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How I learnt to run my own personal AI

By now most people have tried or at least heard of ChatGPT. It is now relatively easy to run your own AI instance on your own machine.


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How I learnt about not compromising

I have just finished re-reading the book The Spark, a fictional account of a sports agent and his journey to learn about Cirque de Soleil from the inside.


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How I learnt to pick ideas that win

I come up with lots of ideas for potential applications, businesses, stories and random other things.


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Capturing decisions and those involved

My role has changed recently to include another team. This has also included more interaction with other areas of the business and also the management team.


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Breaking things down

A task can often look too big to tackle. It can become very daunting even in deciding where to start.


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Decisions with a cost

Sometimes a decision comes with a cost, a sacrifice.

In the book Leaders Eat Last Simon Sinek says:


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Simple tips can make a difference

When I grew up I had an old 35mm Praktica camera that was given to me. I purchased some lenses for it and mostly used it to take pictures of the Somerset cricket matches I went to watch.


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Turbo Pascal is 40

Turbo Pascal is 40 years old and it had a big impact on the direction of my career.


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Assumptions can be dangerous

There is a quote “A backup is not a backup unless you have recently performed a restore from it”; I got to find this out the hard way.


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Document your house

We have manuals and guides for the software we use. We have a manual for the car we drive. Why not the house?


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