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Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas — Smashing Magazine

Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question.In my previous article, I explored how AI can help us create functional...

Best Tools to Track Your Brand Across AI Overviews and Chat Assistants

AI Overviews and chat assistants are quickly becoming the new front door to your brand. People ask Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and...

Modeling a Wealth Tax

August 2020Some politicians are proposing to introduce wealth taxes in addition to income and capital gains taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of various levels of...

2026 customer service planning series: Vol. 05

Capacity planning has always been a high-stakes exercise in customer service. If you get it wrong, you’ll feel it quickly in backlogs and SLAs. AI...

Ford Kills the All-Electric F-150 as It Rethinks Its EV Ambitions

Ford is once again shifting its electric vehicle manufacturing plans, a response to a year that’s been tough for the powertrain technology that’s still...

The Toll of Stress on Startup Teams and Its Link to Founder Well-being

Startup Snapshot, a think tank uncovering the unspoken realities of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, has released its latest report, The Untold Toll (Part 2): Navigating...

Ai2's new Olmo 3.1 extends reinforcement learning training for stronger reasoning benchmarks

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 3: Navigating Data Complexity Using Agentic Workflows with Ravinder Sharma

SummaryIn this episode of the Fuel Podcast, Grace Gill welcomes Naukr.ai CEO,...

What Is a B2B Customer Journey Map and Its Importance?

A B2B customer journey map outlines the stages and interactions a business customer experiences when engaging with a brand, from initial awareness to renewal....

Best Monthly Web Hosting Plans (Month-to-Month Without a Long Contract)

If you don’t want to lock yourself into a 12–36 month hosting contract, you’re not alone. Maybe you’re validating a new idea, running a short-term...

Early Work

October 2020One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not...

2026 customer service planning series: Vol. 03

AI doesn’t fail because the model is bad, it fails because ownership is missing. Once someone owns it, everything changes. Your resolution and automation rates...

Django 6.0 release notes | Django documentation

Content Security Policy support¶ Built-in support for the Content Security Policy (CSP) standard is now available, making it easier to protect web applications against content injection attacks...

@bfeld v60.0 – Feld Thoughts

My father Stan and I in our default states.lsof -ti:3000 | xargs kill -9 2>/dev/null; npm run devI’ve been wandering up to 60 for...

DeepSeek just dropped two insanely powerful AI models that rival GPT-5 and they're totally free

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 433: Reinventing Private Aviation Staffing with Tyler Flagg and Flying Company

SummaryIn this week’s episode of Startup Junkies, host Daniel Koonce sits down...

The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science?...