alona (lerman) stern

Bicycle riding, design loving, business-strategy-and-marketing-focused lady.

[Elad Simchayoff @Elad_Si]

Israeli airline Israir is calling on British authorities to investigate a series of incidents that damaged its aircraft, suspecting they may be targeted acts against the airline.

The latest happened Thursday at Luton Airport, where a pushback tug struck an Israir plane, forcing passengers to disembark and the flight to be cancelled. Israir says it's the third such incident in under a year.

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

Never underestimate what people will believe if you say it with enough confidence.

[Lazar Berman @Lazar_Berman]

Rahm Emanuel presents himself as someone who deeply cares abt Israel & understands it in ways other US officials don't.

Putting aside him obv jumping thru Israel-bashing hoops to run for 2028 Dem nomination - he's shockingly uninformed on Israel.

On Dan Senor's podcast... 1/8

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

What happened at @startupfest yesterday was antisemitism. Pure & simple. Disguised under a thin veil of advocacy, and everyone in the room saw right through it.

I was on stage with Georges St-Pierre talking about entrepreneurship. Not politics. A man burst in screaming horrible accusations at me anyway. Third time in 2 years, including at the opening of a Jewish community centre.

My parents were in the front row. I'll never forget their faces.

When the target is always the Jew and never the topic, it's not advocacy. It's hate.

The room booed him down and cheered as he was walked out. I'm grateful for that.

Hate got escorted out. We got right back to building.

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

@MegKeene 1000% agree. I am so lucky to be married to one of those! He's my biggest champion and one of our sayings (in Hebrew it sounds better) - "your success is my success". Love teaching that value to our kid.

[נדב איל Nadav Eyal @Nadav_Eyal]

The Iranians and Hezbollah knew exactly what they were doing when they launched drones at Israel. Their goal was escalation- in the hope of driving a wedge between Jerusalem and Washington and underscoring that killing Israelis is fair game on the eve of an agreement -and after.

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

On the UP train in Toronto enjoying the free wifi and wondering why @IsraelRail can't offer the same.

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

"Pass me the butter" analogy is great. Just sent my husband a selfie to answer his question if I'm on the train.

[Julian Lehr @julianlehr]

New essay:
The case against conversational interfaces

• Natural language is a bottleneck
• The "pass me the butter" test
• AI as augmentation

↓

https://t.co/9TaJvDsyWZ

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

@yaelshevach The best thread on all of Twitter

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

@jakozloski My husband and I got engaged after 5.5 months and married 3.5 months later. Happily married 13 years (but the first year was very challenging!)

[David Epstein @DavidEpstein]

I wrote this book in part because the most common question I got from readers of Range was something along the lines of: "I've had diverse experiences; I have a broad toolkit; I'm curious about everything, but I have trouble figuring out what to do." ...And I put myself in that same boat. At some point, you have to channel that into actually doing something.

So I wrote the book I needed—a companion to Range that I felt was responsive to the question I kept getting. I appreciate everyone who has taken an interest in it.

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

i listened to the people and turned my thoughts on finding side doors in career context into a full essay.

read here: https://t.co/AlMF6zMyQX

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

@0xCharlota Hard agree. I've been advising job seekers and it's my first recommendation. Hard to do but i like this reframe!

[Oren Kessler @OrenKessler]

Today's ahistorical insanity comes from @LRB:

Upon visiting Beersheba in 1948, "Ben-Gurion... admired the fine stone buildings, the Arab houses... He liked them so much so he decided to live there. After his death in 1973 he was buried at Sde Boker..."

https://t.co/MF6BpZ1fpd

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The NYT is predictably tearing down Reese Witherspoon for encouraging moms to try AI before they ingest the anti-AI pablum as truth

Instead of linking to the NYT op-ed, I think you should watch this video and encourage you to follow Reese Witherspoon on Instagram

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

Implementing immediately. . .

[Ariel Karlinsky @ArielKarlinsky]

https://t.co/oKWyYhZ2rC 🤣

@dansenor

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

I have been waiting for this and finally remembered to check back to see if he shared this! Excited to see if I can hack it together myself

[Emiel Janson @emieljanson]

You can now build one yourself!

Instructions with 3d file and code are on https://t.co/2YTTGMUV4h

And for those that just want to buy one, you can drop your email on https://t.co/a5sejm6F6a to be the first to preorder.

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

Brilliant, fantastic, love it, more of this!!

[‎ 〰️ @cachedeposits]

today in Hell Yeah Technology:

an uncle of mine recently had a stroke

he was at dinner with his family, making them laugh as usual. when they got home, he told his wife he was feeling “off.” by morning, he physically couldn’t get out of bed

after being in a vegetative state for weeks, he’s conscious and doing a little better, but doctors say it’s unlikely he’ll ever speak or walk again

thankfully, somehow, his dominant arm still works - so to make communication less frustrating for everyone involved, i built this local, iPad-first communication board for him with text-to-speech

one of theee simplest, most important tools i’ve ever made

being able to create something useful for a specific person’s needs, without any fluff, in a single sitting, is just unreal

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

@businessbarista AI-native

[alona (lerman) stern @thisisalona]

I feel seen.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Can anyone recommend a dead simple, easy to use notetaking app based on markdown files?

Obsidian is far too complicated for me. I'm looking for Apple Notes, but with markdown storage

[Morgan @morganlinton]

If you have a 16gb Mac Mini - here’s your cheat sheet for running local LLMs ⬇️