Jon Sy

digital. culture.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@patrickkeenanme Power's out at Princess Margaret, too. Seeing tweets from Yonge / Dundas.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@communicable It's everywhere one looks these days, methinks.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@hitsamty Excellent episode choice.

"He was an interior decorator."

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@neilpatel Hi Neil. Might blending ads into responses degrade overall user trust? Search engines separate organic (or AI overviews) from paid to protect this.

I’m curious to see how the ux, ui makes it happen.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@omooretweets Not just businesses. As a consumer /regular user, I've been using Google Call Screen for a couple of years now. Great for avoiding spam calls.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@Britopian Nice one, sir! Thanks for sharing. I’ll be applying this to my work.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@BrianRoemmele Thanks for sharing, @BrianRoemmele. It sounds like "quality over quantity" matters more than ever.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

When I heard about the amount of money to be spent on AI computing power via Project Stargate, this Simpsons clip came to mind.

https://t.co/Mj9dLpRcWu

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jensen Huang on why he rarely fires people and will instead “torture them into greatness”

Jensen once told Stripe founder Patrick Collison that he didn’t like firing people and seldomly did it. When asked to elaborate on this, Jensen responds:

“I’d rather improve you than give up on you. When you fire somebody, a lot of people will say ‘it wasn’t your fault,’ or ‘I made the wrong choice.’ But I used to clean bathrooms and now I’m the CEO of a company. I think you can learn it. There are a lot of things in life that I think you can learn and you just have to be given the opportunity to learn it… I don’t like giving up on people because I think they can improve.”

He continues:

“It’s kind of tongue in cheek, but people know I’d rather torture them into greatness. I’d rather torture you into greatness because I believe in you. And I think that coaches that really believe in their team torture them into greatness. Oftentimes they’re so close. Greatness will sometimes come in one day with an ‘I got it!’ — that feeling that you didn’t get it yesterday and all of a sudden one day something clicks. Could you imagine giving up that moment right before you got it? I don’t want you to give up on that, so I’ll just keep torturing you.”

Video source: @stripe (2024)

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

Really interesting form and design.

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

GALAXEA AI released two humanoid robots: R1 Pro and R1 Lite. Together with the previously released R1
, start $27k. R1 Pro can lift 10 kg and reach a height of 2 meters, suitable for industrial collaboration and complex and delicate tasks. R1 Lite is a data collection robot.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@armano I thought it would shoot out a net, but this is better. Less Wile E Coyote.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

Apple got people cutting onions. Great ad... Just in time for the holidays.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

I'm so proud of the many teams across Apple developing powerful technologies that are improving people’s lives. The Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2 uses your personalized sound profile so you can hear the moments that matter.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

I tend to agree with this. careful curation and ongoing awareness.

Also, encourage watching with siblings/friends vs. isolation.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Screen time isn't bad for your kids with moderation.

What's bad is that 99% of the kid content on screens is trash (e.g., YouTube).

I'm fine with my kids using their iPad everyday to learn from the right apps (e.g., @synthesischool, @ScratchJr, @Duolingo).

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@theelusivefish Nice! And onboard Wi-Fi?? Living large, Rob! 🚢

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

This is fantastic storytelling in advertising.

[Guillaume Huin @HuinGuillaume]

Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer.

It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.

Every comment under the ad said it immediately put Volvo in their consideration set. It's fucking fantastic.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

One step closer to unlocking the Matrix.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

This is DimensionX

This AI can take single image and create any 3D and 4D scenes with prompt.

8 wild examples (and how to try):

1. Camera left

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

@Shwinnabego I mean "5 bars, 1 star" is quite catchy.

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

Universally useful advice.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

“Use the difficulty.”

~ Michael Caine

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

It's getting to be rush hour in the AI agents sector.

[Adam Silverman (Hiring!) 🖇️ @adamsilverman]

Do you know about the 10+ AI agent launches this week?

I put everything that you need to know below from companies like @Microsoft, @SlackHQ, @11x_official, @crewAIInc, @gumloop, @CognosysAI, and others 🧵⬇️

[Jon Sy @jonsy]

I don’t like default opt-ins, so sharing a brief public service announcement.