As I clean out my inbox, texts, social messages, I often ask myself the question, “Do they actually ever read what they are sending me? Do they care about how they are representing themselves? Are they establishing the impression they want?” Your inboxes probably look the same as mine. You are inundated with people who […] The post How You Sell To Me Shows How You Will Sell For Me… appeared first on Partners in EXCELLENCE.| Partners in EXCELLENCE
A colleague shared an observation from a CRO. The CRO had discovered the secret to his team’s competitive advantage. Drum roll…….. The secret to your competitive advantage has nothing to do with your products, your pricing, even your company and it’s reputation. The secret to your competitive advantage is “Mediocrity!” Not yours, but your competitors! […]| Partners in EXCELLENCE
Leadership is not about personal heroics or individual brilliance. Unfortunately, our ideas of leaders are often influenced by heroics or people who seize the spotlight. Or our understanding of leadership is tied to a title or position of authority. Real leadership has nothing to do with any of these things. Leadership is about stimulating the […]| Partners in EXCELLENCE
Numeric values are an integral to communication between people. What is the distribution of integer values in text/speech, and does the use of integer literals in source code have a similar distribution? The paper Numbers in Context: Cardinals, Ordinals, and Nominals in American English by Greg Woodin, and Bodo Winter studied the 9+ million numbers […]| The Shape of Code
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Figure 1 Placeholder. Notes on how to implement alignment in AI systems. This is necessarily a fuzzy concept, because Alignment is fuzzy and AI is fuzzy. We need to make peace with the frustrations of this fuzziness and move on. 1 Fine tuning to do nice stuff Think RLHF, Constitutional AI etc. I’m not greatly persuaded that these are the right way to go, but they are interesting. 2 Classifying models as unaligned I’m familiar only with mechanistic interpretability at the moment; I’m su...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Content warning: Stuff that I would prefer to have no opinion upon if that were an option. Culture wars. Figure 1 An interesting question in movement design is how much to embody the change you wish to see in the world in your pursuit of it. Examples If your movement advocates 8-hour workdays, should you work 8-hour days to build it? If you are relentlessly corporate in your pursuit of communism, will you have trouble recruiting cadre? Was it an acceptable trade-off for communism that the Bo...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
As an author, my writing goes through stages. Sometimes it’s a fragile flower, sometimes it’s an almost perfect final draft. And that means I need different feedback from co-authors and…| Research Degree Insiders
Driving Organizational Change Organizational Change “Working on change without believing in it is like waiting for the train on a station without tracks.” Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical leadership at New York Stern School of Business is the author of this striking metaphor. He thinks our brain is like an […] This post Riding the Elephant in the Room is published on Neurofied.| Neurofied
