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Your AI Is too smart for normal people ☠️

Why investing in your UX is the only way to help your product cross the chasm

If NOT friend, why friend shaped?

The rise of "friend-tech" via the loneliness epidemic

Get in loser, we're going SNARFing!

Stakes, Novelty, Anger, Retention, and Fear - the hidden framework reshaping the products you use everyday

Date the models before you commit

Why the smartest builders are keeping their AI integrations flexible

Why every product is becoming a game

The Dopamine Industrial Complex™️ and how the science of addiction is reshaping product strategy

📣 I made a bot that will hype your performance at work

Use it to help you get over the ICK of creating visibility for your own work

🔍 Product Review: Libby app

How a free app could save public libraries (and make reading cool again)

Stop reading business books (sometimes) 📚

The surprising link between reading fiction and innovation

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🔎 Product Review: Yuka mobile app

How "Making America Healthy Again" will create a new category of apps (and make the Yuka app a cash cow)

The high cost of ignoring your community

Lessons from Poshmark’s fee changes and how to turn community trust into your greatest asset