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  • “How to Decide” (Book Review)

    “How to Decide” (Book Review)

    The number of decisions that we make – professionally and personally – won’t get any less any time soon. Yes, there will be AI based decision making, but expect us humans to continue making many decisions for the foreseeable future. I’ve written about decision making before (see here and here), and I’m always keen to…

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  • Tome (Product Review)

    Tome (Product Review)

    My summary of Tome before using it – I recently heard Reid Hoffman talk on a podcast about his investment in Tome, a company that helps people create professional presentations. How does Tome explain itself in the first minute? “Make deals, not decks” is the main line on the Tome website, explaining how “Tome is…

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  • What I learned from ChatGPT-40’s launch event

    What I learned from ChatGPT-40’s launch event

    ChatGPT-4o is here. The “o” stands for omni, hinting at the combination of text, audio, video and image outputs that the latest version of ChatGPT offers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that GPT-4o is “natively multimodal” with its native combination of voice, text and vision. At the launch livestream of GPT-4o earlier this…

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  • “Build” (Book Review)

    “Build” (Book Review)

    Tony Fadell is probably one of the most successful and well known product people alive. Fadell led the teams that built the iPod, the iPhone and was the CEO of Nest, the popular thermostat which was later on acquired by Google. In “Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making” Fadell reflects on his…

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  • ElevenLabs (Product Review)

    ElevenLabs (Product Review)

    My summary of Eleven Labs before using it – ElevenLabs turns text into voice. How does ElevenLabs explain itself in the first minute? On its website ElevenLabs explains that its users can create natural AI voices instantly in any language. How does ElevenLabs work? I select a language – English – and sample text is…

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  • “The Crux” (Book Review)

    “The Crux” (Book Review)

    “Good Strategy. Bad Strategy” is one of my favourite books on strategy and one that I often refer back to. In “Good Strategy. Bad Strategy”, corporate strategy expert Richard Rumelt writes about the ‘kernel’ of a good strategy. This kernel has three elements: (1) a diagnosis of the main challenge or problem, (2) a guiding…

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