When I worked in consulting, colleagues said "I don't know what executive presence is but I know it when I see it". The reality is that signals of influence are often expressed in non-verbal cues.

The Margin Call movie boardroom scene teaches exec presence well.🧵 In the main boardroom scene where everyone is figuring out whether or not to sell securities, we see Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto wearing the standard investment banker uniform. A suit with a pointed collar and ties with muted colors.

They don't stand out from the rest of the group.

My take on Open AI Sora:

If you are going to create a TON of HQ video from different angles, you need to simulate it. There are a lot of things though that lead me to believe UE5 is being used in part to create the training data.

A 🧵 Lets start with the easiest. The Sora "30 year old spaceman" has lips and a moustache that screams Unreal metahuman.

After 2.5 years of running an online business, I can safely say that there is a massive difference between how a customer pays for the value you create vs the amount of effort that is needed to make that payment process EASY for the customer.

A quick 🧵on how creators get paid. As a quick example, if you are running an online business and you want to get paid for that work, there are a lot of options. Do you use substack? Do you write a book? Do you provide a service and if so how do you collect payments?

Let's take a look at payments.