The power of radical transparency in the world of AI
Dear friends,Every week, I’m sharing an essay that relates to what we are building and learning at Alan. Those essays are fed by the article I’m lucky enough to read and capitalise on. I’m going to try to be provocative in those essays to trigger a discussion with the community. Please answer, comment, and ping me! If you are not subscribed yet, it's right here! If you like it, please share it on social networks! Radical transparency has been a key tenet of our culture since the beginning of Alan. It made sense at the time as it allowed information to flow, and we could roughly all comprehend everything that was happening. Quickly, there was more information than what’s humanly possible to absorb. Some companies resort to a push solution: they editorialize the information shared with the team. You only get to know what was decided as useful for you. We decided on a radically different solution, the pull one: you get access to all information, and you’re the one to decide on what’s important to you. That gives every single Alaner more power to get updated and understand the great picture, so they can do their best work and grow faster cross-functionally. This is partially why we are doing things like the weekly Pulse. On the other hand, that requires discipline: you need to be able to filter your channels of information. You can’t be always on. Then there was too much information to even look up. Search engines are limited. It may be hard to find what you can’t easily express. That’s where AI comes in. Thanks to our writing culture and our radical transparency, a tool like Dust becomes very powerful: you can ask just about anything that happened at Alan and get an answer. Information is power. And thanks to our culture and to AI, we are all more powerful, and we need to preserve that by making sure we document everything we can! Some articles I have read this week👉Health: are we definitely going to run out of doctors? (Le Figaro)
👉 Inflection AI co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave, on tomorrow’s interactive artificial intelligence
👉 AI Agenda: Be Like Microsoft: How OpenAI Customers Bend the Rules to Save Money (The Information)
👉 An Interview with Eric Seufert About Streaming Advertising, Generative AI, and Marketing Automation (Stratcherry)
👉 Adding a Paid Tier to The Split + Launching a Podcast (The Split)
👉 Milestones: What to be ready for (Matt Mochary)
👉 Mental well-being by Zak Williams (Prepare Your Mind)
👉 Inside OpenAI: How does ChatGPT Ship So Quickly? (The Pragmatic Engineer)
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