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"If you continue to lead with your heart, anything can happen." - Piper Gilles - 2026 Winter Olympics Canadian figure skater

Quote: Piper Gilles – 2026 Winter Olympics Canadian figure skater

"Gradient descent is a core optimization algorithm in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning used to find the optimal parameters for a model by minimizing a cost (or loss) function." - Gradient descent -

Term: Gradient descent

“Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots, but you have to play the ball where it lies.” - Bobby Jones - American amateur golfer

Quote: Bobby Jones

"'What would have to be true?' forces you to identify assumptions. It forces you to make the implicit explicit. And once you do that, you can test assumptions. You can see where you might be wrong. It’s a way to avoid getting swept up in narrative." - Bill Gurley - GP at Benchmark

Quote: Bill Gurley

"Here's the thing nobody outside of tech quite understands yet: the reason so many people in the industry are sounding the alarm [about AI] right now is because this already happened to us. We're not making predictions. We're telling you what already occurred in our own jobs, and warning you that you're next." - Matt Shumer - CEO HyperWriteAI, OthersideAI

Quote: Matt Shumer – CEO HyperWriteAI, OthersideAI

"You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me." - James van der Beek - TV star

Quote: James van der Beek – TV star

"The Cambrian Explosion (approx. 538,8–505 million years ago) was a rapid evolutionary event where most major animal phyla (body plans) appeared in the fossil record. It marked a transition from simple, soft-bodied organisms to complex, diverse life forms, including the first creatures with hard shells, such as trilobites." - Cambrian Explosion -

Term: Cambrian Explosion

"The people who thrive will be the people who adapt. Who learn to use AI as leverage. Who take on more complex tasks. Who move up the value chain." - Bill Gurley - GP at Benchmark

Quote: Bill Gurley

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now an integral part of new chemistry development and is set to supercharge the future of material engineering and reduce the time to discover, test, and deploy new materials and designs." - Council on Foreign Relations - Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance

Quote: Council on Foreign Relations – Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance

"To 'lean into the moment' means to engage fully with the present experience, situation, or task, rather than avoiding it or being distracted. It implies a willingness to be present, observant and responsive, especially when the situation might be uncomfortable or challenging." - Lean in to the moment -

Term: Lean in to the moment

"A thought experiment (also known by the German term Gedankenexperiment) is a hypothetical scenario imagined to explore the consequences of a theory, principle, or idea when a real-world physical experiment is impossible, unethical, or impractical." - Thought experiment -

Term: Thought experiment

"AI is leverage because it can scale cognition. It can scale certain kinds of thinking and writing and analysis. And that means individuals can do more. Small teams can do more. It changes the power dynamics." - Bill Gurley - GP at Benchmark

Quote: Bill Gurley – GP at Benchmark

"“AI is no longer a future concept for BHP. It is increasingly part of how we run our operations. Our focus is on applying it in practical, governed ways that support our teams in achieving safer, more productive and more reliable outcomes.” - Johan van Jaarsveld - BHP Chief Technical Officer

Quote: Johan van Jaarsveld – BHP Chief Technical Officer

"Abundance is defined as a state where essential resources - such as housing, energy, healthcare, and transportation - are made flourishing, affordable, and universally accessible through an intentional focus on increasing supply." - Abundance -

Term: Abundance

Quote: Max Planck – Nobel laureate

Quote: Max Planck – Nobel laureate

"Tokenisation is the process of converting sensitive data or real-world assets into non-sensitive, unique digital identifiers (tokens) for secure use, commonly seen in data security (replacing credit card numbers with tokens) or blockchain (representing assets like real estate as digital tokens)." - Tokenisation -

Term: Tokenisation

"The pleasant surprise is how much you can accomplish when you properly harness your agents, and how big companies are leaning in and able to actually get volume done on that basis." - Nate B Jones - AI News & Strategy Daily

Quote: Nate B Jones

"A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value, unlike volatile assets like Bitcoin, by pegging its price to a stable reserve asset, usually a fiat currency (like the USD) or a commodity (like gold)." - Stablecoin -

Term: Stablecoin

"In this business it’s easy to confuse luck with brains." - Jim Simons - Renaissance Technologies founder

Quote: Jim Simons – Renaissance Technologies founder

“The crash wasn't caused by manipulation or panic. It revealed something more troubling: Bitcoin had already become the very thing it promised to destroy.” - Luis Flavio Nunes - Investing.com

Quote: Luis Flavio Nunes – Investing.com

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