Loz Knowles

Passionate about AI, nature, technology, social, gardening, cooking & all things HR. Views expressed are mine

[HRCurator @HRCurator]

Case Study: Accelerating Growth through Informal #Leadership at @Ortoplus https://t.co/7nrUwqKFIL @CTS_ONA #PeopleAnalytics #HR #HCM #HRM #HumanResources

[Loz Knowles @lozknowles]

Let's just hope the bias inherent in many AI systems is understood as much if not better than human bias in the important transactional functions.

[HRCurator @HRCurator]

UNLEASH World 2024: ‘In this #AI era, #HR needs to jettison basic admin functions and elevate to strategic functions’, says Gary Bolles https://t.co/dsEgWeLJPG @UNLEASHgroup #HCM #HRM #HRTech #HumanResources #FutureofHR

[Loz Knowles @lozknowles]

And the very word "woke", that appears to have started as a call for awareness has since undergone semantic shifts depending on cultural and political contexts.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Very interesting charts. Word frequency is a great way to understand origins & growth of mind viruses.

Same core epidemiology as biological or computer viruses. Some combination of deliberate or accidental creation, combined with natural & artificial growth factors.

[Loz Knowles @lozknowles]

@elonmusk And the word woke is a great example of how a word that appears to have started as a call for awareness has since undergone semantic shifts depending on cultural and political contexts.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people.

This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes.

And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What is happening in the UK!? 🇬🇧

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Very satisfying tbh 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink’s new system enables Internet connectivity for your mobile phone with no extra equipment or special app.

It just works.

[TheBetterPath @TheBetterPath_]

Your brain has been fooling you your entire life.

This Nobel Prize winner spent 40 years proving it.

Here are the 10 mental traps controlling every decision you make: 🧵

[Noble Masculinity @Noblemasculin1]

Winston Churchill was a real son of a b*tch.

His philosophies may offend but will definitely give you chills.

12 lessons from the UK's most controversial & badass politician:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock 🤭

[Eduard Sebastian @Eduard_Seb]

This man has one of the Highest IQs ever recorded (210).

Christopher Logan is smarter than Einstein (160 IQ), yet he chose to become a farmer while developing his theory about the nature of the universe.

Here are 7 of his most powerful insights about God, evil, aliens, and the human psyche:

[Darshan 🦖 @darshan]

Your brain has been fooling you your entire life.

This Nobel Prize winner spent 40 years proving it.

Here are the 10 mental traps controlling every decision you make: 🧵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

After thinking it through, SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free.

This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments.

Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot or were unable to pay for it.

[Loz Knowles @lozknowles]

Looking 👍 https://t.co/Hm2Qt9YvQF

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers."

They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech to analyze the emotional arcs, and then identified 6 patterns seen over and over again in western storytelling.

Here they are:

1. Rags to Riches (rise)

Your classic underdog tale. A humble, hardworking peasant climbs the mountain to pull the sword from the stone.

• Rocky
• King Arthur
• The Pursuit of Happiness

2. Riches to Rags (fall)

Maybe the saddest story of them all. A journey from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows.

• King Lear
• Citizen Kane
• Scarlet Letter

3. Man in a Hole (fall then rise)

A character’s doing fine, gets herself into a huge problem, but figures out how to overcome it. They often end up better than they started.

“You see this story again and again,” Vonnegut says. “People love it, and it is not copyrighted.”

• The Martian
• The Hunger Games
• Shawshank Redemption

4. Icarus (rise then fall)

The hero goes on a meteoric rise up New York (or some other) society, calls everyone “old sport,” and throws the wildest parties in town. Then reality sets in, and he realizes he’s too close to the sun.

• Macbeth
• Great Gatsby
• Death of a Salesman

5. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise)

I’ll leave this description to Vonnegut:

“We’re gonna start way down here. Worse than that, who is so low? It’s a little girl… the shoe fits, and she achieves off-scale happiness.”

• Red Rising
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Count of Monte Cristo

This is my personal favorite.

6. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall)

Up until the ~70% mark of the story it looks like things are sunshine and rainbows. Walter White goes from high school teacher to king of the drug lords, if you will. Then all goes wrong. The original fall is often not their doing while the final fall is.

• Hamlet
• Gone Girl
• Breaking Bad

My 3 takeaways:

1. Rags to Riches, Oedipus, and Cinderella rank as the three most popular with consumers. AKA, those books sold the most copies.

2. When you think through a story, give it an emotional shape. Literally draw it.

X axis: Time
Y axis: Ill fortune to good fortune

You might be surprised how much it helps you craft your plot (I was shocked).

3. Vonnegut was a damn genius.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Disney offers an elegant solution to VR’s movement problem https://t.co/uqlrXZM071

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

“Exercise is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today."

https://t.co/7DBD9Ygzfd

[Loz Knowles @lozknowles]

Well worth a watch! https://t.co/MOSMBmUI24

[Loz Knowles @lozknowles]

Lake District August 2021 https://t.co/HaesdURyCO