The Happy Jōb Records

Is everyone less competent these days? Is that a crisis? How does one measure such things anyway? Find none of the answers to these questions and more in today's episode. 2m 5s Go find Sebastian Maniscalco’s masterclass on quoting repair work: “buff it out” 12m 50s Terry introduces the Competency Crisis for the first and not last time. 28m 15s Intergenerational trash talk might be timeless, but th...

This one will go down as "The Kenny G Episode" because it's about knowing who you're playing to. 7m 31s: Terry paraphrases Andrew Ng - You don't scale solutions (services) you scale tools. 28m 25s: Its not rocket science. It's *data* science! 29m 12s: The computer-brain behind targeted ads figured out a teenager was pregnant before her dad, which the internet had a field day with in 2012. 30m 8s:...

0h 28m Robotics wizard Rodney Brooks makes bold claims about the future, then actually revisits to see how wrong he was. 0h 32m: "Bowling Alone" is a seminal book on the collapse of social institutions in American as they are replaced with millions of people (figuratively?) going to bowling alleys by themselves. 0h 37m : DALL-E is an AI that makes nightmarish generated artworks and spawned a thous...

The threat of AI taking over society is probably overblown, but the threat of conversations about the threat of AI taking over society is very real.