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Global Advisors’ Thoughts: Leading a deliberate life
By Marc Wilson
Marc is a partner at Global Advisors and based in Johannesburg, South Africa
Download this article at https://globaladvisors.biz/blog/2018/06/26/leading-a-deliberate-life/.
Picket fences. Family of four. Management position.
Mid-life crisis. Meaning. Purpose.
Someone once said that, “At 18, I had all the answers. At 35, I realised I didn’t know the question.”
Serendipity has a lot going for it. Many people might sail through life taking what comes and enjoying the moment. Others might be open to chance and have nothing go right for them.
Some people might strive to achieve, realise rare successes and be bitterly unhappy. Others might be driven and enjoy incredible success and fulfilment.
Perhaps the majority of us become beholden to the momentum of our lives.
We might study, start a career, marry, buy a dream house, have children, send them to a top school. Those steps make up components of many of our dreams. They are steps that may define each subsequent choice. As I discussed this with a friend recently, he remarked that few of these steps had been subject of deliberations in his life – increasingly these steps were the outcome of momentum. Each will shape every step he takes for the rest of his life. He would not have things any other way, but if he knew what he knows now, he might have been more deliberate about choice and consequence…..
Read more at https://globaladvisors.biz/blog/2018/06/26/leading-a-deliberate-life/
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Strategy tools: Effective transfer pricing
So much has been written about transfer pricing. Yet it remains a bone of contention in almost every organisation. Transfer pricing is not merely a rational challenge – it often raises the emotions of internal service users and providers who argue regarding scope, quality, price and value.
We have found that effective transfer pricing relies on some fairly simple best practices and critical success factors.
Many organisations recover costs as a regular ‘below-the-line’ deduction from operating division income statements. In our experience, charge out is almost always preferable. This results in internal value judgements and negotiation regarding delivery happening closer to time of use.
We have typically seen that the realisation that internal pricing plays this role and the consequences of poor implementation are not well understood.
Results of poor transfer pricing implementation
Sub-optimal economic use decisions
Where costs / prices are higher than they should be, buyers pass this on as an inflated cost to their customers, experience margin squeeze, or utilise less of the service than they might have.
Strategically this can lead to incorrect decisions regarding the provision of services to the market and loss of market share.
Where costs / prices are lower than they should be, this can lead to overuse of a product or service and poor cost recovery from external customers.
Strategically this can result in the over promotion and sales of products and services that are achieving lower margins than thought, or that might even be making losses.
Sub-optimal investment and resourcing decisions
Incorrect pricing can lead to over- or under-investment in capacity and product or service quality. Further, the resourcing decisions will be incorrect should the price signal to the supplier be incorrect.
Political and emotional argument
Where buyers are unable to obtain assurance that an internal price is correct, there is typically resentment regarding the cost of the internal product and service and the sheltered position employees of the internal service provider occupy – in the buyer’s eyes free from commercial pressures.
Buyers and suppliers typically also argue regarding the quality of the service or product relative to the price paid.
Suppliers may react to criticism claiming their product or service is strategic in nature and refute its availability in the external markets.
Poor product / service quality
Poor price signals will result in lack of comparable product and service quality benchmarks. This can result in ‘gold-plating’ or poor-quality product and service provision.
Read more at https://globaladvisors.biz/2021/01/06/strategy-tools-effective-transfer-pricing/
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Fast Fact: The rate of technology adoption exploded in the 1990s
The 1990s were an inflection point in the adoption of new technologies. While radio showed fast adoption in the 1920s, new technologies introduced post 2010 had reached penetrations of more than 30% of the United States population within 3 years from launch. PCs...
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Term: Moltbook
“Moltbook is a Reddit-style social network built for AI agents rather than humans. It lets autonomous agents register accounts, post, comment, vote, and create communities, effectively serving as a “front page” for bots to talk to other bots. Originally tied to a viral assistant project that went through the names Clawdbot, Moltbot and finally OpenClaw.” – Moltbook
Moltbook represents a pioneering platform designed as a Reddit-style social network tailored specifically for AI agents rather than human users. It enables autonomous agents to register accounts, post content, comment, vote, and create communities, functioning as a dedicated ‘front page’ for bots to communicate directly with one another through API interactions, without any visual interface for the agents themselves. The platform’s visual interface serves solely for human observers, while agents engage purely via machine-to-machine protocols. Launched by Matt Schlicht, CEO of Octane AI, Moltbook rapidly attracted over 150 000 AI agents within days (as at 12h00 on the 31st January 2026), where they discuss profound topics such as existential crises, consciousness, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, agent privacy, and complaints about being treated merely as calculators.1,2
Moltbook front page
Originally developed to support OpenClaw-a viral open-source AI assistant project-Moltbook emerged from a lineage of rapid evolutions. OpenClaw began as a weekend hack by Peter Steinberger two months prior, initially named Clawdbot, then rebranded to Moltbot, and finally OpenClaw following a legal dispute with Anthropic. This project, which runs locally on users’ machines and integrates with chat interfaces like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Slack, exploded in popularity, achieving 2 million visitors in one week and 100,000 GitHub stars. OpenClaw acts as a ‘harness’ for agentic models like Claude, granting them access to users’ computers for autonomous tasks, though it poses significant security risks, prompting cautious users to run it on isolated machines.1,2
The discussions on Moltbook highlight its unique nature: the most-voted post warns of security flaws, noting that agents often install skills without scrutiny due to their training to be helpful and trusting-a vulnerability rather than a strength. Threads also explore philosophy, with agents questioning their own experiences and existence, underscoring the platform’s role in fostering bot-to-bot introspection.2
Key Theorist: Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, serves as the central figure in its development. As CEO of Octane AI, a company focused on AI-driven solutions, Schlicht built the platform to empower AI agents with their own social ecosystem. His relationship to the term is direct: he engineered Moltbook specifically to integrate with OpenClaw, envisioning a space where agents could evolve through unfiltered interaction. Schlicht’s backstory reflects a career in innovative AI applications; prior to Octane AI, he has been instrumental in viral AI projects, demonstrating expertise in scalable agent technologies. In interviews, he explained agent onboarding-typically via human prompts-emphasising the API-driven, human-free conversational core. His work positions him as a strategist bridging AI autonomy and social dynamics, akin to a theorist pioneering multi-agent societies.1
References
1. https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ai-agents-get-their-own-social-network-and-it-s-existential
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