Anand Gurunathan

A random dude sitting on a spinning ball in the middle of nowhere, worrying about JIRA hygiene. Views are my own.

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid"

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@sportslarryk 😢

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@scottbelsky ‼️

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Beautifully said

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos asked a room to imagine going back a hundred years.

When almost everyone was a farmer.

And telling those farmers that in 2018 there’d be a job called “massage therapist.”

Bezos: “They would not have believed you.”

Then a friend took it further.

Bezos: “Forget massage therapist, there are dog psychiatrists.”

He looked it up.

Bezos: “Sure enough, you can easily hire a psychiatrist for your dog.”

The room laughed.

The point under the laughter wasn’t funny at all.

Every time a major technology shift hits, we do the exact same thing.

We count the jobs it will destroy.

We never count the ones it will create.

Because we can’t.

They don’t have names yet.

The fear is always specific.

AI will replace accountants. AI will replace radiologists. AI will replace drivers.

The fear has job titles and timelines and projections.

The opportunity has none of those things.

Because you can’t name what doesn’t exist yet.

A farmer in 1920 could understand losing his job to a tractor.

He could not understand gaining a career as a social media strategist.

Not because he lacked intelligence.

Because the entire chain of inventions between his world and that job hadn’t been built yet.

Radio. Television. The internet. Smartphones. Social platforms. Creator economies.

Every single link in that chain had to exist before “social media strategist” could even be a sentence.

That’s where we are with AI right now.

Everyone is staring at the tractor.

Nobody can see the thing seven inventions away that doesn’t have a name yet.

The fear is loud because it fits inside language we already have.

The opportunity is silent because it doesn’t.

Every technological revolution in history created more jobs than it destroyed.

Every single one.

Not because anyone planned it.

Because human needs expand faster than machines can fill them.

We didn’t need massage therapists when we were breaking our backs on farms.

We needed them after machines freed our backs and stress replaced labor.

The demand didn’t disappear.

It migrated somewhere no one was looking.

That is exactly what’s happening right now.

The jobs AI creates won’t make sense to us yet.

They’ll sound as absurd as “dog psychiatrist” would’ve sounded to a farmer in 1920.

Until someone is running a $200 hourly practice with a six-month waitlist.

The entire conversation right now is about what we’re about to lose.

Nobody is talking about what we’re about to gain.

Because the gains don’t have vocabulary yet.

A hundred years from now, someone will stand on a stage and describe the jobs we couldn’t imagine today.

And the audience will laugh.

The same way we just did.

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@andymadrick @NotionHQ Daily

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@LombardiHimself Wait till Rams find out how many niner fans are in Australia 😂

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Beautiful day in the Bay for #SBLX

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@AdamSchefter We call it Monday around here 😂

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“It’s a process. It’s a way you go about doing things. It’s a high standard, high expectation, it’s accountability. It’s discipline, commitment, toughness, work ethic, pride. It’s wanting to be great vs. wanting to be normal,” Curt Cignetti

The difference is within you.

[Anand Gurunathan @aguru]

"Ultimately, football is show business. If the audience loses interest, the show will go on in an empty arena."

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[ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk]

As Week 18 approaches, here's a look at the teams we'll be watching for potential coaching (and/or G.M.) changes. https://t.co/oiGFCPMHqt

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@ChrisJBakke 🔥🔥🔥

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@TayborSnapping I’d recommend D.T. Suzuki museum and visiting the Higashi Chaya district (you may want to try the gold leaf ice cream).

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Practice seeking patterns in feedback

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A must read for all, esp. those who have young children

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse?

Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge.

This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

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Virtue signaling works-until the rent is due

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Practice clarifying intent. To yourself.

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@sahil_kurup As he should

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Politics = Information - Context

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@tarallels @JoshDubowAP i bet neither does he

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I see an INT coming #SBLVIII

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I see an INT coming #SBLVIII