Author: alinjula
-
Introducing ‘Guiver’ a guided discovery tool
6m read Guided Discovery This past winter, our daughter Emerson fell in love with skiing. Finally! I had a skiing buddy. I’ve been waiting for this moment since she was born. We got a season pass to Lake Tahoe and started making weekend trips from the Bay Area. Fridays after school, we’d hit the road.…
-
Council AI can get you out of the “death spiral”
TL;DR: Use Council AI as your first stop on the AI trip. It gives you a map before you run into a forest full of contradicting answers. Saves you time and sanity—because otherwise, you might get trapped in what I now call the “death spiral” with one AI model. Not fun. So here’s what happened: I was working…
-
Noise and bias
In their book “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment”, Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein (a.k.a. the psychology Avengers) share a super helpful way to understand the difference between noise and bias. Imagine a shooting target and four different teams, each with five people taking shots. The results? Shown below: So what’s the deal here? Here’s the breakdown: Now, let’s talk…
-
From ‘unknown unknowns’ to ‘knowns’ in three taps
Ever stumble on a question so good you think, “Wait… why didn’t I think to ask that?” Yeah, that’s what the Discover tab in Council AI is all about—surfacing questions you didn’t even know you didn’t know. In there, you’ll find curated collections from our team—kind of like a greatest hits album of curiosity. Here’s how it works (spoiler: it’s…