Anxiously Awaiting Radiohead’s New Single, “Delete Your Account”
…because that’s what Radiohead’s been doing for the last several hours, deleting their social media accounts. And their website, too, while they’re at it, which faded away gradually with some handy javascript. Why? Well, who knows. It should be obvious,…
Azile, The Chatbot That Was Savage AF AI
Chatbots. They’re so hot right now. Chatbots. Really, though, you can’t spend more than 20 seconds on Twitter these days without encountering some kind of tweet about chatbots, Facebook Messenger, AI, conversational commerce, etc, etc… and yeah, we’ve chugged the…
Today Was a Good Day (and Here’s How To Have One)
From Ice Cube’s “Today Was a Good Day,” we all learned what constituted a good day in his world. The rest of us, well, we probably won’t hit a triple double today (or do much of what else is in…
Superforecasters Of the World, Unite
Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner have nailed what goes into predictive analytics with the subtitle of Superforecasting: “The Art and Science Of Prediction.” Because it really is a combination of art and science – the ability to graft subtle nuances…
Status, Personalization, Location and Action: IoT Data Primer
The Internet of Things (IoT) is such a hot topic of discussion these days that if you make any kind of device you’re quite possibly thinking you should stick a port on it and figure out what to do with…
The New Getting To Yes: Hearing No
Seems it’s the fear of hearing the word “no” that stops us from getting to “yes” most of the time. Which is surprising, considering that most people want to be agreeable and have trouble saying “no” themselves… Jia Jiang’s Rejection…
Better and Faster: How To Hunt For Trends
We’ve been avid followers of trendhunter.com for years so we were psyched to get this copy of Better and Faster: The Proven Path To Unstoppable Ideas by their CEO Jeremy Gutsche. As you can see, we typically hunt for trends…
Pigeon Post
There’s probably a dearth of trained carrier-pigeons these days, but there’s an alternate option for getting a note from point A to B by a messenger most fowl: 16 Sparrows is offering a “Pigeon Post” kit that is lightweight enough…