Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into.
A bunch of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music.
So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into.
A bunch of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music.
So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into.
A bunch of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music.
So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
A theme I have been hearing from founders lately is training an AI to create a virtual advisor. There are various flavors of this idea but here are a few I've heard in the last week:
1/ Train a virtual board. Pick ten to twenty real people (alive or dead) and collect all of their public speaking, public writing, and all that has been written about them, train an AI on them, and then ask them questions you would ask your board.
2/ Train a virtual CMO. Pick a bunch of the top CMOs and collect all of their public speaking, public writing, and all that has been written about them, train an AI on them, and then use this as your CMO.
3/ Train a virtual CFO. Pick a bunch of the top CFOs and collect all of their public speaking, public writing, and all that has been written about them, train an AI on them, and then use this as your CFO.
I would imagine there are startups out there that are building tools to make this sort of thing easier to do. I have not personally talked to any of them, but I am sure they exist.
But in all of the cases that I heard, the founder used one or more of the popular large language models (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, etc)
If you don't have the advisors you need, this is one way to address that.
The Gotham Gal and I were born in 1961, at the tail end of the baby boom. Or so we thought.
In an excellent longish essay on GenX in T Magazine, Amanda Fortini writes:
The consensus, particularly among elder Gen X-ers .. is that the endpoints were mysteriously revised, but no one seems to know why or when or by whom .....many hold that the real Gen X range is 1961 to 1981 — beginning when fertility rates declined, soon after the Food and Drug Administration’s 1960 approval of the birth control pill..... Still, a 2017 Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies article placed Gen X at 1965 to 1984, recasting four years of millennials as Gen X-ers, in part because “using 20-year age spans for each generation” makes it “easier to compare them.” It also renders much generational theorizing meaningless.
While I largely agree that this generational theorizing can be pretty meaningless, it is fun. And so is Amanda's essay, particularly if you are GenX. My friend Pat called the essay, "my so called life". That cracked me up. If you were born between 1961 and 1984, you should read it. It will be at least a fun trip down memory lane, and maybe more, for you.
I likely am a baby boomer. If growing up in a Leave It To Beaver household is the measure, that was me and my family. And it was warm, safe, healthy, and happy. I believe I am a boomer because of that.
The Gotham Gal, on the other hand, grew up in the classic 70s household where the kids would come home to an empty house and had the run of the place. And everything else too. I believe she's GenX because of that.
Does any of this matter? I don't think it matters much. But there are cultural differences between children and their parents and charting them and understanding them can be helpful to marketers and anthropologists. And for the rest of us, it sure can be a lot of fun.
A theme I have been hearing from founders lately is training an AI to create a virtual advisor. There are various flavors of this idea but here are a few I've heard in the last week:
1/ Train a virtual board. Pick ten to twenty real people (alive or dead) and collect all of their public speaking, public writing, and all that has been written about them, train an AI on them, and then ask them questions you would ask your board.
2/ Train a virtual CMO. Pick a bunch of the top CMOs and collect all of their public speaking, public writing, and all that has been written about them, train an AI on them, and then use this as your CMO.
3/ Train a virtual CFO. Pick a bunch of the top CFOs and collect all of their public speaking, public writing, and all that has been written about them, train an AI on them, and then use this as your CFO.
I would imagine there are startups out there that are building tools to make this sort of thing easier to do. I have not personally talked to any of them, but I am sure they exist.
But in all of the cases that I heard, the founder used one or more of the popular large language models (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, etc)
If you don't have the advisors you need, this is one way to address that.
The Gotham Gal and I were born in 1961, at the tail end of the baby boom. Or so we thought.
In an excellent longish essay on GenX in T Magazine, Amanda Fortini writes:
The consensus, particularly among elder Gen X-ers .. is that the endpoints were mysteriously revised, but no one seems to know why or when or by whom .....many hold that the real Gen X range is 1961 to 1981 — beginning when fertility rates declined, soon after the Food and Drug Administration’s 1960 approval of the birth control pill..... Still, a 2017 Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies article placed Gen X at 1965 to 1984, recasting four years of millennials as Gen X-ers, in part because “using 20-year age spans for each generation” makes it “easier to compare them.” It also renders much generational theorizing meaningless.
While I largely agree that this generational theorizing can be pretty meaningless, it is fun. And so is Amanda's essay, particularly if you are GenX. My friend Pat called the essay, "my so called life". That cracked me up. If you were born between 1961 and 1984, you should read it. It will be at least a fun trip down memory lane, and maybe more, for you.
I likely am a baby boomer. If growing up in a Leave It To Beaver household is the measure, that was me and my family. And it was warm, safe, healthy, and happy. I believe I am a boomer because of that.
The Gotham Gal, on the other hand, grew up in the classic 70s household where the kids would come home to an empty house and had the run of the place. And everything else too. I believe she's GenX because of that.
Does any of this matter? I don't think it matters much. But there are cultural differences between children and their parents and charting them and understanding them can be helpful to marketers and anthropologists. And for the rest of us, it sure can be a lot of fun.
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