James Smith
@jws7
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Group PM at Google, Dad, Product Management practitioner
London
Joined August 2008
Google just dropped a 100% free learning path on Generative AI with 9 Courses 👇 Intro to Gen AI Intro to LLMs Intro to Responsible AI Intro to Image Generation Encoder-Decoder Attention Mechanism Transformers and BERT Image Captioning Gen AI Studio https://t.co/cyojw6P4Tm
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Learn and earn with Google Skills, a platform that provides free training and certifications for Google Cloud partners and beginners. Explore now.
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I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.
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I asked ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless:
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28 short pieces of life advice: 1. Block off 90 minutes in your calendar every morning to work on the most important thing. Wake up early if you need to. Don’t compromise.
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That time when we showed the Queen how to get driving directions to Windsor Castle on an early version of Google Maps for phones. The Queen was super curious and engaging. My first & last royal focus group! Circa 2008.
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My Product Manager Operating System (PMOS) The 9 templates and frameworks I've found super valuable in 10+ years of building and growing products. Adopted from Basecamp, Amazon, and more. A thread 🧵
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Early career years are painful. You feel like an idiot 98% of the time - lost, confused and insecure. I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first job. So I put one together. Here are 20 things about building a career I wish I knew sooner:
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A trip down memory lane...exactly 23 years ago Google signed its first datacenter contract. Let's walk through the lease in a thread. First, the copy you see here was sent by a "fax machine" which was something people used back then.
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Bootstrapping a software company is the best way work for yourself and build wealth Jason Cohen is an entrepreneur who has grown 4 (!) software companies from 0 to >$1m in rev His largest (WP Engine) does >$100m in revenue Here's his exact plan on how to bootstrap startups 👇
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In less than 2 years, Disney+ notched 104m subscribers and is prob worth $100B+ as a standalone entity. How did Disney build a Netflix competitor so fast? By acquiring a tech firm spun out from MLB (yes, Major League Baseball) for $2.6B. Here's the story 🧵
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It took two days to develop Moderna's vaccine and eleven months (1.5M deaths) for a truck containing the first batch of doses to leave the factory. The above is wildly under-explained, under-researched, under-investigated, under-discussed.
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Another victory for the great @LewisHamilton. The goat on 4 wheels. 🐐
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Very proud that our @GoogleAI team has achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy after over a decade of work, as published in @Nature. Thank you to our collaborators in the research community who helped make this possible. https://t.co/yZUUbZsyA0
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Posted by John Martinis, Chief Scientist Quantum Hardware and Sergio Boixo, Chief Scientist Quantum Computing Theory, Google AI Quantum Physicist...
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Proud to rep America’s best team! Congrats @USWNT and thanks for being such a strong inspiration for women and girls—and everybody—all across the country.
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