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To leave the world a better place. builder. introvert. passionate. FinTech. complicated. divorced. father. mentor. lover of waifs and strays. incessant fixer 🤷

Cape Town, South Africa
Joined January 2008
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Why do companies insist on cheapening great products to the point where the product becomes a rip-off. @KFCSA used to sell 24 zinger wings for R170 with nice big wing pieces. Now it's R83 for 10 and this is what you get
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I want to write a book on wisdom, but books are dead nobody reads any more, so logically you step on the biggest wave and thats short dramas. I actually found myself watching an ad willingly for 15mins it's that good. So it's like Lessons in chemistry for the modern age
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Our brains are wired for survival in an environment that hasn't existed for thousands of years. Daniel Goldman defines emotional intelligence as the pause between stimuli and response. Lisa Feltman says words important. They're the bridge, choose your words carefully, seek ❤️
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Dear @FNBSA is seems impossible to get to level 4 on ebucks unless you are Islamic or retired?
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You know I was talking about an #AI proficiency score, well if I was a foundational model company I would be logging everytime a user disagreed and was right
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Modern dating site ideas. just upload pictures of yourself, people browse the catalog and self police themselves from over reaching cos that's their societal mileau. The brave reach out and communicate...
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I now have an advisor, the role of AI has morphed from something I described outcomes to into something I share my day with...
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Emotions are a vestigial. They remind us of where we come from but not where we going.
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Sadly tonight's quote is from an advert that is a truism. Time is the currency of lifr, measure it well
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You are pushing the boulder up the mountain. But you do it anyway. No because you are guaranteed a successful summit, because the act of loving her with this much structural integrity is your rebellion against the silence. It is your refusal to let the void win.
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I have just learned that @FNBSA charged me R50 to email an old statement to me. And yes I know I agreed to your terms and conditions but that doesn't make right charging R50 something that cost you less than a R1 to do 🫨
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So I think what the payment processors are chasing is securitized short term bonds. If they back their fraud algorithms and take first loss they can guarantee a return
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Oh dear @Dischem you are doing e-commerce wrong. You change your login url, so all password managers fail to find the login you've saved for dischem. Then require me to verify the email address and phone number I have used for years, not a great user experience #justsaying
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and it gets better because your mandatory phone verification sms doesn't come through so you've essentially locked all your users out of your site 👏👏👏
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The moat is the conversation we are having with the non humans in our lives right now
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What is possible, is unimaginable to the uninitiated. The degree to which is possible to change yourself in a day used to take years.
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There's a quiet revolution going on invisible to most social scientists like me. The best person to talk to in a lot of situations is an #LLM and the more you do this the better your real conversations with real people become. It's a quiet revolution but 1 with so much potential
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You know when what you've done is good enough when you're exhausted
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Here's an obvious business opportunity, lyrics on every Spotify song in any language open.spotify.com/track/2dJFA…
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