Ron Barrett

CEO, Founder of Deliver On Success, a management advisory firm, "To improve our business client's quality of success."
Co-founder of Wacom Technology.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

Poverty does not find its source in a lack of money.
Hundreds of Billions in Loans Didn’t Make a Dent in Global Poverty - WSJ https://t.co/L0s1V99iVG

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@sonyatweetybird @OfficialLoganK @GoogleDeepMind Where's the tweetybirds??

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@stephzhan @MiddeskHQ @Kalshi "Business 'formations' just hit an all time high in March." A few questions:
- Over what time period?
- How many business "closures"?
- What is the 2026 YTD trend?

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@ArthurMacwaters I think you give to much credit to government leaders of the west (i.e. disbelief). They very much believe if evil and welcome it for they wish to control it. You know, like Dr. Frankenstein did.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@pmarca "Anthropic says the nerf only affects .03% of requests" TODAY. In other words, this is a beta-test for the future.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Someone should write a science fiction novel about this scenario.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

Claude Fable "SILENTLY SABOTAGING" of users.
I was going to write a post at length about this, but decided @WesRoth did a far better job at summarizing the implications of Anthropic's crossing "the red line".
Taking AI-bias up an order of magnitude.
https://t.co/OAg9Z4ELhB

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

Perfect

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“People with very high expectations have very low resilience. Unfortunately, resilience matters in success.

Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character can only be the result of overcoming setbacks and adversity.”

— Jensen Huang (The Nvidia Way)

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

I'm sure there are people who believe this is Trump's fault.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing as climate change melts glaciers and polar ice sheets, redistributing water across the planet and subtly lengthening the day, according to research.
Read more: https://t.co/XhQU9T53zz
Photo: Getty Images

[Heritage Foundation @Heritage]

Right-wing extremism is so uncommon that left-wing extremists have to fund it.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

Exactly

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized:

You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway.

In other words, you want the government to save us from… you.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

Deeper issues and players make a "broken social compact" a symptom rather than a cause. For example, dramatic decrease in religious belief and practice over the past 40 years. Coveting, wanting to take what another has, is condoned. Virtue largely buried.

[The Techno Optimist @technooptimist1]

Chamath Palihapitiya explains why the social contract is collapsing:

"We're at the tail end of a cycle that doesn't work anymore, which is all about this tension between labor, people that do the work, and capital, the people that fund it and then make all the returns."

"Over the last 40 years, we've basically gone to this completely upside-down world where capital extracts all of the upside, and labor has extracted less and less and less and less. All of this pushback manifests in AI, it manifests in politics, it manifests in social issues, it manifests in Israel. Whatever you want to talk about, all of these issues, I think, symptomologically, come from this other issue, which is we are out of balance."

"This total compact that we used to have, a liberal democracy and a free market, has totally collapsed. There are simple ways to fix that, but that never gets the attention because it's not what you want to talk about."

"The attention is here. Vote no to the data center. You know, this model is going to take out all the jobs. You know, this social issue is really important. That war should not be fought. That war should be fought. All of these things, while important, distract us from what the core issue is. The core issue is that we as a society, I think, are out of balance. The natural compact between all of us is broken, and there are some simple ways to fix that compact, get people more invested, get people more engaged in the upside, have people have a positive some view of what's happening, and that isn't happening."

— @chamath on @joerogan's Podcast E2494

[Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird]

Loving all the research coming out of @harvey, @FactoryAI etc right now

The earliest set of application companies are undergoing the evolution from pure app layer to serious research organizations.

A sign of things to come.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@jarvis_jim1161 @hayasaka_aryan Hahaha, well, that's one choice. 🤣

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@jarvis_jim1161 @hayasaka_aryan No, @jarvis_jim1161, you (and everyone) have the "ability" to choose to be angry, which is different from a "right". For example, a person has the ability to torture another, but not the right to do so.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

Everyone following the AI industry is aware of the compute shortage (e.g. energy and chip limitations). The future is transformation of compute to intelligence and actions. Question: What if the shortage is permanent (i.e. ever growing demand)?

[McKinsey & Company @McKinsey]

As AI transforms how we work, access to skills is becoming a key driver of economic opportunity.

Our Sustainable & Inclusive Growth Impact Report explores how closing skill gaps can help people thrive while building resilient, future-ready workforces. https://t.co/ytSHztcHdx

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@sonyatweetybird @davidchalmers42 The Turing Test proposed a threshold for "artificial" intelligence in that during a conversation a person would be unable to determine the other is a machine or human. Let's remember that an AI-LLM is a computer file of numbers who's presentation is mimicry.

[Ron Barrett @Ron_Barrett]

@mybizonly74 @kalenakhalifa @fox12oregon Many believe the downfall of Portland began in 2020 with COVID19 (while conveniently forgetting the daily protests and riots.) IMO, the fall started 4 years earlier in 2016. Protests and riots over the election of Trump. A bridge and freeway taken over, no police in sight.