Are you ready for some Football?
Yesterday was the Cowboys' first preseason game.
It wasn't exactly the prettiest (partly because it was the first game of the season, but also because many of the starters sat the game out to avoid injury). With that said, it was still a fantastic experience. The NFL (and Jerry Jones) knows how to put on a show.
It's Easy to Feel Good at the Start of a Season.
Lots of people ask me how the Cowboys look this year. The truth is, at this point in the season, it's impossible to know because injuries have a dramatic impact on the game.
Regardless, each year I choose to be optimistic about the chance of a post-season run.
That kind of logic (or lack there of) is why I think automated trading is better than humans attempting to do it themselves. It's a way to make objective decisions and eliminate fear, greed, and discretionary mistakes.
On the other hand, it feels so good to hope!
A Lesson From the Game.
I had an interesting discussion at the game yesterday. My guest commented that Jerry Jones is a fantastic business person - which is hard to argue - but probably shouldn't be running the team. He believes the team needs a change of pace to switch things up.
While I don't know if that's why we tend to struggle so much more late in the season, it reminded me of a great business lesson.
Entrepreneurs often mistake their domain expertise for general expertise. "I'm fantastic because I'm fantastic at all these different things." And the result is they overestimate their ability to be great at things outside their unique ability. A similar issue is that many people believe they are deep thinkers, because they think deeply about what they think about. However, they often don't realize how narrow their range of thinking is, and how many things fall outside their expertise, interest, or even consideration.
Less Is Often More.
Learning to offload tasks that you may not be as fantastic at as others is a great way to free up time to focus on not only the things that you're great at – but also bring you joy and energy.
Hope that helps!
E.M.I.G.L.I.O: The Electronic Mechanical Industrial Generated For Logical Infiltration and Observation Robot
I have an old toy robot in my office that my kids played with when they were little. Its name is E.M.I.G.L.I.O.
Even though it is a toy, this Italian-made robot was interesting technology when it came out. It was remote-controlled, the remote had a microphone that transformed my voice to sound like a robot, and it had a tray sturdy enough to deliver a video game (or some other surprise) for my kids when they visited the office.
Looking back, it's barely even technology, let alone a robot. But that's because I'm evaluating it based on what's possible now.
I feel the same when I think about my previous company, IntellAgent Control, and what we considered A.I. in the 1990s. We made a sales automation solution for teams before tools like Salesforce existed. At the time, the decision logic we used was innovative. The premise is still valid today, but the technology and implementation scream "relic of a time gone by."
As another aside ... when I searched for Emiglio (in order to write this article), I was astonished by the archive of old robots someone had put together. The site is like a specialized Wikipedia site for toy robots. Each of the entries has high-quality photos of the robots and their packaging. It also includes facts, marketing copy, ads, and patents.
It is kind of cool ... Kind of like Emiglio.
It got me thinking about how much of history - and esoteric knowledge - only exists because a tiny community of people decided it needed to be cataloged or preserved.
Garbage In – Garbage Out. Nothing In – Nothing Out. What are we missing from the past because history is often written by the winner (or because no one volunteered to chronicle what happened)?
Even a site like Wikipedia has some serious content curation issues. For example, the top 50 Wikipedia editors have each contributed more than 500,000 edits. Think how much is missing.
Soon A.I. will decide what to write about what it decided happened, what to save and for how long, and what to say when asked about it.
Not only will the future be different ... even the past will be remembered differently.
Just a thought!
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