Juan Manuel Quintero

Time, travel - physics and aviation

[Jasper Polak @polak_jasper]

McKinsey published a piece this week on "The Agentic Organization." They claim most companies are stuck in pilot mode because the work itself hasn't changed.

What "pilot mode" looks like at a 75-person consulting firm I've seen inside:

- One analyst running Claude for market research.
- A few associates using Gemini to draft deck sections.
- A partner who built a private GPT for proposal writing and didn't tell anyone.

All real. But none of them changes the firm's throughput, win rate, or margin. The pilots aren't failing because the tools are wrong. They're failing because nobody redesigned the workflow around them.

Going from pilot to production means picking one full workflow, rebuilding it agent-first, measuring it against the old one, then rolling it out across the firm. That's the step McKinsey's framing is pointing at.

Most firms skip it because it's harder than adding more tools.

Link: https://t.co/PVw79wZ5Ur

[Juan Manuel Quintero @maxseans]

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[Juan Manuel Quintero @maxseans]

Stanford’s AI Index 2026 makes it clear: AI is no longer a trend …it’s infrastructure.Adoption is accelerating, regulation is expanding globally, and the focus has shifted to measurable economic impact.

This is a structural shift, not a tech cycle.

#AI #Stanford #Innovation

[McKinsey & Company @McKinsey]

Disruptors are rewriting the CPG playbook.

Not with one move, but with a system: sharper positioning, faster cycles, and digital at the core.

Six traits are driving the difference. Established brands are adapting now. https://t.co/a7LR12K5uk

[deep value insights @NoelWieder]

Buffett's letters to shareholders are some of the best things I have ever read. And I read a lot.

They're better than any course. No degree could teach you investing the way these letters do.

Here are my favorite passages.

Thread:

[International and Monetary Economics Network @int_mon_econ]

Very valuable!

"Introduction to Quantitative Economics" by Jesse M Shapiro.

"Offering a new pedagogical paradigm, this textbook delivers a ready-made economics course covering the general concepts that unify different approaches to bringing economic models to data. Jesse Shapiro presents core ideas in quantitative economics as an abstract, cohesive whole and introduces canonical models that can be used across a wide range of applications. This course-in-a-book exposes students to stylized applications of these models that illuminate their foundations as well as recent research articles demonstrating the models’ broad applicability."

https://t.co/wIRbmh9XfH

[Rosana Ferrero 📈📊🙌 @RosanaFerrero]

Evaluar un modelo de regresión es una parte clave del análisis. Un modelo puede parecer “bueno” a simple vista, pero sin una evaluación rigurosa es fácil caer en conclusiones engañosas.
Ahora, para evaluar un modelo necesitas múltiples perspectivas y preguntas distintas👇🧵

[Juan Manuel Quintero @maxseans]

Yale / polak

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

A masterclass on ‘how to speak’ by MIT professor Patrick Winston - 15 key lessons

[Rony @Ronycoder]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture on AI careers. It will teach you more about winning in the AI race than all the AI content you’ve scrolled past this year.

[Juan Manuel Quintero @maxseans]

Awesome

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

AutoGPTs are improving at a blazingly fast speed and could soon transform the face of business.

Here's what you need to know:

[The New York Times @nytimes]

"Made it last night for the umpteenth time. So good."

A speedy, pantry-friendly dish, canned white beans braised in olive oil and tomatoes become stewlike and creamy. https://t.co/jUjW6riJCH

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

Agility can lead to negative outcomes if leaders don’t recognize the pitfalls in its processes. https://t.co/zAkH5MUKZe

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Every year, global organizations spend more than $60 billion on leadership development programs. So, why isn't the return on investment always clear? https://t.co/VYJCmfvl7k

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

Help Your Team Make Faster Decisions: Identifying decisions as low or high risk and low or high urgency helps to clarify expectations. https://t.co/xpJEjXT5tJ

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

Organizations should design suggestion systems to appeal to each of the three types of hidden innovators, stating different purposes and offering different resources, incentives, and involvement going forward.

Read the new research ▶️ https://t.co/4x9KenUbaJ

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

There are 6 archetypes for how collaboration becomes dysfunctional and negatively impacts performance. To fix the dysfunction, leaders need to understand which problem they're facing. https://t.co/Ds11mPrIEE

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

Help Your Team Make Faster Decisions: Identifying decisions as low or high risk and low or high urgency helps to clarify expectations. https://t.co/xpJEjXT5tJ

[Manuel Fernández @mfernandezariza]

La elevada inflación tiene incidencia sobre los bienes que consumen tanto las empresas como los hogares. Nuestra opinión sobre el tema, hoy en @elheraldoco
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Poder adquisitivo en Barranquilla, afectado por inflación: gremios https://t.co/HXLS3f7AyS