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Alan Lepofsky shared thisOn April 3, 1973, while working at Motorola, Marty Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone. Thanks to R "Ray" Wang and Constellation Research, Inc. I had the pleasure of meeting him few years ago. Thank you Evan Kirstel for the reminder.
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisThe Giving Tree has always been one of my favourite books. The tree gives everything to the boy. Its apples. Its branches. Even its trunk. Not because it wanted something in return. Because it loved him. While reading it to my son last night for the umpteenth time, I realized I’ve always seen this as a story about personal relationships. But could it also be a story about brands and customer experience? The boy keeps coming back. As a kid. A teenager. An adult. An old man. Every time, his needs are different. And every time, the tree meets him where he is. That’s the customer lifecycle. Your customer today won’t be the same in 5 years. Their budget changes. Their priorities shift. Their problems evolve. The brands that win aren’t the ones that simply acquire customers... they’re the ones that grow with them. They are the ones that always having a place for someone to sit. 🌳 Are you building a brand people can keep coming back to?
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisHow do you want to be remembered?Alan Lepofsky shared thisThe true test of character is how we treat others. Too often we forget that character is revealed in patterns — in kindness shown, responsibilities honored, and empathy extended. Character is consistent. Fostering this ethos forms the bedrock of a thriving, resilient workplace. The real measure of success? How you make people feel — especially when there’s nothing to gain. Agree? Pick up a copy of my new book. "LEADING IN THE AGE OF AI." 👉 https://lnkd.in/e97NsiMP
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisWhat’s the right balance between ignorance is bliss and having the world’s knowledge at your fingertips? Perhaps the right starting point is not knowing everything, but at least having access to everything you know. The things you’ve done, the actions you’ve taken, the people you’ve connected with. What if all of that information were instantly available to you? Today Sam Kececi, Teddy Schoenfeld and The Sentience Company started their journey along this path. Back in the early days of Lotus, we were pioneers in the Knowledge Management industry of the 1990s, or KM as people called it. One of our projects, which eventually became K-Station, was codenamed Yoda. It is still one of my favorite project codenames! Over the years, there have been many attempts to bring your own knowledge, corporate knowledge, and the world’s knowledge to people’s fingertips. I remember trying Rewind at one point, which I believe was acquired by Meta. Well, today another exciting step in using technology to help us be our best selves began. Take a look at what Sentient Computing is doing. I look forward to trying it out.Alan Lepofsky shared thisI'm excited to share we raised $6.5m to build humanity’s platform for uploaded consciousness. Sentience creates one unique model for every person — a digital twin of your mind — to remember everything, recall what matters, and operate as you. I started this company because I am worried. For the first time, we have intelligence that will fully replace humans across a range of domains within a few years. For those outside of the tech echo chamber, this is a period wrought with confusion and uncertainty about what actually matters anymore. I’ve had numerous conversations with people who aren’t sure if they have any value as a unique human being, or whether their own thinking matters. While Silicon Valley goes full speed ahead towards AGI, many people are left wondering what place they have in this AI future. If I can communicate one thing to everyone out there with these doubts, it would be this: your unique knowledge, memories, and who you are still matter. In fact, these things matter now more than ever. The problem is that the course of AI is heading towards a world where all of us will outsource our thinking to the same one-size-fits-all AI models. This is not a hypothetical future. If 100,000 people ask a question to ChatGPT, every single person gets the same answer. You can see the cost of uniform AI models across writing, social media, and even academic papers. This uniformity is more than annoying – it’s dangerous. There’s a genuine chance that we lose the texture and vibrancy that makes us unique as a species. I founded The Sentience Company to arm real humans against this dystopian outcome. First, your Sentience lets you collect everything that holds context from your life, learning from what you do across every platform – starting on desktop and mobile. Never forget a detail again. Second, your Sentience becomes the best recall engine for everything in your life. Never copy/paste context or search across 50 chrome tabs again. Finally, your Sentience becomes the full simulation of you – an AI model that thinks and acts like you, to scale and share your unique ideas and interact with others. Your Sentience emulates more than your context. It understands your values, emotions, drive, and goals. We’re creating a world where you can leverage your own Sentience model alongside the models of your colleagues and friends to jam on ideas and access their knowledge 24/7. We’re not building Sentience to scale AGI and replace more human thinking. We’re building Sentience to scale you. --- We’re proud that many amazing humans are supporting our mission. Our round was led by Kevin Zhang (@ Bain Capital Ventures), with participation from Dylan, Aditya, Ruchi, Evan, Arian, Gopal, Jonathan, and more (@ South Park Commons), Rex Woodbury (@ Daybreak), Terrence Rohan, Soleio, Annie Case, and many more.
