Embracing the Mess
AI can master discrete tasks. But judgment, relationships and responsibility are messy—and that may be exactly where humans matter most
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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What Happened to Just Being Stupid?
The young professionals who don't want AI to think for them
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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay
Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research
Forks in the Road
What happens when progress stops asking for permission?
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Living with Technology and AI
FF Life: Getting Hands-On with AI
Five curated stories on how and why to begin experimenting with AI
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Founding Fuel
·Living with Technology and AI
FF Life: GPT-4 and ChatAI could be your digital genie
They could be your personal librarian and a digital assistant that can translate, summarise, and even help you learn a new language
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
FF Life: Focus
July 15, 2023: How to filter out distractions
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Books, Music & Film
My six summer must-read books of 2023
FF Life: My choice of the 2023 summer books is reflective of the times we live in and the key topics on executives’ minds
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Personal Reinvention
FF Life: Collect & Connect — managing information overload
How Obsidian is helping me save ideas and tonnes of information, and also retrieve it and see connections and patterns
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
FF Life: The future of office and work
February 11, 2023: Futurist Bob Johansen on work, our lives, and what we ought to prepare for
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Living with Technology and AI
FF Life: Getting AI tools to work for you
January 28, 2023: We tried it to write better, convert text to speech, enhance background scores in podcasts, and generate pictures
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Founding Fuel
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