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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜† ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ

That’s the brief I gave websim.ai to see what website it would create. Websim creates websites that don’t exist on the fly. As a tea nerd I think it didn’t do too bad a job:– cool name (and subtitle)– good categorisation– straight into some of the bestsellers– offer to sign up for their newsletter It […]

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๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€?

I was buying groceries this morning and got offered Japanese whisky and aloe vera lubrication as a cross sell. Despite being somewhat impressed that I am thought of as that kind of guy ๐Ÿ˜Ž , this is a tone deaf offer and waste of valuable real estate. I’m not sure where these recommendations come from. […]

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๐—”๐˜€๐—ธ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€, ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ

I was having a chat to Johann Van Tonder about Notebook LLM the other day. One of the joys of it is that it’s a closed loop LLM, i.e. whatever you add as the source material isn’t “polluted” by any other data (like you’d find with ChatGPT and Claude). This means that you’re only dealing […]

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๐—”๐—œ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐Ÿต๐Ÿฑ% ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ?

I use AI to do initial customer research. With the aggregated perspective of the world it can help you understand people’s:– motivations– reservations– frictionIt’s cursory, but it gives you a great immediate insight into people’s perspectives. Evidenza offers this in a much more structured manner. The thing I really like is the ability to chat […]

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๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜ƒ๐˜€ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ผ?

I saw this graph and found it strange that cars have needed to become so much bigger while everything else shrinks…The other more intangible element is that flotsam of data that I have accumulated. 25 years ago it was a bit of Hotmail, now I have GB’s of BS; old group chats and jokes on […]

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๐—œ’๐—บ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜†

It’s hard for everything to be quantitatively determined, and there is often insufficient data and time pressure to make a decision. This means you have to use the data you have (quantitative and qualitative) to decide how to proceed. I think this statement below outlines how difficult it is to counter an opinion stated with […]

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๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐—š๐—ฃ๐—ง ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐˜†๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ #๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿณ

I need to buy more wood for my fireplace and pizza oven, but I wasn’t sure how many bags I’d need.After some forcing ChatGPT to guess instead of measuring it gave me an assumption. It guessed 16 vs the 18 I bought last time.Pretty good from one image and a number of assumptions…

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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜† ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ

That’s the brief I gave websim.ai to see what website it would create. Websim creates websites that don’t exist on the fly. As a tea nerd I think it didn’t do too bad a job:– cool name (and subtitle)– good categorisation– straight into some of the bestsellers– offer to sign up for their newsletter It […]

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“๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜‚๐˜€.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Without trying to get too weighty with the quote I can recommend an exercise to know yourself better. I’m doing a personal branding course with Vassilena Valchanova (highly recommended!) and one of the exercises was asking people you work with a number of questions (see below). As a perennial optimiser I love […]

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๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

(source: Nielsen’s 2024 marketing report) 63% of their budgets are going to digital channels.I’m not sure what the perfect marketing mix is for brand building (maybe a bit more than 30%?), but it’s illuminating that marketing is all digital and all direct response. What are the implications of this?– ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿคฃ […]