Your downloads, opportunities and possibilities, increasing entrepreneurial performance, and more!

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You can download the Introduction to Thriving on Overload here.

You can download the Exercises from Thriving on Overload here. Note that the exercises are intended for those who have read the book.

And you can download a compilation of 10 Humans + AI Frameworks here.

• 2024 Ventures map

• Questy for AI research

• GenAI can help entrepreneurial performance… if used well

• Nora Bateson, Dave Gray, John Hagel and April Rinne on how to see and seize opportunities and possibilities

• Making the case for cyborgs

• Can GenAI help create better news discovery apps?

As I explore in detail in Thriving on Overload, developing visual frameworks is invaluable in helping clarify and develop our thinking.

I frequently create visual frameworks to help future thinking. I also use them to help clarify for myself and others the relationship between my ventures.

My 2024 Ventures Map below lays out what I’m focusing on year, including this newsletter at the center!

Click through to find out more. I’ll be sharing more as we go.

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Use Questy for research

One of the AI tools currently most discussed among AI explorers is Questy.ai. I was fortunate to get an early preview from the founder Dave Sifry when I was visiting San Francisco early last year. It is designed as a research tool, summarizing and providing links to relevant papers, and going through multi-layer checking processes to ensure there are no hallucinations in its outputs. [While I know Dave we have no relationship to the app]

GenAI can help entrepreneurial performance… if used well

A study of 640 Kenyan entrepreneurs using GenAI to help them in their business showed the best had a 20% improvement but the worst had 10% decline in performance. The difference was in the tasks they asked for GenAI help, with low performers asking for help on the most complex tasks and not able to execute well on the advice.

The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

Omotenashi can help frame where humans excel

“Companies and their leaders will need to figure out what AI cannot replace -- and infuse it across their organizations. This urgent question brought to my mind the concept of omotenashi, a Japanese mindset focused on anticipating other people's needs and creating memorable experiences for them. It is not something AI could easily master.”

Japan's 'omotenashi' culture can offer an edge in the AI age

Making the case for cyborgs

“Augmenting human intelligence beyond AI will take us much further than creating something new”, writes Alice Albrecht, founder of re:collect, which aims to augment human intelligence with AI.

The Case for Cyborgs

Can GenAI help create better news discovery apps?

Artifact, the news discovery app launched a year ago by the founders of Instagram, has just announced it is shutting down, saying “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.”

In this post I look at the state of news and information discovery and whether we can expect better tools to emerge.

Thank you for reading!

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