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Harley Finkelstein

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1851 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

Something is off here.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

There's no balance here.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

For me, my calendar needs to look like a rainbow.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

If it looks like a rainbow, I know that I have this balance, like, that I am myself I'm looking for.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

He actually said something slightly different, which he said that if you were not using AI reflexively,

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

which is a very interesting term to use, right?

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

By default is one thing, reflexively is different, meaning in your jobs, everyone that's listening and watching, when you have a problem that you're working on, a challenge, a project, are you reflexively thinking about what tool exists right now that I can pull down to help me do my job better?

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And that's, I mean, that memo obviously got leaked.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

It was an internal memo that he sent to the whole team.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And he's done this before.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

I mean, you know, historically, I guess, quasi famously, he did a memo about Shopify mobile, that like, we were still living kind of in like the desktop world.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And it was clear that e commerce in particular was moving more to a mobile device, that more traffic was coming in.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

But Shopify was still building kind of in this like web browser based, you know, desktop world.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And so he wrote this, he wrote a memo to the company.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And eventually it also got leaked.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

So maybe the story here is that a lot of things when you're a big company, you're getting leaked.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

But it was an important memo because it was a reminder to the company that like, look, this isn't just some random new tool.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

This is a new type of programming language.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

This is a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we all work.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And whether you are...