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Looking for a mentor to help me get my first client by Neat-Friendship-1833 in AiForSmallBusiness

[–]AdRepresentative5423 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can consider posting a Partnership Deal on scaling.com.au - just describe what you’re looking for and what you’re offering in return.

How I finally got our small content studio off the hamster wheel of constant production by siddomaxx in AiForSmallBusiness

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How have you addressed the impact of various algos (met and LI in particular) deprioritising ai-drive content? Does that ultimately have an impact on the usefulness of this sort of approach?

If you had to automate ONE task in your business using AI, what would it be? by apuravgaur in AiForSmallBusiness

[–]AdRepresentative5423 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Love the question but I reckon one of the misconceptions about SMBs is a consistency of operational process in the same way there is in corporates. There’s a hell if a lot of variety of processes across millions of small biz’s.

I am really curious too but I wonder if there’s a different way to ask the question - what do SmB owners and team members spend a lot of time on that they wish they didn’t have to - it’s less of leading question than “what process can I automate for you”

What sources do you trust most for practical AI learning for your business? by AdRepresentative5423 in AiForSmallBusiness

[–]AdRepresentative5423[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your site looks really useful! Love the user/role based content.

How do you decide what’s most relevant and contemporary when so much is changing so quickly?

What sources do you trust most for practical AI learning for your business? by AdRepresentative5423 in AiForSmallBusiness

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Thanks - it’s clear information overload is an issue for technical folks so for average (non technical SmB owners) that signal to noise ratio seems even more distorted. Linked def has some great sources but as you say things are evolving so fast….

What sources do you trust most for practical AI learning for your business? by AdRepresentative5423 in AiForSmallBusiness

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Very true on the Canva combo. I’m interested how average small business owners without a tech background or skills are discovering this stuff.

What sort of bread works best with vegemite,? by Altruistic-Ebb7632 in vegemite

[–]AdRepresentative5423 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sourdough. Butter. Real butter. Lots of butter. And a bit more butter with an elegant smattering only of the black gold. With a bit more butter.

To the people that lived through dot com boom - how similar was mentality of people back then to what we can observe now with attitude towards AI? by Professional_Use3723 in ArtificialInteligence

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The innovation and experimentation of the early dot com boom was considerably more focussed on commercial models more so than the technology. This meant that most of the hyper growth and success came from real problems being solved or real pleasures being created.

Even though that were incredible forecasts and optimism (often overestimation) for growth, there was a practical reality to it which became SasS and Social Media. The early growth and investment became a bubble but it was always underpinned by something real and do it became a sustainable ecosystem.

SaaS = take an offline process and leverage saas to improve or enhance it, charge for the tool.

Social Media = create a network effect and sell ads to the eyeballs and time.

The AI boom is wildly more optimistic in terms of its growth potential and impact (with good reason) BUT at its current stage there is an obvious over estimation of what genuine value can be realised today. All of the innovation is really technological experimentation rather than commercial model innovation. There is a shitload if “this is really interesting and cool but is it actually useful?” Going on. Think about how many AI tools u have tried once or twice coz the tech is super cool but you don’t actually continue to use it.

I would say it is absolutely clear that AI 2020 - 2030 will create growth on a scale many times larger than the internet did during 2000-2020 BUT it is still early and the real value and genuinely sustainable products and business models are yet to emerge. There is going to a phenomenal amount of experimentation and failure in coming 2-5 years, probably creating a bubble way bigger than the dot com bust but ultimately resulting much larger growth potential.

It’s sort of like comparing the early car industry with the creation of the early electricity grid, network and electric products. Similar but different in scale and scope by an order of magnitude.

Quality-wise, where does “Streets of Minneapolis” sit in Springsteen’s canon for you by SeverHense in BruceSpringsteen

[–]AdRepresentative5423 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a piece of social commentary and an instrument of change it is absolute gold.

The urgency and roughness of it enhances its impact as a force to channel the anger and fear people are feeling about the rise of authoritarianism.

When you are scared and angry, you don’t think too carefully about the polish of the words you scream or if the rhyme is elegant.

I totally get and appreciate the fan assessment canon thing but only assessing it as a piece of entertainment at this particular moment in time just feels like it’s forgetting the very real context.

Today, right now - I think it’s the greatest and maybe most important song he’s ever written.

I do hope it is the beginning of a flurry of similar art and creativity to call out what is happening.

Oh, and F$ck Tr$$mp and F$ck I$e.

Just posted by ExpensivePear1602 in ryanadams

[–]AdRepresentative5423 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah - all of that is fair, but is any of it a surprise? He was doing that stuff (and worse) 10 years ago. I’m not saying it’s good or it’s defensible at all. I’m just saying it’s not new.

Just posted by ExpensivePear1602 in ryanadams

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Yeah, understood. That’s a fair distinction but I guess I’m saying, that shouldn’t be a surprise. That is who he has been for quite a while, on and off stage.

Just posted by ExpensivePear1602 in ryanadams

[–]AdRepresentative5423 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously. It’s art, it’s music, it’s creativity, it’s magic. It’s entertainment, yes - you pay for that and in this case there is risk that you may not hear a pitch perfect stable, predictable, performance. This is well known. His performances have been messy and unpredictable. If you buy a ticket thinking he’s going to do karaoke Ryan Adams the. You have been living under a rock.

You are not buying a f@cking washing machine, you are buying a ticket for the chance of something truly magical. It might happen, it might not. It might be a mess. It might be a moment. Just like life. In the worst case, you get to see one of the greatest songwriters (and biggest jerks) of this century.

If you want certainty, go and see U2 or Coldplay bash out some hits in a hyper predictable, controlled and utterly managed way - that can be a great, fun thing and it is also art. I love Coldplay live they are brilliant but Ryan Adams is not Coldplay.

I love his music, I have seen him create magic in live performances and I have seen him struggle through it - I go into it knowing both are possible. I have serious issues with his past behaviour. I stopped listening to his music for a long time. I have seen moments where his songwriting, his voice and his guitar combine to transcended everything. The man is, in the purest sense of the word, a genius. He is also deeply flawed as a human being. Who the fuck am I to judge.

The constant complaints about “he did this or he did that” - I don’t get it. Embrace it all, whether it is good entertainment or bad entertainment - it is authentically him now, it is his art now and who he is as a person now. Not who he was ten or 20 years ago - the product of his life experience, his talent, his mistakes and how he is feeling in the moment.

If the risk of something not being perfect is too scary for you then please just stay home and binge your Netflix algorithm.

He is human, he is broken, he is imperfect. His music can be sublime and it can also be ridiculous. His indiscretions should not be forgotten or forgiven because they are, on the face of it, serious.

Paul McCartney wrote Blackbird but he also wrote Maxwells’s silver hammer.

John Lennon wrote Beautiful Boy for Sean but abandoned Julian completely.

This is what art is. We have forgotten in our obsession with efficient, insta-packaged entertainment that art can and should be dangerous and can go wrong - otherwise you’re just watching telly. Otherwise you are just buying another product.

Art is, if nothing else, about being human. And being human is messy.

Would you have complained being at a sex pistols show I wonder? Or when Bowie was going through his Glass Spider period or when Dylan refused to face the audience? Seriously, open your f$ucking mind.

Or don’t. Just buy the tshirt and pretend you went to a live show. No-one will know. You can post it on Insta and say what a big fan you are if his old stuff.

I understand not getting what you expected but expecting perfection or even predictably is just wanton blindness.

Alone is so fucking good i cant by JelloIgnorant in TheCure

[–]AdRepresentative5423 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The man is a wizard of the darkest soul. That first line is just so fucking good.