Perspectives
"Leaders from governments, civil society and the private sector have a moral, ethical and societal duty to make sure that artificial intelligence is adopted and advanced in a way that protects the public from harm, while ensuring everyone is able to enjoy its full benefit."
--Kamala Harris, 49th Vice President of United States (2024)
In 2022 2-Dooz announced the Resilience Challenge, a fundraiser to support veterans participating in a clinical study that explores the relationship between stress and suicidal ideation. The raised funds are being used to compensate veterans for their time commitment to the study and for study equipment that enables their participation.
The announcement of the challenge was met with a lot of positive feedback, but one long-time friend and former coworker asked me a question that gave me pause: "Why are you doing this?"
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Keywords: tech companies, social responsibility, veterans, suicide prevention, resilience, leadership
“Man’s—often wrong but generally useful— psychological tendencies are quite numerous and quite different.”
--Charlie Munger, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
Billionaire investor Charlie Munger was keenly interested in what drives human behavior. Together with his business partner Warren Buffet, he helped to build Birkshire Hathaway into one of the largest and most successful corporations of all time—valued at a market capitalization of nearly 777 billion dollars at the time of his passing. Munger’s acute understanding of human motivation undoubtedly contributed to his investing success. Fortunately for us, in 2005, he collected his thoughts on human tendencies in an essay titled, “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment,” which in his words is a “magnum opus on why we behave the way we do.”
Here I present Munger’s collective insights in a manner that I hope is more appealing to a broader, younger audience; one that is prone to ignore any advice coming from an "old" guy, even one as successful as Munger. This Psychology of Human Misjudgment Remix is a contemporary retelling of Munger's essay, utilizing the musical musings of Beyonce, Rihanna, and Taylor Swift to amplify the presentation.
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Keywords: Charlie Munger, Beyonce, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, human tendencies, misjudgment
“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
--Luke 12:48
Well, it didn’t exactly quote Luke. But that is the gist of it.
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Keywords: generative AI, Bard, tech industry, social value creation, Top 10 List, purpose and profits