? Hackers ? Meetings ? F-Word ? Swirls ? Multiply ?

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Five posts that touched a nerve this week.

The Friday Five

Essential Questions, Radical Transparency, Open Source

We need to show how good we are at building out AI so that it can serve mankind, it can solve medical problems, it can solve many essential problems that society will need to have solved very soon - Marten Mickos

Marten Mickos has been navigating Silicon Valley innovation waves for a quarter century and counting, first on the eastern edge of the Atlantic, then into the valley. Web 1, Web 2, OpenSource, Hybrid Cloud, the list is long, including notable stops at MySQL (acquired by Sun), Eucalyptus (acquired by HP), and his current extended run at the helm of HackerOne.

Please join me in welcoming Marten to Turn the Lens.

Marten Mickos: Curiosity, Learning, Hackers, Transparency | Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebadNBLiDAw&list=PLZURvMqWbYjk4hbmcR46tNDdXQlrVZgEn&ab_channel=TurntheLenswithJeffFrick - Spotify - https://lnkd.in/da_My5ke - Transcript and show notes - https://lnkd.in/deFDUqA5 - or wherever you podcast

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Meetings - A different, more effective way

And I do think that your day should be full of meetings in a way like up to 50%. But in those meetings, you're not talking about work. You're doing work together. Right. And that is a very different way of doing things right and a more effective way of doing things. - Annie Dean

If organizations spent half the time on making meetings better (starting by canceling most of them) as they do on tracking days of the week, their PRODUCTIVITY would SOAR, starting the very first day a recurring meeting was canceled to free up time to WORK.

Full-Length Interview

The Future of Work Doesn't Care Where You Work, SXSW 2024 with special guest Annie Dean, Atlassian . Hosted by Jane Thier , Fortune . Click Here

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The 'F' Word - Feel

I think the role of leadership is to find fertile ground to plant a seed, to nurture a seed, to grow a forest. I can't guarantee everything. But I feel pretty confident that I have found fertile ground, give me time to invest in this ground to plant the seed, to nurture it, to grow the forest. Some of it will grow into giant forests, others won't, and we'll learn from that, but make the job finding fertile ground. - Dominic Price

Certain types of people are looking for step function change, new markets, and undiscovered vistas. Others just keep slicing at that bone.A small portion of a fun conversation with an actual work Futurist. He's not looking at x improvement over y in z, He's looking to grow new forests.

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Time to Lead - Bill Schmarzo

Michael Jordan may been the greatest basketball player of all time, but, John Paxson and Steve Kerr took winning shots in Championship games to win because it was their time to lead - Bill Schmarzo

Organizational Improv, like a Jazz band. Or Meg Bear calls them Dynamic Teams, like the A-Team, formed around a specific objective. The future of work is an improvement. Get ready for your time to lead.

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BigCos, Startups, and Innovation

By sharing and combining that knowledge among these four people, we found we could be much more effective for our employers and our companies- Derek Kerton

The Cleantech Council origin story, which is predated by the Autotech Council origin story (where I first met Derek), which is predated by the Telecom Council origin story. We get to the bottom of it.

A force multiplier aggregates community around shared interest then sets up structured, intentional information sharing.

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March Madness BONUS - I asked ChatGPT to complete my ESPN Brackets

Asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to complete my brackets. Short Story:

Women's Final Four, South Carolina v Stanford, Iowa v UConn, Iowa over South Carolina for the Championship

Men's Final Four, UConn v North Carolina, Houston v Purdue, Houston over UConn for the Championship

A longer post coming shortly (with prompts, and detailed responses)

I'll update you with each round of hoops.

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