Tabrez Syed
mandalivia.com
Tabrez Syed
@mandalivia.com
Ask Not What Your Customers Think of You, But What Their AI Thinks of You

How to thrive when AI systems, not customers, decide who makes the shortlist

open.substack.com/pub/boxcarsa...
Ask Not What Your Customers Think of You, But What Their AI Thinks of You
How to thrive when AI systems, not customers, decide who makes the shortlist
open.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
You don't have to be great to get started
But you have to start to be great

Zig Ziglar

#gettingstarted
March 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Why does Jevon's paradox work? Here is an exploration on the forces behind the expanding universe of work #FutureofWork #AIEconomics

blog.boxcars.ai/p/new-work-f...
New Work, Fewer Jobs: Four Forces Behind AI's Creative Destruction
Exploring four forces that drive the expansion of types of work
blog.boxcars.ai
February 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🧵 A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

Back in 1998, a networth of $1M would have put you in the top 5%.

Today, you need $4M.

Here are key stats from @dollarsanddata's latest article:

#PersonalFinance #Wealth
February 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🧵 Are books written or discovered?

The Library of Babel contains every possible book - including ones not written yet.

Here's why this is mathematically true.

#Writing #AI
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Interested in Open Health? Keeping your own records? And maybe using local AI to work with your health records?

Here are two useful OSS projects:

github.com/fastenhealth...
[Brings back records from providers]

github.com/OpenHealthFo...
[Local AI Health Asst]

#AI #Privacy #HealthCare
GitHub - fastenhealth/fasten-onprem: Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics
Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics - fastenhealth/fasten-onprem
github.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🧵 One of the earliest examples of data-driven decision making came from an unexpected source: a nurse in 1855.

Florence Nightingale showed how data could drive real change.

#Leadership #Analytics
February 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🧵 Sometimes our biggest breakthroughs come from questioning what we "know." In 1906, a doctor's systematic investigation revealed something that challenged a fundamental assumption about disease. #Innovation #Research
February 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🧵 Being first isn't enough. The story of how Oreos won by getting better. #ProductStrategy #Innovation
February 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🧵 Are LLMs like CPUs or Operating Systems? This mental model could determine the future of your software business... 🤔 (1/5)
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🧵 Does technology eradicate jobs, or transform them? When VisiCalc launched in 1979, spreadsheets didn't just disrupt accounting—they redefined it. (1/4)
January 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🧵 "You can't sell horseshoes to people who don't own horses" - a reminder for companies rushing to add AI features to existing products... 🤔 (1/4)
January 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🧵 "A lightbulb is not a brighter candle" - This simple insight explains why some of our biggest technological leaps required completely new ways of thinking... (1/4)
January 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🧵 Feeling fuzzy-headed on your first day back after break? Your brain might be doing exactly what it's supposed to. Let me tell you about an Arctic animal that proves it... (1/5)
January 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🧵 Got a tough problem? Try asking "why" five times. It sounds simple, but it helped solve a mystery at the Lincoln Memorial! (1/5)
December 28, 2024 at 11:29 AM
🧵 Decimal points seem tiny, but put one in the wrong place and things can get expensive! An Italian airline lost millions because of a misplaced dot? (1/5)
December 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
🧵 You're probably looking forward to the weekend. But the idea of Saturday and Sunday off isn't the same everywhere. In many Muslim countries and Israel, for example, the weekend falls on Friday and Saturday. (1/5)
December 25, 2024 at 11:28 AM
🧵 Ever wonder how a good story can keep you hooked? It's a trick storytellers have used for centuries. Let me tell you about Scheherazade from "The 1001 Nights"... (1/5)
December 18, 2024 at 4:40 PM
🧵 Here's a puzzle nature had to solve: How do you design a bird that needs to hover in front of flowers but can't have big wings? The answer changed everything we knew about flight. (1/5)
December 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM