Hey Friends, here’s a selection of four interesting things this week and a quote I’ve been musing this week.

Interesting Things

App-Notion

I’ve been experimenting with several different apps to manage projects, studying, research and business lines of effort. I keep wandering back to Notion. I’m not sponsored by them I just genuinely enjoy the app and their recent improvements to performance.

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Harvard Business Review on Strategy (for business)

HBR business review is a gem of a channel as I work on the startup. Here’s a great resource on understanding the difference between a plan and a strategy (hint, there’s no such thing as a strategic plan). A strategy is a “doable and coherent” theory on why our organization is playing in the setting we’ve chosen, and how we’re going to be better than anyone else at serving those consumers in that setting.

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Building a Red Team Infrastructure in 2023

Regardless of your role in the organization, from analyst to operator, from manager to executive, you should understand the importance of understanding and assessing your security defenses. This post discusses what requirements to meet, components of infrastructure, what components/software, and how to set them up to maximize your efforts. It’s worth a look as a leader.

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A.I. Created Religions?

There are as many opinions about the benefits and detriments of A.I. as there are people to talk about A.I. This concept (and the excerpt below) merits a deeper thought discussion. I found the topic originally on the Times, but I’m not paying for a subscription, so the link I’m using is Israel’s Times. Same topic, same Yuval Harari, same quotes, different author, and a lack of paywall.

“For thousands of years, prophets and poets and politicians have used language and storytelling in order to manipulate and to control people and to reshape society…Now AI is likely to be able to do it. And once it can… it doesn’t need to send killer robots to shoot us. It can get humans to pull the trigger.”

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Quote I’m Musing

“I cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make them think.”

-Socrates

Side note: This is attributed to Socrates (like many things). I have no evidence that it was formally his words.

I don’t think it’s important to be 100% right or prove something 100% wrong. There’s always room to improve and find the things of value in an idea. The world isn’t binary, despite what many would have you believe. I don’t try; my goal is to spur active curiosity in the subjects and make people think for themselves.

If the topic is valuable to you, keep it. Think on it, apply it to your own context. If not, let it go.

Share your ideas and experiences. Test them in the crucible of debate.

Welcome challenges to your way of thinking, challenge others. Make sure you don’t live in an echo chamber and remember that discussion and challenge is supposed to be a happy endeavor. The point isn’t to be right; the point is to get it right.

I would love your feedback!

Which musing is your favorite? What else do you want to see or what should I eliminate? Any other suggestions? Just send a tweet to @erichaupt on Twitter and put #SundayMusings at the end so I can find it. Or, eric@erichaupt.com for long form email.

Have a wonderful week, I’ll see you Sunday.
-e