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When a brand emails you a birthday discount for a product you returned, it tends to say one thing clearly — th…
Personalization works when it begins with customer behavior analysis, and fails predictably when it does not.
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The companies that are quietly thriving with AI in their marketing tend to have somethin…
AI did not break account-based marketing; it revealed that the majority of programs labeled ABM were glorified batch-and-blast with better targeting…
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Google+ launched without ads, and that silence spoke louder than any campaign
Withholding the pitch can function as the most powerful pitch of all, if the underlying architecture supports extraction later.
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People don’t search the way businesses name things — and websites that ignore that…
Keywords are customer conversations happening in plain sight, and site architecture should be built from that dialogue outward.
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Caltech astronomers say a hidden planet may be quietly reshaping the outer Solar System…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. I've been to the Atacama Desert in Chile exactly once in 2022, an…
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Research suggests one overlooked part of the immune system may help explain why some peo…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There's a pattern most of us have noticed, even if we've never pu…
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Research suggests AI may not take your job directly — but people who learn to use it wel…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Open any feed right now and someone is predicting which jobs arti…
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Research suggests you may not be bad at languages — you may just be trying to learn them…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There is a story a lot of us tell about ourselves, and it goes li…
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Research suggests your brain may already know when an old pattern is no longer helping y…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Picture the version of yourself who keeps doing the same thing an…
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10 good news stories that made us grateful for scientists, neighbors, rescuers, teachers…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. It is easy to feel like the world only knows how to get worse. Pa…
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Companies using Claude Fable 5 should know their data is being retained for 30 days with…
Tension: The most capable model now available is also the one that voids your enterprise data retention agreement — best capability and safest data h…
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Anthropic spent two months deciding whether it was responsible to release an AI that can…
Tension: Anthropic built an AI capable of finding zero-days in every major operating system — then spent two months concluding it was too dangerous t…
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People raised in the 60s and 70s grew up with childhoods that had fewer passwords, fewer…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The things added to modern childhood are not neutral additions. P…
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Thought of the day from Daniel Kahneman: “People who are cognitively busy are more…
Tension: We live in an environment engineered to keep working memory full — yet we keep designing messages as if our audience has the cognitive space…
Inside You
My friend told me retiring didn’t feel like freedom at first — it felt like being…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. A friend who retired recently described something I hadn't expect…
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7 things that quietly get easier after 65 that nobody tells you about, because we only e…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Nobody talks about what gets better with age, because the cultura…