Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. ✌️ Ocean. Mountains. Greens. Tech, brands & things worth building. @wtaleventures
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Patrick Donegan retweeted
This Father’s Day, call Dad into a never-ending set wave of surf storytelling. With a new 136-page issue delivered to his doorstep every eight weeks, he’ll be immersed year-round. Hit the link to give TSJ.
surfersjournal.com/give-a-gi…
Patrick Donegan retweeted
One of the great privileges of owning an independent company is that you get to try all sorts of stuff no one else would ever give you permission to do.
And you get to greenlight other people's oddball ideas too. You can — and should — provide cover for weird attempts, strange ideas, and "I mean this will probably never work but..." stuff. Often!
If you are in this position, and you aren't helping unusual things happen, you're missing out on one of life's true pleasures.
Public companies worth billions can't do the kinds of things you can. Businesses that need to justify every move can't do the things you can.
Very few get to do this, and you can. So please make the universe happy and see if that weird, unusual, not-like-everyone-else idea catches fire.
Patrick Donegan retweeted
Currently at WSJ Journal House listening to @DollyDeighton interview actor Josh Duhamel who started an agency called Dakota Media with co-Founder Josh Alagra. Most of their clients are Midwestern. Asked why:
“Midwestern clients pay the bills. Quiet brands have deep pockets.”
Patrick Donegan retweeted
I've been too long on the mainland
Hotels, rental cars, and phones
Time to cast 'em aside, catch the very next tide
And go BACK, where I belong
Some of us sailors call her home
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty…
Patrick Donegan retweeted
Coming in hot. TGJ No. 32 is now arriving worldwide.
📖: golfersjournal.com/issues/no…
Patrick Donegan retweeted
For enterprises going AI-first, the best way to think about AI is as a technology that increases output and accelerates timelines. Using AI to do what you already do, but cheaper, is a losing proposition. Eventually your competitors will just use it to do more and win.
Patrick Donegan retweeted
🌟 Editor's Choice 🌟
@patrickdonegan shares how SEI evolved its structure to empower employees while supporting growth. hubs.li/Q03kXSR20
#LeadershipStrategy #OrganizationalDesign #WorkplaceCulture #EmployeeEngagement #FutureOfWork
Patrick Donegan retweeted
They were the good investors, dealers in reality, patient. When the history of the rise and fall of America is written, one of the chapters will begin in Omaha, with their departure.
Patrick Donegan retweeted
It's just so insane. If Berkshire fell 99% tomorrow, Buffett still would have outperformed the S&P... by 41%!!
Greatest of all time.
Patrick Donegan retweeted
There’s never been someone like Warren, and countless people, myself included, have been inspired by his wisdom. It’s been one of the great privileges of my life to know him. And there’s no question that Warren is leaving Berkshire in great hands with Greg.
ALT Tim and Warren Buffett smile and stand side-by-side at Apple Park.
Patrick Donegan retweeted
The biggest mistake when thinking about AI Agents is to narrowly see them as replacing work that already gets done. The vast majority of AI Agents will be used to automate tasks that humans never got around to doing before because it was too expensive or time consuming.
Aaron Levie on why he thinks AI Doomers are WRONG about job replacement
@levie laid out his bullish stance on AI:
-- 90% new work creation 📈
-- 10% job replacement 🤖
"Most of our conversations with customers are, when they have AI agents, they can now go and actually deliver work in areas that would've been unaffordable previously."
"In the Valley, unfortunately, we've been co-opted somewhat with a little bit of a doomer mindset in some areas."
"And we think of then AI as, like, 'It's all fixed pie, it's gonna replace things.'"
"And on the ground with large enterprises, the vast majority of the use cases are, it's the ability to finally review the contracts that we never got around to reviewing."
"It's the ability to finally automate an invoice process that we never did."
"It's the ability to go in and just create marketing campaigns in every language that we never got around to."
"So I think that'll probably be actually like 90% of the usage of AI in the future will be things that if we look back and we snapped the line right now, and we said this is what knowledge work is today."
"90% of AI usage will be things that we don't do today."
"I don't like the word replace because I think most of the upside is actually gonna be for companies that now deploy labor at things that they wouldn't have deployed labor at before."
Patrick Donegan retweeted
He's somewhere on the ocean now
A place he outta be
With one hand on the starboard rail
He's wavin' back at me
Patrick Donegan retweeted
The Maritime Renaissance is well underway 🌊
So many cool projects going on at the intersection of hardware, software, and the 71% of Earth covered in water.
Check out a few particularly exciting ones! 👇🧵
(And if I missed you - let me know!)
Patrick Donegan retweeted
The most direct path to a fulfilling career is not to follow your passion. It's to follow your flow.
Flow is the state of full absorption. When you're in the zone, you don't even notice that you're enjoying it.
Intrinsic motivation lies in the activities where time disappears.
Patrick Donegan retweeted
I stopped searching for perfection
Many waves ago
What really matters is the here and now
And that's about all I know
Catch me a big old roller
Sun setting on the sea
Riding in on her glassy shoulder
The water going gray like me
