David Alade

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[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

The point that a lot of people miss about online conversations:

Conversations here do not aim to ENACT a new way of living. It's just different people coughing out their idiosyncrasies.

And you will do well to ask questions that unearth their biases than attacking anyone.

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

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[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

Constraint is freedom.

Until you realise that, constraint looks like a prison.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

It may feel that way, but it is not so and a working country wouldn’t eliminate the human’s appetite for something beyond.

In the thread below, you have some notes that The Economist published about megachurches in the US. I suppose that the US falls into the category of a working country.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

The Economist published an article on December 26th, Boxing Day, that is quite a depressing read for the Church.

First an important statistics:
Today, although most churches have fewer than 100 members, 70% of people attend the largest 10%.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

What will AI spare? Nothing, I guess.

[Bloomberg @business]

Toilet maker Toto is capitalizing on an unexpected surge in demand from chip gear makers seeking its expertise in soil-resistant ceramics https://t.co/3B2Fu7kNqp

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

@Lord__Dexter Your understanding is fine.

And to be clear, He demands perfection, just has he demands holiness, good works, etc. How these are achieved is a different conversation, one that I believe you are pointing at.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

To receive, in the end, what I term the purpose of it all: a total acceptance from He who knows all things; a well done from He who tries my work with fire; a commendation from He who demands complete perfection; and a note of gratitude from He who owns all things.

For the opposite of this is dreadful: it is a vanishing from the presence of He who is everywhere; to be forgotten by He who knows all things; and to be cast away from beholding the eternal glory of He who is eternal.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

[Shreya Shankar @sh_reya]

It is great that the frontier labs want to support data analytics workflows. It is the #1 thing many enterprises want now. But enterprise data is difficult. Turns out most models are bad at it! They’re ok at writing single SQL queries or Python scripts, thanks to the plethora of text to SQL and data science benchmarks, but they struggle to query, clean, and make sense of data from multiple database systems (relational and non relational).

Fortunately, we released a new benchmark to help, the Data Agent Benchmark, with plans to get it into a super well-known benchmark very soon :-) stay tuned!

https://t.co/xZFcz6mUle

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

@Lord__Dexter Hi, I don’t see that we are saying anything different here. Thank you.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

Solomon spent a lifetime wrestling with this question, a few things became clear to him, satisfying all the desires of the eyes and sapping every marrow of pleasure from it all doesn’t satisfy. In the end, he faintly grasped at something, he concluded we are to fear God and do all He commands. Maybe there’s a lesson there for us.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

If “figuring it out” leads to realising and accepting that your single ambition in life is to please God, and then spending the post-two-years on living that ambition, then you would have had the most consequential two years of your life. Anything outside of that, I’m sorry, two years isn’t enough, nor is twenty years.

Solomon, having been king of one of the most powerful nations on earth; having the wisdom that inspired a queen to travel miles to witness it; having had all the women he desired; and denying himself practically of nothing that he desires; still got to the end and realised he still couldn’t figure it out.

The best Solomon could do was to say “well, eat and drink, enjoy the labour, and most importantly, fear God.” That’s the best he got from all the life of trying to “figure it out.”

I hope and pray that you find it worthy in your heart to live a life with a singular ambition to please God.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

Ephesians 5 | MSG

8-10: You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true — these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

To please God!

If you have followed me on here for a while you would have noticed a clear pattern of my posts staying long a topic for a time until I’ve fully internalised it or it’s done serving its purpose.

On this topic, what I’m learning is how settling on a singular overarching purpose, such as described below, could improve the quality of one’s life, first from the mind and subsequently in the life expressed.

To be going through the valley of the shadow of death and to fear not because you have concluded and accepted deep within that all things in your life orient towards a singular purpose, pleasing God. And that experience is not different.

To be not be surprised or puffed when you abound in plenty (I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.) for you know you can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:12-13 KJV

And the only ambition that drives you becomes “that I may be pleasing to Him, to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness, to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son”

This, as C. S. Lewis puts it, “It seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

Is that grounds for complaining that God is unfair? Not so fast, please. God told Moses, “ I’m in charge of mercy. I’m in charge of compassion.” Compassion doesn’t originate in our bleeding hearts or moral sweat, but in God’s mercy.
Romans 9:14-18 MSG
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[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

If “figuring it out” leads to realising and accepting that your single ambition in life is to please God, and then spending the post-two-years on living that ambition, then you would have had the most consequential two years of your life. Anything outside of that, I’m sorry, two years isn’t enough, nor is twenty years.

