Colin Savage

And that's where I studied English literature, I studied philosophy, I studied liberal art. Then I went to Japan and then I did a master's degree in modern Japanese literature. Okay, there's a little bit of a connection there with literature, but different cultures, different languages. Then I go to the UK and I do a master's degree in social anthropology in South D.C. learning Burmese.

And that's where I studied English literature, I studied philosophy, I studied liberal art. Then I went to Japan and then I did a master's degree in modern Japanese literature. Okay, there's a little bit of a connection there with literature, but different cultures, different languages. Then I go to the UK and I do a master's degree in social anthropology in South D.C. learning Burmese.

I lived in lots of countries, but that's where the interesting cultures, the people come from. I can back up again in hindsight, I can connect them, but they didn't really have a focus on building expertise. They were disjointed variety of individual levels or understanding and mastery of skills and discipline. And then I had to actually build pathways to connect.

I lived in lots of countries, but that's where the interesting cultures, the people come from. I can back up again in hindsight, I can connect them, but they didn't really have a focus on building expertise. They were disjointed variety of individual levels or understanding and mastery of skills and discipline. And then I had to actually build pathways to connect.

And one of the pathways that helped me do that was doing an MBA at Durham in the UK. And so I connected intersectional anthropology, I connected multi-generational stuff, and I connected performance management for business to figure out a metric to understand how to support multi-generational organizations with different levels of performance management and guidance. But it wasn't purposeful.

And one of the pathways that helped me do that was doing an MBA at Durham in the UK. And so I connected intersectional anthropology, I connected multi-generational stuff, and I connected performance management for business to figure out a metric to understand how to support multi-generational organizations with different levels of performance management and guidance. But it wasn't purposeful.

Fast forward a few years. Now we're into the pandemic. I'm living here in Canada. I'm sitting like most of us were in our own little home office. I'm going through things like LinkedIn learning in other places. And I'm noticing connectivity between, hey, what if I learn

Fast forward a few years. Now we're into the pandemic. I'm living here in Canada. I'm sitting like most of us were in our own little home office. I'm going through things like LinkedIn learning in other places. And I'm noticing connectivity between, hey, what if I learn

how to be better at doing online presentation and whatnot from the short course, then I can use the skills that I've learned as a lecturer to maybe coach it in-house in my company. So everybody will be better at sitting in virtual meetings.

how to be better at doing online presentation and whatnot from the short course, then I can use the skills that I've learned as a lecturer to maybe coach it in-house in my company. So everybody will be better at sitting in virtual meetings.

Hey, there's this new performance management tool online, because we're all living remotely, so we're worried about efficiency and all of those kinds of things. How could I learn the technology behind it to maybe adapt it so we can add it to the practices we have in comp, that are still a little bit traditional, paper-based. building and building and building.

Hey, there's this new performance management tool online, because we're all living remotely, so we're worried about efficiency and all of those kinds of things. How could I learn the technology behind it to maybe adapt it so we can add it to the practices we have in comp, that are still a little bit traditional, paper-based. building and building and building.

So what happened was I'm not entirely sure that stacking is the right word. I think it's more like staircase. And you've got overlapped half or a little bit more, but then you branch off into new areas. But you're constantly building it up. And now to round off my comment, now I'm learning for the last two years generative AI and the blurred large language model development.

So what happened was I'm not entirely sure that stacking is the right word. I think it's more like staircase. And you've got overlapped half or a little bit more, but then you branch off into new areas. But you're constantly building it up. And now to round off my comment, now I'm learning for the last two years generative AI and the blurred large language model development.

I've learned prop engineering, all those kind of things. But now that's actually connecting back in like almost reverse skills tracking with clear thought and clear writing. If you're not a good writer and you're not good at generating good writing, good step-by-step way to do something to build the proper prompt, it can't do what you want. It doesn't deliver what you would like.

I've learned prop engineering, all those kind of things. But now that's actually connecting back in like almost reverse skills tracking with clear thought and clear writing. If you're not a good writer and you're not good at generating good writing, good step-by-step way to do something to build the proper prompt, it can't do what you want. It doesn't deliver what you would like.

And so you'll spend extra time tweaking it and tailoring stuff to finally get to what you would like. But if you were good at writing, which comes from spending a lot of time in literature, And you're good at research, which helps you figure out the steps to be able to get the result you'd like.

And so you'll spend extra time tweaking it and tailoring stuff to finally get to what you would like. But if you were good at writing, which comes from spending a lot of time in literature, And you're good at research, which helps you figure out the steps to be able to get the result you'd like.

Combining those and learning how and understanding how in a generative AI particular and prompt engineering, the skill that you need to do it, you're stacking those or you're staircasing all of those, and you're going to be able to generate way better results in generative AI and other things.

Combining those and learning how and understanding how in a generative AI particular and prompt engineering, the skill that you need to do it, you're stacking those or you're staircasing all of those, and you're going to be able to generate way better results in generative AI and other things.