OpenAI & THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

off-topic alert This post was going in a different direction until last week’s OpenAI news. It was going to be a cute analogy where ChatGPT is the child prodigy, Sam Altman and the coders at OpenAI are the hockey parents expecting their kid to go [...]

By |2024-01-04T13:23:07-05:00December 1st, 2023|Business Start-up, News, People, Technology|Comments Off on OpenAI & THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

WHAT ELON MUSK DID & DIDN’T LEARN FROM PORSCHE

Genius is a curious phenomenon: It seems to be narrow in focus. As far as we know, no human has ever been a genius in all things. This means there are many distinct areas of genius. There are degrees of genius as measured by IQ [...]

By |2023-05-20T22:09:04-04:00May 19th, 2023|Business Start-up, People, Strategy, Technology|Comments Off on WHAT ELON MUSK DID & DIDN’T LEARN FROM PORSCHE

FAIL BETTER

There’s a great phrase often used by entrepreneurs, startup founders and those who consult for them: Fail Better. Like so many phrases in modern business lexicon, it is of curious origin (see sidebar). For the purpose of this discussion, let’s assume it means learn from [...]

By |2022-01-22T23:44:32-05:00September 28th, 2021|Business Start-up, Strategy, Technology|Comments Off on FAIL BETTER

JEFF BEZOS, THE REDUX

Almost two years ago, here, we posted CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING. Ironically, it has become the most popular post in Marketing Wilderness' 10-year history. Ironic because the main point of that post was that context is accidentally or intentionally left out of so much on the [...]

By |2020-03-04T19:56:52-05:00November 14th, 2019|Business Start-up, People, Strategy, Technology|Comments Off on JEFF BEZOS, THE REDUX

CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING

Context is everything, especially on social media. There has been a lot of social media interest in the image above, less the question mark, combined with headings and comments like: “Jeff Bezos in 1999. Next time you want to give up, think of this.” “Jeff [...]

By |2023-10-17T19:39:13-04:00January 17th, 2018|Business Start-up, People, Strategy, Technology|Comments Off on CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING
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