a doctorate program. I have witnessed…