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I wrote an essay: Knowledge bases and why they never work Enjoy. Let me know what you think. An evening stroll I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the magpie “Good morning magpie”, I said “Good morning”, the magpie said “I LOOOOOVE GOLD”, the magpie said “I LOOOVE SHINY THINGS”, the magpie said “I LOVE GOLD AND SHINY THINGS AND ALUMINUM FOIL AND SILVER AS WELL AND …”, ...
A wonderful edition again this time. There is GTM and parking lots. I’m back on LinkedIn, apple juice and environmental landscape risk. Enjoy. An evening stroll I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the caterpillar “Good morning caterpillar”, I said “Good morning”, the caterpillar mumbled “Are you okay caterpillar?”, I asked “Not really, no”, the caterpillar said “I ran into this butterfly”, she said, “and he was a complete knob” ...
Since 2015, I have been intimidated, envious and inspired by Brett Victors bookshelf. I have a list of books to buy called “Brett Victor” and I have always dreamed of having my own bookshelf. arjens books And I had one … An evening stroll I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the koala “Oh lord please, not a koala”, I thought “Good morning koala”, I said “Good morning”, the koala said ...
Nobody: “Arjen, you need to add more visuals.” Me: “Okay” how it started I deployed v0.1 of my Environmental Supply Chain Risk Radar, a quarterly decision radar for navigating environmental risk in global supply chains. product page best on a laptop but works on mobile as well Imagine you’re an understaffed sustainability manager with a limited budget at a large corporation. You need to keep an overview of everything “sustainable” for multiple global commodity supply chains, multiple environmental risks, upcoming rules and regulations, latest industry best practices and responses and a plethora of intelligence providers. That was impossible. Until now. ...
Super Humans and Super AI I had an issue with my buttondown newsletter. I wrote to support. Got an automated reply telling me they got my mail, they are looking into the issue but since they only have limited staff, working in a US time zone, it might take a bit for a proper reply. Within 1 hour, Steph is in my inbox, kindly explaining the issue and how they would resolve it. I said thank you for the quick answer Steph and for being a kind human Steph and Steph said no problem arjen, we don’t like talking to chatbots, and we don’t want to make you all deal with them either. <3 (<- I got that one from the emoji museum). ...