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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 3K136: 100 Times Faster

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“But despite Jesus’ instructions, the report of his power spread even faster, and vast crowds came to hear him preach and to be healed of their diseases.”

Imagine being able to make anything 100X faster?  It’s a little mind-boggling if you sit with that thought for a moment.  Imagine being able to read this, or even respond at that increased rate?  It would be life-changing.  The promises of AI are bearing out that we will see 100X, if not more, rate increases in data analysis and identification.  A product called Forager can now identify compounds in plants that provide human nutrients. With their AI based platform they are doing it 100X faster than any scientific identification system known.  There are many valid reasons to be cautious about machine learning and AI, yet there are so many exciting (and somewhat unimaginable) positive breakthroughs to come that we can’t ignore what possibilities are in front of us.

God does not seem to be One who is about speeding up, going faster or hurrying to a conclusion.  Yet, He is the creator of all and He knew from the beginning that we as His creations would do all we can to make things go faster.  History proves it; trains, cars, planes, spacecraft, technology, etc.  We speed things up as part of our nature. The Word in so many places speaks of slowing down, being patient, allowing time to mature, etc.  But, there is a place that God wants us to speed up and that is in the sharing and spreading of His love and Good News.  If we can take what we know in how to speed things up and apply it to the sharing of Him and what He is doing in our lives, then that is a faster that works!

Reference: Luke 5:15 (New Living Translation)