I love Stratechery for a whole bunch of reasons related to tech, insight and the larger picture. And also for the occasional tidbits like last Tuesday’s note that alerted me to the origins of the phrase ‘so it goes’. It’s from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 book Slaughterhouse-Five. From the New Yorker earlier this year: “I had not remembered, until I reread...
We all have fears. About lots of things. I’ve been thinking about how to be more courageous. Perhaps aiming to be fearless? First thing I thought I’d do is list out a bunch of the things I’m fearful about. Here’s just a few – I’m fearful of: harmdiscomfortpainchangespeaking at eventsmeeting peoplestriking up conversations doing hard worknot having a missionill...
A good example of what artificial intelligence can knock out theses days – consider this blog, which is almost* entirely ‘written’ by artificial intelligence. The content, the authors, even their photos, are all fake – generated by algorithms. Ian and I chat further about this in Shot 1 of episode 163 of HubShots. *Almost everything – the post titles are created by a...
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Eric Schmidt showed how to lead as a student
Experts question dire current and future Bitcoin energy use projections, most of which are based on a single source, Digiconomist, whose methodology is suspect
New research explains why we pretend to know more than we do - and it's kinda worrying.
Ever responded to a promotion of a free trial only to find out they then ask for your credit card? Infuriating right?
In episode 73 of HubShots I highlight a recent experience, plus review some of the new HubSpot features including the new ShutterStock integration – sweet!
We released a very simple Facebook chat bot for the HubShots podcast.
You can chat with HubShots Bot here.
The bot is built in Chatfuel, and thanks to Matt Barby for his post here giving an introduction.
I always love reading Ross’ posts, and this one is another good example of why. In it Ross explains the difference between what the Skyscraper technique actually is versus what it’s perceived to be: Like the name states: it’s a technique. A valuable technique in any toolkit, but one many can misapply if incorrectly assessed. Think it through, have the self-awareness to know what you...