🔗 Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek sells merch to pay for cancer treatment.
Good idea. Should have thought about it myself …
Oh wait I did — zero response, just like most of my posts.
Another Substack clash.
Literally back to back - these two pieces appeared. The first was from our old friend Dana talking about the AI Boom bust and in turn - a haircut
🔗 When Will The AI Boom Bust? - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
And then right after that, another writer talking about what you’ve taken to human interaction out of all customer interactions you’re pretty much left with nothing.
🔗 The unexpected opportunity with AI agents - designing for customer friction
I think Dana is giving you a real world example from today to support Jamies argument - as he was thinking about the future.
🔗 Well now - that’s an idea - the new product from Arc, though I can’t help thinking that is a video for an audience of one.
It’s not going to change your electric bill much today, but imagine this software running your house.
🔗 Age-gating - Matt Mullenweg … at the OS layer?
Over in identity land I am constantly amazed how the world of tech keep on providing solutions that if they work, will only work with devices and computers.
Nobody ever talks about how this happens in person or on the phone.
🔗 Robot(taxi)s Are Coming! No seriously!
I love Om’s visual.
🔗 Manton Reece on crap Substack RSS feeds.
Personally not surprised. Isn’t their whole schstick newsletters, email subscriptions and followers, so that the writer knows who is interested in what they produce and how many of them they are? Make the RSS feed too good would undermine all of that .. no?
In my health fight over the past four years, my oncologist 🔗Pepe Sasso had five rules that he laid on me at the very beginning and kept pushing me every time I saw him - including just a couple of …