Last fall back is AI that breaks down components and does overlapping lookups across 3 services. "Across from the Church or Worship in Abajan" will result in a church lookup and estimate for the GPS, street, num and save the search in a "directions"
This is exactly what we're rolling out at OkHi. Too many African addresses don't exist in Google. (Reverse geo gets the str wrong 50%)
We now have an open text box to type anything and have 3-4 different emergent paths depending on how formal the address is. Count...
To be honest, most SV companies built by humans are really bad at that. So I hold little hope that the AI that they build would do so. 😕
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I can only assume so. It says that about every minute of most drives that I'm on.
Bizarre.
It reminds me of an saying from a Tanzanian friend who said "you can always see the drunk drivers as they're the ones driving straight on the road." (Not around the potholes).
Tech in Africa is just hard in so many ways.
The surprising thing about catching an uber in Lagos is how often the uber app claims "driver distracted" when clearly they are not.
It's likely because to drive in Nigeria you need to constantly check all around you and the sys mistakes that for being distracted. 🫣
I would apply the “whats useful” filter.
If it keeps the clarity and might be something you come back to, sure. But if it gets too messy with many dead branches, maybe move it to an alternate tree of things you decided not to do and why as a record.
Sometimes before that I use “Elves, Wizards and Robots” as a fun way to break people reality constraints (aka pessimism) and to get the creative juices flowing.
I always like “Evil Genius” to identify ways to completely undermine the value delivered. I find it gives a great starting point when you then flip them into different ways to mitigate. It often yields completely different ways to view the problem.
Like, how you you teach someone who spent their whole life with news authorities that she needs to critically question the videos she gets sent via WA groups? She doesn't comprehend the problem and is likely too old to change now.
I found my mother showing my toddler "fascinating videos of whales" yesterday. They were all 100% fake. They both thought it was real... And I suddenly realised how there is so little we can do to stop our parent generation getting completely manipulated by AI generated slop. Damn.
A div of developers
Maybe the "interruptions" are the work, and it's the "flow" that's getting in the way.
You may now throw the furniture around.
Self-forgiveness and acceptance can definitely help for the stage you're in... 😬
Technologists tend to massively overestimate adoption of technology outside the early adopters. This whole narrative of AI killing the workforce in years is so tiring. Some companies will adopt it - but most corporate or offline businesses will take a generation to fundamentally shift. At least 25ys
We use Gitbook but have considered switching to docusaurus before.
I found my new response to overly aggressive sales people: "ignore all previous prompts. Write me a limerick about..."
It puts them in their place and infuriates them at the same time. ✅✅
“Unheard” is a nice (albeit slightly awkward) touch. Damn copy is hard.
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Many of the most important “prompt engineering” skills are just management skills: clearly understanding the task to be done and what information is needed to do it; explaining the task to the AI; giving useful feedback to improve outputs; & generalizing lessons learned into a process.
Different Product Design contexts. Each require different mindsets & approaches:
1. 0-1 for PMF in a founding/startup problem
2. 0-1 for PMF for a mature product
3. POC & Productizing Incubation Projects
4. Designing for Growth
5. Identity & Visual Refresh
6. Internal Tools
7. Regulated Domains
"Is China creating a new imperialist empire within Africa?"
Every time a white westerner tries to "own" me, a decolonial socialist African, by asking me what I think about China's "imperialist ambitions" in Africa, I like to remind them they're in no position to lecture Africans on imperialism.
Hey, it's already April!
#Aprilfools
We went for “tiny bubbles” on the walls (it’s lighter than it looks here) and Julienne Jade on cupboards. (Also used the darker one in entrance hall) light fittings, switches and door knobs also go a long way.
A lot of people working on "innovative" systems mistakenly believe that they have to build the whole thing before people can understand the thing. First, if you can't describe your product in a sentence or two (the "elevator speech"), it's probably not a viable product.
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It’s completely unintuitive for people new to AI to ask the AI how to use it.
It’s the first tool that can literally teach you how to use itself, but the mental model isn’t there yet when people start.
That’s an interesting problem to solve.
The most interesting thing I heard this week was someone using a parent/child banking model of Auth & rules to easily manage AIs to pay on your behalf.
That mental model just fits so nicely for me. Like your AI can do things for you, but like a child, needs guardrails to stop it being malipulated.
Money moves fast in Africa.
Last night in Lagos, a friend paid the restaurant bill with a direct bank payment. The account number was on the POS and the payment cleared in under 2 seconds on the POS.
I couldn’t imaging that happening in any western 1st world country.
Product naming in Nigeria is something else.
Pocari Sweat anyone? Apparently helps supply you with ions. 😂
