Simon Baron

CPO @AssessFirst Who I am : TEDx :

[Pierre Entremont @PEntremont]

L'IA est en train de remplacer les intellectuels.

Celle là personne ne l'avait vu venir. Mais force est de constater que des comptes X qui ne font "que" prompter et copier-coller obtiennent des textes de qualité bonne voire très bonne, qui plaisent à des millions de lecteurs, et mobilisent des Musk, Ted Cruz ou Milei.

Bien sûr les intellectuels "officiels" s'insurgent : comment un homme de la rue peut-il prétendre jongler entre auteurs et concepts avec l'aisance d'un agrégé, du jour au lendemain ? Il est pourtant évident qu'il en serait incapable "à l'ancienne" ! Que fait la police !

Je trouve ce phénomène fascinant. Il nous dit qu'au fond, un des rôles des intellectuels était de préciser et mettre en forme la pensée de son audience.
D'une population qui ressent des choses mais n'a "pas les mots" pour les exprimer, et signifie à l'auteur qu'il a tapé juste en achetant son livre, assistant à sa conférence, ou votant pour le parti qui reprend sa réthorique.

Avec l'IA, l'homme de la rue a à sa disposition en "self service" les outils autrefois monopole des intellectuels classiques : raisonnements à tiroirs, références pointues, comparaisons virtuoses, connaissance fine de la généalogie des idées... La machine ne fait qu'une bouchée de tout cela.

Alors bien sûr, on dira que tout cela n'est que forme et ne dispense pas de savoir ce que l'on veut dire.

Mépris suprême répondent les néo-penseurs, qui affirment savoir ce qu'ils pensent. Il ne leur manquait que les mots pour le dire !

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@juliensalinas Why’s that?

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@Clara_Gold Posting this one on LinkedIn would be 🍿🍿🍿

[George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian]

if you are using Cursor/Claude Code/Codex etc. don’t forget to take breaks, drink water, exercise, talk to your friends and family, read books and enjoy life

[William Meijer @williameijer]

Your country’s average IQ matters far more than your own. At the individual level, +1 IQ point predicts 1% higher wages. At the national level, +1 IQ point predicts 6-7% higher GDP per worker. Small differences in individual traits produce large differences in collective outcomes

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"The purest form of ambition and most intense source of energy in the business is the founder CEO. Every next concentric circle of management beyond the founder CEO has the potential to be an order of magnitude drop off in intensity.

And that is f*cking dangerous.

You don't need to buffer people from the intensity of the CEO—you need to absolutely mirror that intensity.

There is an infinite supply of people under you who will buffer other team members from the intensity of the demands. Your job is not to be one of those buffers.

If you want to achieve greatness, if you want an extraordinary outcome, then you have to relentlessly inject energy at every single step.

Teams will always optimize for local comfort over company outcomes. Your job as an executive, as a leader, is to fight that entropy tooth and nail, every single day."

— Matt MacInnis (@stanine), @Rippling CPO/COO

[DHH @dhh]

Here's the mission:

1) Make something of yourself.
2) Marry well.
3) Raise the next generation.

It's hard, but why shouldn't it be?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Whoa, I just realized that raising a kid is basically 18 years of prompt engineering 🤯

[Keely Jo Frasca, PhD @DrKeelyJoFrasca]

New #openaccess paper with @EmericKubiak, @simon_baron, & Maria Efremova, published in @FrontPsychol. #Gender equity in hiring: examining the effectiveness of a #personality-based #algorithm.

https://t.co/bd6gS8V18F

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@HehmanLab I would also recommend adding another trait (Honesty-Humility) / 3 facets (Greed avoidance / Modesty / Sincerity). Scales are available for free: https://t.co/rAj35tyRMV

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@HehmanLab BFI-2, without any doubt.

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

What are the characteristics of self-actualizing people?

I found 10 characteristics that cohere well together and predict happiness, meaning, creativity, job satisfaction, and job performance.

Take the test: https://t.co/zDkgPJ68gn
Scientific paper: https://t.co/kZvAthtzja

[David Stillwell @david_stillwell]

"crowd of psychometricians celebrating the demise of the MBTI personality test"

[David Green @david_green_uk]

Personality and Workplace Deviance: Big Five Versus HEXACO https://t.co/m2z4T3hg3u via @ScienceForWork

#Culture #HR #Recruiting #Assessment

[Michal Kosinski @michalkosinski]

GPT-3.5 can predict public figures' perceived personalities with stunning accuracy. Preprint available here: https://t.co/OsL3ut3kko. Below, see top/bottom 10 public figures on each Big5 personality trait. Check what @realDonaldTrump, Kim Jong-un, and @KanyeWest have in common!

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@nurijanian Don’t you think?

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@nurijanian Since you will be benchmark, better to strengthen your unfair advantage. What features didn’t the competitors dare to develop? What legacy do they inherited from the past that you can get rid of? Clients should tell about you: « they cracked something, that’s why I choose them. »

[Travis Avery @saastrash]

we’re fucked 😂😂

[Simon Baron @simon_baron]

@AssessFirst @USDKDunkerque 😉