Just Thoughts #24: Why Your Kids NEED to Watch the Olympics and Unlock the Secrets to Leadership Development!

Discover the surprising benefits of Olympic screentime and learn how to implement a powerful leadership framework in your organization.

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2. The Bear Season Three in Review

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Kids watching The Olympics

We’ve been watching the Olympics with my kids this week, and going into it, I figured there would be no “screen time” limits when it comes to the Olympics. If they watch sports on the TV a bit “too much” every other year (winter & summer), the worst that could happen is that they’d get inspired about some sport that is super hard to support. It’s easy to make this exception to the one-hour screen time limit a day when it’s an event that happens so seldom.

I also realized my kids hadn’t seen female athletes in different sports, so the only rule is that every minute spent on either gender should be equally spent on the other. I might also have to roll this over to the Paralympics; based on the excitement so far, they’ll be equally excited to watch that.

Finally, as you have no clue how each sport is played, or its rules and your kids have a never-ending stream of questions, it's nice to have you [insert LLM of choice] as your in-pocket “expert advisor.” Someone should start broadcasting sports with an LLM-infused “extra commentator.” Why would the lead commentator ever have to remember anything when it can just live prompt the “LLM avatar” to add details to the discussion? The first one to do this on social media will go viral. The key is not to ultimately try to substitute someone like the Google Gemini advertisement. That didn’t land well. They should’ve teamed up with a few social influencers that cover sports to run what I explained above, which would’ve made for funnier content, covering a more approachable use case for the Olympics.

The Bear Season Three in Review

I covered the review of my sentiments in Just Thoughts #23 of the series until the end of season two. I binged season three only to realize I didn’t guess what happened, as it will continue with another season. Every episode was short in itself, as it was building up the characters more than following the main storyline. Anyone going into labor soon should watch episode eight without fearing getting any critical spoilers if you want to watch the rest of the series.

The last episode encapsulates the “purpose” behind the restaurant industry and, maybe, more specifically, the fine dining industry. Food connects people and brings them together. At best, you get to celebrate significant occasions and sometimes even be a part of family celebrations. I think that is why I like cooking. In addition, when you cook someone a meal, you have invested time in creating something concrete and done right for the right reasons; it’s a demonstration of love. Try substituting that with AI.

The 175 Trillion dollar question

Nvidia added 330 Billion to its market cap in a single day. Shout out to

Linas Beliūnas

for entering my feed with that one. What boggles my mind more than that is America's 175 Trillion dollar problem as described by

Balaji

. I’m as good with finance as a donkey on a race track; it’s awkward to watch after you pass the point of borderline funny. Hence, I won’t try to break this down for you more than the article already does.

However, a thought crossed my mind. The article labels our current times as “peacetime,” which feels like an inaccurate label when governments are pouring billions to support Ukraine and the U.S. backing up players in the Middle East. As we’ve learned in history class, war today differs significantly from how wars are fought in today’s global interconnected environment.

Nonetheless, I’m bringing up Balaji’s article as I dropped some remarks about Trump advocating for Bitcoin in last week’s writings and that being a supportive cause for the Russian war efforts. While watching M. Saylor describe Bitcoin as an asset class and what it would mean if nations would start “taking this seriously,” it could be a viable way to get yourself out of the 175 Trillion dollar debt. Albeit, Saylor uses a number closer to 50 Trillion when describing the size of the U.S. debt in his speech.

What I’m taking away from this talk is the remark about how AIs may perceive Bitcoin as an asset class. Based on the narrative, he says that when AI starts making savings decisions based on all available information, why wouldn’t it buy Bitcoin and nothing else when the goal is to preserve value?

When you look at how long different assets hold value, digital assets are in a league of their own; the rest reflect an average value that resembles human lifespans, and I think there is a crux. AI, unlike humans, will be able to operate with complete disregard for the relationship single individuals have with death. However, what will happen when we can start significantly manipulating average lifespans?

The question diverges us into a fundamental question: what decisions do you make in complete disregard of how long you’ll live, and what decisions do you make based on the fact we all die someday? A decision-making categorization that determines what kind of leader you are.

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