It used to be said that there were these sadhus or ascetics with special powers that made them float over what ever they wanted to or put their mind to. These dudes were written about in ancient texts and tales told by grammies.
Now here comes a guy from Florida who just pulled a stunt to one up the sadhus. He walked with a pole on a rope over the Niagara Falls from the US to Canada This person has depicted many qualities -
1. Intense focus the likes of which you can see in a monk
2. Entreprenuerial zest to get a large publicity hungry American media giant to fork out over a $1M for the stunt that gets him more noteriety
3. Political skills to negotiate a bilateral agreement between US and Canada allowing him to perform such a feat
4. Dedication to his art
Truly if you set your mind to it you can pull out a rabbit out of a Red Bull (soda I mean)!
Kudos to this artist.
This time for a tech conference in the realm of what else? AI. But applied to an oft neglected space called Knowledge Management. The latter is a community of practice that focuses on analyzing, organizing and making available reams of data that have been gathered over time by various functions within an organization for anyone in the company to utilize. This function or process is ripe for applying AI agents (or agentic AI framework) and optimize for better outcomes. It was informative. More rewarding was getting acquainted with folks who practice this craft as well as learning of what they see in the corporate or public sectors. Since the venue was Washington DC it also afforded me the chance to take evening strolls albeit the weather was trying. With wind chill in the single digit it still is a glamorous place to perambulate through history absorbing what this country has been through since its founding days. I was able to visit the place Lincoln was killed along with his monument t...
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