What I learned at work this year
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What I learned at work this year
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#2"[Warren Buffett] says his measure of success is, “Do the people you care about love you back?” I think that is about as good a metric as you will find."
I love this.
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#3> [...] we are also going to be focusing more on improving the quality of life. I think this will be the thrust of many big breakthroughs of the future. For example, software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better, and help you use your time more efficiently.
Seems like a retrofitted use case that is more of an answer to the question "What could technology do next?" rather than the question "How to improve quality of life?"
If one started with the latter question---which is what is worth answering---a significant component of the answer would be to strengthen relationships and make them more authentic. Since the medium undeniably biases the message, it is important to prevent the disintermediation of relationships by corporations looking to insert themselves (or their technology) into positions from where they can better extract rent.
Technology can of course be useful in numerous ways, but the right solutions would put human emotions and relationships front and center, and sparingly sprinkle technical solutions only when needed -- and in many ways force people to interact more directly, even if it were temporarily (somewhat) inconvenient.
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#4"[Warren Buffett] says his measure of success is, “Do the people you care about love you back?” I think that is about as good a metric as you will find." I love this.
It's one of the few things you can't buy. Good goal for an ambitious billionaire.
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#5"[Warren Buffett] says his measure of success is, “Do the people you care about love you back?” I think that is about as good a metric as you will find." I love this.
The problem is that Warren Buffet doesn't care, as in love which is what he's implying, about 99.99% of the population. If he gives a large portion of the population diabetes (BerkshireHathaway own CocaCola stock) and uses the profits to buy his family aeroplanes, by this definition he is a success.
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#6> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down
Facebook-controlled depression, what a dream
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#7> [...] we are also going to be focusing more on improving the quality of life. I think this will be the thrust of many big breakthroughs of the future. For example, software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better, and help you use your time more efficiently. Seems like a retrofitted use case that is more of an answer t…
Has Bill ever been good at predictions? No mention of smartphones or social media in The Road Ahead. Blindsided by how quickly the Internet developed, underestimated "bazaar" economies that enabled millions of people building both software and content. All the smart home stuff he was in love with has gone hardly anywhere.
I think he's very smart and great at setting huge goals then hitting them, but I'm not sure he's a great prognosticator.
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#8> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down Facebook-controlled depression, what a dream
Depressed people are likely to shop to alleviate their depression symptoms temporarily, too.
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#9> [...] we are also going to be focusing more on improving the quality of life. I think this will be the thrust of many big breakthroughs of the future. For example, software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better, and help you use your time more efficiently. Seems like a retrofitted use case that is more of an answer t…
Has Bill ever been good at predictions? No mention of smartphones or social media in The Road Ahead. Blindsided by how quickly the Internet developed, underestimated "bazaar" economies that enabled millions of people building both software and content. All the smart home stuff he was in love with has gone hardly anywhere. I think he's very smart and great at setting huge goals then hitting them, but I'm not sure he's…
His most famous prediction was one he helped make true.
Microsoft's original mission statement was "A computer on every desk and in every home"
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#10> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down Facebook-controlled depression, what a dream
It's an article about the future, so we don't need to bring up Facebook.