Dad. Entrepreneur. CEO of GoLizzy. Curious about what’s next. Happiest in fresh snow.
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I work with AI almost every day, and I still struggle to keep up.
I run Lizzy and am involved in several other businesses, which gives me the opportunity to work with people across different industries and at every level of an organization. Lately, I'm seeing the same anxiety almost everywhere, and I'm feeling it myself.
The technology is changing faster than we can comfortably absorb it. Just as we begin to understand a new capability and figure out how to use it, something else changes.
Now imagine trying to navigate this inside a company with thousands of employees.
Most large companies are built around planning, budgets, approval processes, and managing risk. For good reasons. But they were never designed to change and adapt at this pace.
Leaders know they need to act but worry that decisions made today could be outdated in a few months. Meanwhile, employees are experimenting and discovering ways to do their jobs better, often moving faster than their employers.
This creates real cultural friction. Some employees get frustrated and discouraged. Others go rogue, using AI outside approved company systems and creating new risks.
I have a lot of empathy for both sides. I'm wrestling with many of these same questions in my own businesses.
I wonder if one of our greatest challenges will be learning how to adapt to a pace of change that we may never fully catch up with.
I'm curious what others are experiencing, personally or inside their companies. What have you found that helps?
Nailed it
It’s almost incomprehensible how wide the distance is between someone who’s working at the frontier with AI and basically everyone else right now.
The crazy thing is these lines are not converging, but only growing farther apart. If the curve of AI progress had leveled off, it would certainly have given most people and companies time to catch up or implement their workflows in a standardized way. The technology would have neutralized competitive advantage because everyone would be using it the same way.
But what’s happened is the opposite. The curve of AI progress is basically going vertical right now, which means if you had codified your processes 3-6 months ago you’re likely already behind again. Now imagine most companies that kicked into gear a year ago and thought that they were done. Even further behind now.
I’ve never seen a technology in my life and career that improves at this rate, which consequently means you need to upgrade your expectations at a similar rate. Our brains weren’t wired for this, and our organizational change management processes certainly weren’t either.
With any form of recursive self improvement, things just get wilder. It’s a time when you will need to be constantly reevaluating the things that didn’t work just a couple months ago to see if they now can be solved. AI native companies certainly have a strong advantage due to this right now, so now it comes down to can the bigger companies keep up. Wild times.
Nailed it!
At some point, baseball has to get back to valuing ballplayers and not just numbers on a screen. Give me the Freddie Freemans, the Buster Poseys, Hunter Pences, Pablo Sandovals, Michael Youngs, Ian Kinslers of the world. Guys who just flat out know how to play the game. Everyone wants to talk launch angle and exit velo, but what happened to valuing a quality at bat?” The 9-pitch battle that might end in an out, but forces a pitcher to show everything he’s got.
The guy who hits behind the runner, takes what’s given, or just refuses to give a pitcher an easy inning. Those at-bats might not look sexy in the box score, but they show up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Some of these dudes could absolutely leave the yard too. That’s the point. They weren’t one-dimensional. Somewhere along the way, we confused measurable tools with knowing how to win baseball games.
I’m not against analytics or hitting the ball hard, but there is an art to winning that you can’t fully measure. We need more guys who know how to play baseball, not just hitters, not just athletes, ballplayers. And I promise you, those dudes never go out of style
Awesome sportsmanship, well played!
The famous incident from the 2003 Carlsberg Cup, where Danish midfielder Morten Wieghorst intentionally missed a penalty against Iran.
The referee had awarded the penalty because an Iranian defender caught the ball with his hands inside the box, mistakenly thinking he had heard the half-time whistle.Since the penalty was awarded due to a misunderstanding, Wieghorst consulted his coach and deliberately fired his shot wide as a display of sportsmanship, an act for which he later won an Olympic Committee Fair Play Award.
Football is great
Another reason why Kruk & Kiper (and Miller & Flemming) are the best in the business. Well played boys @SFGiants
We need more Johnnys in this world. Focusing on the customer = winning
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BREAKING: Jeep debuts the best commercial of Super Bowl 59.
They dropped $32 million on this ad—and they’re about to get their money’s worth and then some.
Starring Harrison Ford and the American flag, the ad featured several patriotic statements, including:
“Freedom is for everybody. But it isn’t free. It’s earned.”
“There are real heroes in the world, but not the ones in the movies. Real heroes are humble, and they’re not driven by pride.”
“The most sacred thing in life isn’t the path. It’s the freedom to choose it.”