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Wolves are better problem-solvers than dogs. Dogs are better coworkers. That difference matters for AI agents.
Early in my career, I trained and operated dogs from life saving rescue to counter-terror tasks. Embedding dogs into operational units that had no prior experience working with dogs, gave me a practical understanding of what it actually takes to integrate nonhuman intelligence into human organizations.Now that AI agents are taking their first steps into…
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5 lessons on entrepreneurship that I learned while skateboarding
When I tell people that I still skateboard regularly, they are often surprised as tech geeks and hard-core skaters are groups that don’t usually overlap. It’s been my passion since childhood and by skating I don’t mean nice, clean cruising on a longboard but rather street spots, skateparks, tricks, falls and getting kicked out of…
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The reason for your zombie performance when you are jetlagged
I know a lot of folks who are sure that functioning without sleeping is just a matter of endurance. As anyone trying to have a meaningful conversation with those folks would know, that is not the case and their mental performance is noticeably reduced (the eyes are open but the response is not there..). I…
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Our brains are getting smaller as we become more domesticated
A common cultural belief is that future generations will have gigantic heads to carry their ever expanding brains. The opposite seems to be true. An NPR story http://goo.gl/0l2GM covers the fact that human brains have actually been shrinking for the past 20-30 million years and our brain tod ay is a tennis ball size smaller…
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Motivation – new research shows desired objects seem closer in our mind
We tend to perceive vision as the ultimate truth (“I’ll believe it when i see it..”), the reality is quite different and has tremendous impact on those trying to attain far-reaching goals. A recent study shows that our perception of something as simple as distance to an object is affected by how desirable we find…
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Presentation & demo tips – Part 3 – The Show Must Go On
Do not let technology get in the way the presentation. For the life of me, i am continuously amazed as to how many precious minutes are wasted before and in the middle of presentations because of technical challenges. Laptop is not booting, projector is not working, projector is not syncing with laptop (extra points for…
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Presentation& demo tips – part 2- Warming up
The Opening – between ice and cheese The presentation does not start at slide #1 and end at the 20th slide. People often miss on a great opportunity by playing with the projector/laptop/screen/lights in the room instead of using the time before the presentation to talk to those who already in the room/ on the…
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Tips for better presentations/demos – Part 1 – Why are we here again?
Talk about presentations these days and pretty fast the conversation is bound to get to the power point complaining phase. To me this shows a problem in the way people think about presentations and meetings in general, we focus on the means and not on the goals. Power Point is one of many means to…
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What’s in a name? a lot of meaning to start with
The act of choosing a name, be it for a new baby or for a company, has taken quite a cultural shift since the early days of history. Back in the bible days, every name had a literal meaning which had also had significance in the biblical story. Even today, those who follow the mystical…
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It’s not the idea, it’s you (or them) that’s the problem
Young entrepreneurs often confuse investment with validation. This leads to a lot of frustration towards investors passing on what seems like the most promising opportunities (especially if the opportunity is yours..). From the investor’s perspective though, investment is an elimination game, there are a lot of good (and some bad) opportunities at any given point.…
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