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisThere is no winner or loser, only ahead or behind. Learn from your competition, but only focus on how you can make yourself better, not how you can beat them.Alan Lepofsky shared thisEmbrace the concept of Worthy Rivalry. Your Worthy Rivals will inspire you to improve to a greater degree than any competitor ever could. Video from Chick-fil-A Next 2025, in conversation with Chief Legal Officer Lynette Smith
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisI didn’t have Apple entering the enterprise email space on my 2026 prediction list. During my decade as an industry analyst covering enterprise productivity suites, I often asked why Apple wasn’t competing in this market. They have great devices, productivity software, communication apps, and a really strong ecosystem. So what was holding them back? What changed now for them to decide to enter? My career started at IBM Lotus, once a dominant player in this space. I saw firsthand how quickly that changed, as we faded and the market became a two-horse race between Microsoft and Google. Others have tried to break in. Amazon took a swing. ZoHo has a robust suite. Zoom expanded into email and collaboration. Newer players like Notion are rethinking what a “suite” even looks like. But Apple remained the most interesting absence. They have an incredibly strong end to end experience. Phones, tablets, OS, apps, and real mindshare with customers. Google has similar strength with phones, tablets, and a full productivity suite. Microsoft clearly owns the software side, but has failed multiple times on hardware. And now, new players like OpenAI and Perplexity are starting to redefine what productivity even means. So what do you think? And note, despite so many valiant attempts to replace it, email still refuses to die!
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisDiverse points of view are critical to the success of any project. So are two LLMs better than one? The best outcomes happen when you bring together different experiences, perspectives, and ideas. That’s why transparency and sharing are such critical components of successful teams. But do those teams have to be entirely human? 🤔 In an earlier post, I wrote about whether AI is changing collaboration. Today, let's extend that further... if you are collaborating with LLMs, why stop at just one? 🤖🤖🤖 What about bouncing ideas between multiple models, letting one challenge and refine the other? - Model A generates an initial concept. - Model B provides critical pushback and identifies gaps. - Model C synthesizes the feedback into a final draft. It starts to feel a lot like a real brainstorming session... the kind with raw ideas, challenging arguments, and better outcomes. Of course, nothing replaces human instinct, experience, or passion. But LLMs are no doubt a powerful addition to the employee toolset. They don’t replace collaboration; they extend it. 💡 How are you structuring your AI brainstorming teams? Are you letting models challenge each other yet?
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisThere’s no such thing as work-life balance. Work and life are not equal elements on some imaginary scale. They are not equivalent entities you “balance,” “blend,” or “optimize” with whatever the latest cute productivity term happens to be. Life is the only top-level construct. Work is simply one component of life. At times, the most important. But alongside it are thousands of other things that matter: family, friends, health, religion, hobbies, curiosity, creativity, rest, purpose, community. And beyond that, an endless list of priorities, responsibilities, relationships, and experiences that make us who we are. A better term is Space for Life. Space for Life is about the ever-shifting priorities that make us human. The moments that make us colleagues, friends, parents, partners, neighbours. Space for Life can mean something different for every person, in every moment. What matters today might not matter tomorrow. Of all the products, reports, and campaigns I’ve worked on throughout my career, exploring and championing this idea alongside Mike Sutcliff and Richie Etwaru remains one of my most meaningful accomplishments. This beautiful image by Jim MacLeod wonderfully illustrates the concept. Picture your own world, and how the elements within it come and go, expand and contract, and overlap and intertwine as your priorities change over time. When we create Space for Life, something remarkable happens. We become healthier, happier, more creative, more inspired, and better able to bring our best to everything we do. Because when life has space to flourish, everything else flourishes too.
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Alan Lepofsky shared thisHappy International Women’s Day. I feel incredibly fortunate to have worked alongside so many talented, thoughtful, and inspiring women throughout my career. Your leadership, creativity, resilience, and perspective make teams stronger and organizations better every day.
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Alan Lepofsky reacted on thisAlan Lepofsky reacted on thisDo not take the good health of you and your loved ones for granted. Do not take a good job, a good boss and steady income for granted. Do not take lifelong friendships and supportive truth tellers for granted. Do not take being in love, and being loved, for granted.
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