🗣 NEW PODCAST APPEARANCE: MAN OVERSEAS
This past week I was on the Man Overseas podcast. It was an open and honest conversation about the Internet, technology, living in South Africa, the beauty of writing, and much more. You can have a listen here.
ONE IDEA: DO THE WORK
The greatest skill is doing the work.
We don't need more time, money or planning. We simply need to do the work.
READING & RE-READING
‘The Road to Self-Renewal’ by John Gardner, 1994.
“Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life.”
This piece explains that learning never stops, regardless of your age or occupation. That strikes me as a beautiful way to live. As a 24-year-old, it provides direction. As a 54-year-old, I believe it’ll provide hope.
OpenAI released GPT-3: a text-generating neural network. It’s sent my mind racing and filled me with excitement about what we might achieve in the future. This video shows the system taking a complex non-disclosure agreement and explaining it in terms that a grade 2 can understand. Here’s a bunch of other examples.
While reading more about Open AI, I came across this post about Learning Day. Each Thursday is Learning Day: a day where employees have the option to self-study technical skills that will make them better at their job but which aren’t being learned from daily work. I absolutely love this.
It includes resources that employees are using. Deep learning, mathematics, statistics, history and management are covered, with links to each one. Enjoy.
Thoughts on GPT-3: It’s incredible, but I’m not getting too excited yet. It still has weaknesses and still makes errors. AI is going to change the world. GPT-3 is a glimpse of what’s to come, but there’s a long way to go.
QUESTION I’M ASKING MYSELF
“Is my planning or my execution letting me down?”
Catch you next Tuesday,