Mike Walsh > Quotes

“When algorithms become deeply embedded in our daily lives, they have the potential to greatly influence how we behave. If we reach that point, we will no longer be able to easily discern how much of our memory, experiences, tastes, or even our own identity is native to us and how much is merely the technological extensions of ourselves.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Computers lack common sense. We can train machine learning algorithms to spot patterns and detect signals, but to date we haven’t been able to give them the ability to reason from context.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“designing the right collaboration culture is an anthropological rather than technological problem.”
― Mike Walsh, The Dictionary Of Dangerous Ideas

“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Symbolic AI takes human-readable observations about the world and builds them into an expert system that allows a computer to make deductions and decisions.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“If you no longer needed to work to live, what would you do for free?”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Work is where we form a sense of identity. It is how we leverage the skills and experience we have gained over the years, and where we can see the results of our efforts. You don’t have to be a champion skier, the CEO of a global corporation, or a rock star for your labors to have personal significance. You just have to connect with your work in a way that provides meaning and a sense of overall purpose.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Aristotle defined a first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking is therefore the art of breaking a problem down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Whether it be placing advertisements, predicting customer behavior, anticipating equipment failure or even pricing products and services, the most useful people in your strategy team in the future might not be the MBA graduates, but those with the degrees in pure mathematics.”
― Mike Walsh, The Dictionary Of Dangerous Ideas

“If it’s raining, open an umbrella.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“If we have the data, let’s look at the data. If all we have are opinions, let’s just go with mine.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it.” Stephen Hawking”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You