Tag: CEO
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The Asana of Success
Yoga aims to unite the body, mind, and soul together to form an integrated whole. All is one. As I reflect on my 25-year yoga journey, I realize there are certain go-to poses in my Vinyasa database, if you will. This makes me wonder what it is in my personality that attracts me to the…
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Darwinian Data, Evolutionary AI, and How to Survive
Charles Darwin famously said in 1859, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent… It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” But Darwin’s perspective is no longer just about animal species; it’s also about current models and data. 165 years after Darwin published his theory…
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What Is Important for Any CEO?
How many sales presentations have you attended? For me, it’s 4,695. But who’s counting? Going back to 1995 when I joined Oracle, that’s the number I’ve logged, like a fatigued Delta Diamond Medallion flyer. And like a Medallion flyer, after thousands of journeys under my seatbelt, I’ve identified and lived by the patterns that lead…
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How Much Does it Cost to Make Money?
Way back in 2014, Meta/Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, and just recently, they decided to monetize their 2 billion WhatsApp user community with ads. They also just plunked down $14b on Scale AI. Even bigger, perhaps, is Apple thinking about buying Perplexity, which, to me, makes a lot of sense, especially because of their…
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Quantum, Classic, Still Stupid Data
The need for a new type system. The age of quantum is about to begin, like Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, who seeks to dominate Middle-earth and all its inhabitants. Its ascendance is around the corner, starting to establish a new world order, still in the depths of Mordor, yet ever-so magically manifesting…