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Headlights

Idea to Value

‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ This quote is often attributed to award-winning novelist E.L. Doctorow, but was popularised when it appeared in Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird (which also gave us some great tips on shitty first drafts ).

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WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?

Michael Michalko

There is not one operation by which the sun attracts Jupiter and another by which Jupiter attracts the sun, but one operation by which he sun and Jupiter endeavor to approach each other…there is one action between them by which they both approach each other. Similarly, creativity comes from observing the relationships between objects, rather than objects themselves, and making analogical connections.

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The Root Word of Contemporary Is Temporary

CorporateIntel

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. Then I remember who taught me the most about workplace navigation in the early years of my professional career. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. I don’t think a bit of traditional thinking about the nature of workplace relationships is incompatible with rapid innovation, agile thinking, evolving work

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The Principles and Implementation of Lean Improvement

Kainexus

To succeed in today's hyper-competitive environment, organizations must strive to improve continuously. But, because that's easier said than done, forward-thinking business leaders have developed several structured improvement methodologies over the years. One of the most widespread is an approach that grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, Lean manufacturing.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Disrupt Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Moving into a new year is always a time for retreating and reflecting to accelerate growth and harvest new ideas from our feelings, thoughts, and learnings gleaned from the last two years of disruption, extreme … Continue reading →

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Constructing the Future for Urban Development and Energy Efficient Homes

eZassi

The intersection of design and technical innovation come close to home in our workplaces and dwellings. Architects of today are tasked to design new buildings with emerging, energy efficient technology for the practical structures of tomorrow while maintaining beautiful and intriguing design elements. Home builders are provided a variety of new opportunities to make construction or renovations of their existing house more energy efficient, livable, green, and cost conscious.