#24 The "Edge"

The AI mania has begun. Chat GPT is spinning up business plans, writing copy, making websites, teaching code, and writing code. And I think it's awesome. Many are frightened that AI will learn how to do what they do faster, cheaper, and maybe even better. That may be true... if you're moderat...

Force Multiplier #7

Chat GPT-4 just came out and the FOMO has grown exponentially. Everyone is trying to figure out how they can make money with AI and/or how AI make take money out of their pockets by replacing them. I get it. But I don't share that perspective. True to the operating system underpinning The Guar...

Opinion: SVB and The Adaptive Dilemma

I do not typically write opinion pieces like this, but it's worth taking the time, methinks The largest banking collapse since 2008 happened last week. Obviously, the damage is great and the fallout is still unknown. We will be talking about it from a fundamental perspective next week on "(Un)E...

#22 (Un)Exploitable

exploit verb make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource). People get really bent out of shape about pretty much everything these days. One of the things that really trigger people is precision in language. Specificity is intimidating to the monkey mind because the monkey mind wants ...

#21 Parallel v Waterfall

This will become a much longer article when I have the time to put it together properly. How To Distribute Your Resources: Waterfall vs Parallel distribution Training for The Guardian Academy . You can wait until the article is done, which will be complete sometime between the next 3 and 45 da...

#20 More Than You Are

"Live to learn, Give to Earn" My favorite part of the companies and programs we are running right now is the shift from creating good “customers” to empowering extraordinary creators.  The become a Guardian of the Guardian Academy, one must submit a capstone that the community votes on. If it is ...

Force Multipliers #5

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. - Dean Ornish One of the most powerful tools in our arsenal is what I call "The Science Of Hindsight" . The past does not predict the future, but it sure can tell us a lo...

#19 Can't Save Everybody

When I got into hostage negotiation I thought to myself I was going to save everyone. What I learned quickly is that you cannot save everybody, you can only save those that want to be saved. - Chris Voss Chris Voss is one of the best hostage negotiators that has ever lived. His book "Never Split...

#18 Asymmetry

“If you have a 10% chance of a 100x return, you should take that bet every time even if it’s going to feel bad 9 out of 10 times.” - Jeff Bezos One of the best investors I know, personally, is named Tim. Tim and I used to share an office in California. One day, it came up that he had over 40 K1...

#17 Counterintuitive

It doesn't take long for a newborn child to learn how gravity works. Long before they can form words to articulate it, they develop a sense that they're not going float away and if they drop a toy, it'll fall to the ground. All is well in baby world. That is, until, they see their first helium ...