Things That I Saved This Week | 062924

No. 1 - Daniel Negreanu On Going For The Win

Last weekend I fell down a poker strategy rabbit hole and thanks to the YouTube algorithm this week I found this ??.

Poker is a strong analogy for life and business. Daniel points out that counter-intuitively playing to win involves sub-optimal financial decisions.

"The though process for winning first place and trying to win the most amount of money are different, they're conflicting"

There is a big difference between having success and winning. As Daniel points out it typically has a lot to do with your circumstances. If you're accustomed to success or have nothing to lose, you're more likely to make the big, riskier calls that produce outsized returns. On the other hand, circumstances dictate that loss aversion might be the best outcome to shoot for.

How can you evaluate whether you are in a situation where you go for a win, or one where you'd be better off surviving for the next round?

No. 2 - LLM Performance Arms Race

This content was not created with AI. However, generative AI is integrated into our day to day workflow at Butterfly Effect and I am always looking for ways to embed it further until I am either the most productive person on the planet, or completely redundant whichever comes first ??.

Since April there have been around 6 major AI announcements, ranging from Apple Intelligence (coming soon) to the performance crown switching between Gemini, LLama 3, GPT 4o, and now landing on Claude 3.5 Sonnet. End users are benefiting from open sourced models, larger context windows, and cheaper costs per token.

The next step to making LLM's work better in an enterprise context is Retrieval Augmented Generation. By using external company data and content LLMs can accurately give answers inside of hallucinating. As well as improving the answer accuracy, answers are usually cited with a link to the relevant content that can further help to build trust in the tools.

No. 3 - Spaces Dashboard

X is back and arguably much better than it was during the Twitter days!

A lot of the Elon directed changes have improved the platform as a tool for building and monetizing community, and with the advertising boycott it is easy and cheap to experiment with their ads.

Attention on the platform is dramatically underpriced.

In that context, I've been looking at measurement tools for Spaces, and found Spaces Dashboard. Spaces Dashboard is the discovery guide for X Spaces and should be the starting point for anyone looking to find communities, Spaces, and influential creators.

The tool has a 24-hr, 7-day, and 30-day leaderboard which can be filtered by language. It is incredible to see creators drawing 1m+ listener audiences on a weekly and a monthly basis.

No. 4 - Reinvent yourself

After having President Trump appear as a guest (already their 2nd most viewed episode after Tucker Carlson.) The All-In besties celebrated passing 500k YouTube subscribers with a special live show.

During the live, Chamath answering a question about "how to get into bigger rooms" and generally advance your career shared the advice

"You should live 8/9 careers"

This is the philosophy I've adopted for my professional progress and reminds me of one of the most inspirational career stories I've read. Sue Black OBE went from being a homeless mother of three after leaving school at 16, to a PhD in software engineering, saving Bletchley Park, and founding Techmums a journey that started with a maths access course in night school whilst living in a women's refuge.

Keep learning, keep growing, and keep trying new things. Don't let other people, or the past define you.

No. 5 - Tapping into Emotions

This Inside Out inspired graphic is doing the rounds on X & TikTok. It serves as a good but somewhat flawed visualization of the interplay of different emotions.

This Inside Out inspired graphic is doing the rounds on X & TikTok. It serves as a good but somewhat flawed visualization of the interplay of different emotions.

The comments highlighted that the graphic works best if you interpret the outputs as a "leading" feeling from the X axis, combined with a "secondary" feeling from the Y axis.

The visualization of nostalgia recalls one of my favorite lines by Donald Draper in Mad Men

"Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone."

Somewhat surprisingly, Inside Out 2 is not only the best opening movie of 2024, surpassing Dune 2, but It is on track to be the fastest animated movie to gross $1b. A handy reminder to marketers and storytellers universally connective power of tapping into emotions.

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