Alex Smith

I mean, I like Chris Mason. But he knows fuck all about AI.

I hate the kneejerk response from broadcasters to treat "announcement by politician, therefore it's a politics story". This is a tech and enterprise story being announced by the PM. Do the tech and enterprise angle.

NYC restaurant. Best buy of tech in last few years

The state of eDiscovery in a nutshell. A blocked Suez Canal where the remedy is a tiny tractor digging out a massive container ship. #ediscovery #ediscoverylife #humor

For my next trick, I will escape from Alcatraz with a spoon.

The Gates Dogfish eDiscovery Notebook Experiment is underway. Be one of the first to know when it's ready! Drop your email here for updates and a sneak peek: forms.gle/xBa64WURJwo5... #ediscovery #ediscoverylife #litigationsupport #humor

Most of the interesting people don’t post 😭😀😉

Everyone is actually working right now. At least the interesting people. The last two years have been like no others.

Everyone is too busy sharing selfies on LinkedIn 😉

I'm continuing to bet that caring about the details, purpose, a focus on process and assets/tools, and continuous improvement will beat making it up as one goes along + random word generators.

If random word generators help, we will of course fit them into the process as just another tool

I'm least confident about 2, but as the diagram shows, if it really works, of course everyone is going to be using it.

My strongly-held beliefs are that processes matter, tools are tools, and creating relationships is what matters most and that's a very human activity.

Most Test hundreds since the start of 2021:

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2. Kane Williamson (9)
3. Harry Brook (8)
4= Dimuth Karunaratne, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne (7)

#NZvENG

the final frontier of everyone leaving platforms is everyone having homepages again

when we go back to an internet of homepages we will need a good tool to index and search them. I hope it's possible

Are AI Agent going to work? Most firms need to grasp their hard underlying processes first before any magic.

Also in the category of “LOLLM”, I give you:

So sorry to hear this Ed, thoughts with you and all his other close friends and colleagues who were on his journey with him. 💔

I decided to “upgrade” my LinkedIn profile 😉

Few years in and you embrace insanity.

After humility has been learned the hard way, the more interesting questions emerge around situations where deterministic systems may help and what would need to be true

Wow PwC in SCL. Will I soon be known as the “Godfather of IA before AI” in professional services …

#IAbeforeAI

What’s that sound … ah the sound of flocking.

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

Only 23 Gregg Wallace apologies until Christmas

Loving this post on the power of curation and why? Great content is core not just to great outcomes but also to grounding new technology like AI. Coming through the other side of the last 2 years ...

Of course it's no. But it can be done with amply available existing resources aka humans

having a cat stand on your chest and nuzzle your face is a life well lived

so how do I get to a standard starting point for a new contract etc? I'm doing more and more knowledge projects right now as firms realise the importance of this content? So how do we see lawyers doing work differently now with change perimeters. I'd suggest humans doing the tweet are more impt now

The rise of US-style tipping — and why Britons are (politely) rebelling Despite being bombarded with tipping prompts on card machines, Britons are not bowing to the pressure to give more, figures show

The endless creep of adding tips drives me mad. I stayed at a posh hotel for a night in the summer and they had the absolute cheek to tell me they'd add 5% to my bill as a "discretionary service charge". I think the very fuck not: I was already paying a fair whack for service. They took it off.