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A conversation with Sam Altman: from teenage dreamer to AI visionary.
As a 15-year-old Sam Altman dreamt of inventing a new technology. After graduating from Stanford, he launched his first tech start up, Loopt. Then at 28 he became the President of Y-Combinator, followed by an 8-day stint as CEO of Reddit. In 2015 he co-founded Open AI...
APIs – the future of legal tech leadership
What's on my mind at the moment is APIs. "An API is a platform that allows different pieces of software, or applications, to communicate with one another. The term is used broadly in the context of programming languages, the web, operating systems, etc. For example,...
It Mightn’t Get Easier, You Just Get Better.
Earlier this year, I was honoured to be invited to speak at the Managing Partners’ Conference and deliver a keynote about innovation from an in-house perspective. I listened intently to the content, keen to understand how Australia’s law firm leaders viewed the legal...
Mentorship – The Butterfly Effect.
On Thursday 30 April 2020 at 6.30pm AEST, 141 participants from around the globe gathered via Zoom to attend the virtual launch party of The Legal Forecast's first innovation focused mentoring program - TLF Connect (in partnership with LIV and Queensland Law Society)....
Thank You Technology.
Dr Joe Dispenza, neuroscientist, chiropractor and author, says that humans who need to wake up, need a wake-up call. We sure are in the midst of a collective wake up call, don’t you think? Like a real life episode of Black Mirror, the C-word is forcing many of us,...
Let’s get inTWENTional.
The last few years I have been purchasing two pairs of these incredibly trendy glasses from the $2 shop. [I persuade] My husband to wear them on New Year’s Eve with me for an Insta boomi. Yes, it’s cheesy. It’s become our silly way of closing out the year together. On...
How to Write a Business Case Right
While the connection between lawyers and business case writing seemed once as remote as Kim Kardashian becoming an attorney, if you’re a legal function looking to modernise its practices, you’ll know there's a fair few things to keep up with. Whether or not you...
The Future of Work – Lawyers take note.
2020. This brand new decade is now a mere 68 days away, at the time of writing this post. The decade that is earmarked for transformation of well, everything, including the workplace. With the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, diversity and inclusion are...
The NYC effect.
My out of office is on for I’m having a much-needed vacay. However, since arriving I’ve been managing a major case of FOMO in which I’ve fall-en (pun intended) victim to not getting much sleep in the city that never sleeps. Amidst the chaos, randomness and anything...
FaceApp to the New Age
I'm eternally fascinated by the content that "goes viral", that which enjoys the speed of the social adoption curve. The latest craze to hit the social media scene is FaceApp. Over the last 24 hours, it has started to dominate traditional media headlines in a majorly...
What if a mild bit of wrong led to a wild bit of innovation right?
I’m curious, have you ever uttered the words “I’m not trying to be perfect, I’m just trying to do it right”? 🙂 I know I have - a gazillion times. Sharon Salzburg, in her New York bestselling book Real Love, says that perfection is a brittle state that generates a...