Krishna Kumar

“You get paid linearly for analyzing and solving problems. You get paid non-linearly for spotting and siezing opportunities.” ― Shane Parrish @farnamstreet

Human Agency in the Age of AI, a deep dive for accountants and finance professionals. @ImaKochi - 15 insights from working with leaders in AI. – at Kanayannur, India

I just published The Human Outside the Loop medium.com/@kkaction/the-hum…

Glad to have delivered an AI for Business workshop organised by TiE Kerala and Kerala Startup Mission. AI is a moving target, and there’s always something new to catch up with. – at Kanayannur, India

Prompt: Go to the internet and find out 30 extreme things people have done with Claude, not with Claude Code, but with normal Claude features. In a table, show what they have done and what is the prompt to do it. Mind is BLOWN.

Generate ideas that narrow specialists or generic models overlook.

Every creative breakthrough has intellectual ancestors.

The most dangerous failure of AI may not be disobedience, but perfect obedience to a dangerous instruction.

Mainstream narrative is behind trivia when the black swan event strikes. Always. – at Kanayannur, India

The real AI divide isn't between those who know how to use it and those who don't. It's between those who get to shape what comes next and those who are left to live with what others decide.

Society feels like AI is happening to them, not for them. It used to be that technology was like a train: all we had to do was get on and run into the promised land of progress. Now people feel like they're on the train tracks, and the train called AI is coming for them.

The worst place to be today: Employed, busy, and too distracted to learn AI. The best: Unemployed, curious, and free to reinvent yourself.

"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." - Edgar Watson Howe. – at Kanayannur, India

The gap between what AI can do and what we currently ask it to do may be larger than the gap between today's AI and tomorrow's AI.

Supporters remain loyal not only because they like their leader but because they compare the rewards of staying with the uncertainty of replacing that leader. - from book, The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics.

Available at Gumroad. Practical insights derived from 60+ enterprises. kkaction.gumroad.com/l/AINat…

Strategic laziness: waiting on difficult projects because a future AI will be able to one-shot it much before you would have completed the project yourself. - @paraschopra

More effort in an unsupportive situation isn't always the answer. Moving to a better environment may create more progress than endless self-correction.

Collaborating with @tiekerala and @startup_mission – at Kanayannur, India

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