118: Don't put all your lettuce in one carriage

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/fc/a5/55/fca55530-73b0-cc47-d873-223409279644/mza_12203032758108390551.jpeg/600x600bb.jpg

Tentacles - the podcast from Crown & Reach

Tom Kerwin

22 episodes

1 day ago

Hi, we’re Tom and Corissa from Crown & Reach, and this is Tentacles.

With over 100 episodes behind us, this might just be the best bad podcast out there. Unfiltered, unedited, and deeply curious.

We talk strategy, sense-making, and the blurry edges between work and the rest of life — because sometimes, the only way through the fog is to feel your way forward, limbs outstretched.

While we're migrating podcasts across, you can find all the goodness from our first 100 or so episodes here: https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All content for Tentacles - the podcast from Crown & Reach is the property of Tom Kerwin and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Hi, we’re Tom and Corissa from Crown & Reach, and this is Tentacles.

With over 100 episodes behind us, this might just be the best bad podcast out there. Unfiltered, unedited, and deeply curious.

We talk strategy, sense-making, and the blurry edges between work and the rest of life — because sometimes, the only way through the fog is to feel your way forward, limbs outstretched.

While we're migrating podcasts across, you can find all the goodness from our first 100 or so episodes here: https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

118: Don't put all your lettuce in one carriage

Tentacles - the podcast from Crown & Reach

37 minutes 58 seconds

2 months ago

118: Don't put all your lettuce in one carriage

What does a failed lettuce shipment from a Steinbeck novel have to do with your AI strategy? Everything, as it turns out.

In this one, we're doing it, we're stepping into the world of AI adoption. I mean, surely someone should start talking about this AI thing?

Ahem.

We talk about why a bunch of what companies are doing with AI is ruinous efficiency theatre – and what they oughta learn from a hapless lettuce entrepreneur out of classic novel East of Eden.

We explore the parallels between infrastructure booms (railroads then, AI now), why 70% of companies see zero efficiency gains from AI, and how to avoid becoming the laughing stock of your industry.

The "lettuce man paradox" - when you're right but early, you're wrong
How 20% of bees ignore the waggle dance (and why you should too)
The antifragile barbell strategy: boring investments + wild experiments
Tom's "expert panel of dissenters" AI prompt that will tear your ideas apart (in the best way)
Why setting up a fence around a playground is more important than setting up goals and objectives
Container ships, steel plants, graphics chips and compute: what to do with what gets left behind after boom-bust cycles

References:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dave Snowden's Ritual Dissent method https://cynefin.io/wiki/Ritual_dissent
Ken Stanley's Myth of the Objective (playground thinking) https://youtu.be/VDuF4onPmuE?si=4vEfNLBIZyaDvB4h
Strathern's reframing of Goodhart's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Adam Mastroianni (of Experimental History) Bag of words, have mercy on us https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us
Episode 044: The one with the bees https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy/episodes/044-the-one-with-the-bees

For a copy of Tom's prompt, or with questions, comments, historical corrections or love notes, ping us at tentacles@crownandreach.com

Find out more about us and our work at crownandreach.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.