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AI Miscellany 5: AI and the Nature of the Enterprise

Original link: https://pt.plus/notes-on-ai-5/ The advent of AI is triggering a paradigm shift in the way businesses operate, compete and prosper. From dynamic pricing models in retail and automated robots in manufacturing, to predictive maintenance in aviation and robo-advisors in finance, the ubiquity of AI represents a profound shift in the landscape across industries. However, its …

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08.20.23: Local Maximum

Original link: https://pt.plus/08-20-23-local-maximum/ This week’s topic is Local Maximum. The topic comes from Eugene Wei and Ben Thompson’s long conversation An Interview with Eugene Wei About Twitter, Threads, and Taylor Swift . This conversation is really long, and I only read the parts of Twitter/X and Threads that are more interesting. Among them, Wei said: …

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08.13.23: Inner Coach

Original link: https://pt.plus/08-13-23-inner-coach/ This week’s topic is Inner Coach. It comes from a short article by Scott Belsky: I’ll often whisper to myself towards the end of a hard run, “Come on, give me another sprint…another mile, you can rest later.” This “inner coach” voice has developed over recent years. It celebrates a good run …

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08.06.23: Real Work

Original link: https://pt.plus/08-06-23-real-work/ The theme of this issue is Real Work. The opposite of Real Work is Fake Work, false work. It happens all around us: we see people running around, but not really producing anything. They are often moved by themselves, and they also hope that we will be moved with them. No amount …

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Work, Organization and Talent

Original link: https://pt.plus/jobs-orgs-talents/ I recently re-read “Competing Against Luck” (Chinese name: Competing with Luck), and realized that the second half of the book is a little weak. In Section 3: The Jobs to Be Done Organization, I expected to read something about how to design an organization around Jobs to Be Done, but in fact, …

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07.23.2023: Unfiltered Context

Original link: https://pt.plus/07-23-2023/ This week’s topic is Unfiltered Context Unfiltered Context. This quote comes from Competing Against Luck: …an entrepreneur found himself in a circumstance with no clear solution and declared, “I’m going to fix this!” In a sense, he began both as the CEO and a target customer—there was no separation between the innovator …

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07.09.2023: Outsourced Uncertainty

Original link: https://pt.plus/07-09-2023-outsourced-uncertainty/ This week’s topic is Outsourced Uncertainty. written in front Some recent writing has led to a new wave of subscriber growth, which gave me a nice positive feedback. Every Saturday morning, I will sit in front of the computer with more anticipation and sort out my thoughts during the week. This weekly …

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07/02/2023: (Con)Sequence

Original link: https://pt.plus/07-02-2023-con-sequence/ This week’s topic is (Con)Sequence sequence (cause and effect). The ” Void Moat ” released last week has received a lot of feedback from readers. This post is an incomplete summary of a lot of reading and thinking lately. It is more like reviewing what happened in the past from the perspective …

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moat of nothingness

Original link: https://pt.plus/a-void-moat/ Moat can be said to be a Holy Grail level vocabulary for corporate strategy. No matter how many textbook definitions it has, it describes nothing more than a defensive value. If a company is lucky enough to stumble over from the start-up stage, at least it means that it has a few …

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06/11/23: Vision

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06/04/2023: Biology

Original link: https://pt.plus/06-04-2023-biology/ This week’s topic is Biology. In fact, ecology is an overused metaphor: we use it to describe everything that we feel is huge and chaotic. There are often different components in it, they are entangled with each other, and perhaps some chemical reactions will occur; when it collapses, we often don’t know …

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long, distant

Original link: https://pt.plus/slow-and-remote/ After finishing “The Long Season”, I sang softly with the song “Looking Back” at the end. The verse that is mentioned repeatedly in the play appears in the center of the screen: snap your fingers, he said Let’s snap our fingers distant things will be shattered The people in front of me …

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