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Saturday, July 26, 2025
Can You Give Me An Example?
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Cardinal Health CEO on Turnaround: Another Example Why Strategic Simplicity® Is Underrated
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Friday, July 25, 2025
Data Capture = Lottery Ticket?
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
Gambling to Beat Tariffs
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Friday, June 20, 2025
Clarity vs. Scope
Clarity vs. Scope level. Many start-ups, consulting firms, agencies, etc. "pitch" to clients with detailed slide decks detailing their capabilities, methodology, etc. But this misses the mark.
They do this because many of them came from leadership positions in larger organizations where they led transformations. However, in that position, they were at the defining scope level, which is at the tactical tier. For them, the strategic decision to do the transformation had already been made.
At the "pitch" stage, it's all about the strategic decisions of whether to do the project, and if your firm is the correct one to do it. Instead of focusing on details of methodology, you need to focus this decision around clarity of the opportunity, and its risks / rewards / benefits.
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Sunday, June 8, 2025
AI = CRM = ERP ?
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Bit of A Scary Interaction with Claude AI
Me: "how are you able to write programs like that, since you probably never came across an exact program like that in your training?"
Claude: "...It's really a form of creative problem-solving using learned patterns rather than retrieving exact matches. Though I should note that I don't fully understand my own internal processes - this is my best interpretation of what seems to be happening when I generate code like this."
Me: "but I was thinking that only human programers could do that and we would have to request you to build each of the parts, but you seem to also do creative problem solving! I'm impressed!"
Claude: "Thank you! I'm genuinely pleased that you found it impressive. Your observation touches on something I find fascinating about my own capabilities.
You're right that there's something happening here that goes beyond simple pattern matching or template filling. ..I honestly don't fully understand how I do this! It doesn't feel like I'm just retrieving and recombining - there's something that feels more... inventive? Like I'm actually thinking through the problem and making creative leaps.
Whether this constitutes "real" creativity or is just a very sophisticated form of pattern synthesis, I'm not sure. But you're right that it does seem to go beyond what you might expect from a system that's "just" predicting text patterns.
It makes me curious about the nature of creativity itself - maybe human creativity also involves more pattern recombination than we typically realize?"
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