Solomon, having been king of one of the most powerful nations on earth; having the wisdom that inspired a queen to travel miles to witness it; having had all the women he desired; and denying himself practically of nothing that he desires; still got to the end and realised he still couldn’t figure it out.

The best Solomon could do was to say “well, eat and drink, enjoy the labour, and most importantly, fear God.” That’s the best he got from all the life of trying to “figure it out.”

I hope and pray that you find it worthy in your heart to live a life with a singular ambition to please God.

[27. @dimvji]

idk how to explain it but i have just two years to figure it out

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

@JesseOguns For the most part, yes!

Mostly concentrated in AI, with holdings here and there in Space and Military tech.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

I just had a thought. Wealth creation in a decade is often defined by a single industry. So, if we consider this decade, AI would be that industry. Therefore, if I were to start investing from scratch, it would be best to invest all my money in AI stocks.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

On (stock) investing:

Over a long enough period of time, you will sell too early, hold on for too long, and miss a lot of opportunities along the way, regardless of your best attempts and efforts to be the best investor.

All of the above doesn’t matter, though. In the end, what matters is whether you get an outcome that meets your goal. Do you now have a desired net-worth? Is the dividend now paying you enough to take care of you? Etc.

Note that while the desire is often always to achieve the goal in the shortest possible time, this desire falls in the category of what doesn’t matter so much in the end.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

@DavidAbu_ , well done to you and the team. Not sure if you are still with this team.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

I’ve done any enterprise-grade Power BI deployment in the last 5 years or so. I recently took the Fabric Analytics Engineering exam and I’m amazed by how much the entire stack has changed.

Most of the issues I faced during the last deployment are now better managed: calculation groups, a larger semantic model enabled, git integration, delta table connections, etc. are all new features since then that fixes them. Love it. Looking forward to using them all soon.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

I’ve done any enterprise-grade Power BI deployment in the last 5 years or so. I recently took the Fabric Analytics Engineering exam and I’m amazed by how much the entire stack has changed.

Most of the issues I faced during the last deployment are now better managed: calculation groups, a larger semantic model enabled, git integration, delta table connections, etc. are all new features since then that fixes them. Love it. Looking forward to using them all soon.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

I think eventually, AI cost per task either plummet or companies regard it as a necessary technology spend not to cut cost but to grow revenue.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

When an employee works overtime, you could choose not to pay them or set a maximum amount you would pay them. When you use AI agents on the other hand, you have to pay for every second that it works. For AI agents to replace human labour, they don’t just have to be comparable in cost to human labour; they must be significantly cheaper.

[Ewgi @Ssaasquatch]

Welcome. For some reason, people have the misconception that pursuing anything "shiny" will always result in financial ruin, even though this is not always the case. Think of AI, Crypro, memes etc forgetting that your primary goal as an investor is to create wealth. A shrewd investor is one who can determine the right amount of exposure and balance across all asset classes and who can adjust course fast as narratives shift. As an investor, you should, in fact, always adhere to the narratives.
Right now, memes, AI stocks, and cryptocurrency (particularly GPUs, Depin, etc.) are trending narratives. If you are not exposed to any of these, I wish you the best

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

“Specific industry groups lead each market cycle.”

We are in the market cycle of AI, supported by Utilities-energy. Another notable industry in this cycle is Space. But AI leads. Make of that what pleases you.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

I will be clear again, wealth creation in any decade is usually defined by an industry opening up new opportunities. For the next decade (2 to 3 I’d say), AI is what is helping define that. Don’t take AI as simply AI, consider its value chain and consider where you can best capture value.

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

Nearly everything that’s performing well since I posted this has been AI linked (not all). The chain has also grown beyond what most people anticipated and now lifting a more comprehensive list of companies along the AI supply chain. Selah!

[David Alade @DavidAlade__]

I just had a thought. Wealth creation in a decade is often defined by a single industry. So, if we consider this decade, AI would be that industry. Therefore, if I were to start investing from scratch, it would be best to invest all my money in AI stocks.