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There's a Shakespeare quote from Julius Caesar which would seem appropriate.

It's written by an AI. That's why it's a bit shit.

In most ways, it isn't meaningfully. It became what it is now, but in the same way a 600 year old oak isn't anything like an acorn or a sapling, what exists now isn't meaningfully …

Short version: Reported quarterly revenue: ~$111 billion, so a 17% year-over-year increase. Diluted earnings per share: ~$2. 22% increase compared to the same quarter last year. Op…

Terra Mystica, Brass Birmingham, Scythe, Root, ARCS and its expansions, Nemesis: Retaliation and SETI would all get shouts from me for that sort of thing. Slightly depends on your …

You may want to check out Siromer tractors depending where you are. Similar idea.

https://archive.ph/tPWvX

Doesn't seem to do anything on custom game.

A product being good enough isn't enough. At some point you also need to price it, and communicate it's existence persuasively to the market and win market share, and it has to be …

My mistake. Nice catch. That being said, AirPods use a steel frame construction to get the weight up for the same reason. There's a whole thing with weight in neuromarketing for lu…

1. They have steel weights in them to make them that heavy so they feel more premium.

Both built by Claude Sonnet 4.6

Doesn't need to be a single person, but yes, all good products come from someone or a (generally) small team, spotting something, and fixing it. As for the marketing department - d…

Good segmentation is mostly not by demography nowadays. At best, demographics are a correlative element to something more fundamental, usually economic, behavioural or psychographi…

"how come no one, in the past 25 years of my life as a consumer, has ever had any time to ask me a single real question" There's a lot of shit marketers, is my short answer. Like, …

The problem I tend to see is that companies say they're doing JTBD research, but they're actually just running attribute preference surveys (asking customers to rank features, from…

It's what always happens when there's a disconnect between the product built and the actual thing people want to do. In marketing, we differentiate between Jobs-As-Activities (the …

Not sure where you get that for Milgram. That's been replicated lots of times, in different countries, with different compositions of people, and found to be broadly replicable. Bu…

You're not wrong strictly speaking - the challenge comes in getting KPIs for ethical and moral behaviour to be things that the company signs up for. Some are geared that way inhere…

Responded on this line of thinking a bit further down, so I'll be brief on this. Yes, there's selection bias in organisations as you go up the ladder of power and influence, which …

It's instructive though, despite the flaws, and at this point has been replicated enough in different ways that we know it's got some basis in reality. There's a whole bunch of con…

People's actual measured experience, vs people's experience of the experience, are rarely the same things, when they have prior knowledge of one thing, and low knowledge of the alt…

There's loads of this in the UX space. To overly simplify, people's brains use expected ideas about what things are like, in order to interact with the world. We build models as to…