Social•Jan 4, 2026
Data Buzzwords Mapped: Distinguish Mining, Analysis, Viz, Science
Data buzzwords ≠ same meaning. Here’s a clear map: 🔍 Data Mining = find patterns 📈 Data Analysis = interpret insights 📊 Data Viz = communicate visually 🧠 Data Science = knowledge + ML 🏢 Warehouse (structured) 🌊 Lake (raw at scale) 🏞️ Lakehouse (best of both) 🐊 Swamp (lake w/ no governance) 🕸️ Mesh (domain-owned decentralization) 🧵 Fabric (unified integration layer) Which term gets misused most where you work? 👇 #Data #Analytics #DataScience #AI #DataEngineering
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Jan 4, 2026
2025: Massive Growth, New Courses, and Personal Milestones
My 2025 wrapped: - released our first ever course & product 🚀 - followed up with 3 more courses (and a 4th coming soon with a great friend, @pauliusztin_) - invited to NVIDIA GTC and briefly met Jensen + many amazing people - landed...
By Louis Bouchard
Social•Jan 4, 2026
MIT Breakthrough Lets Rescue Robots Map Instantly
This is where #AI + #IoT + #robotics become mission-critical. Robots that understand their environment don’t just move faster, they save lives. MIT just unveiled a breakthrough that lets search-and-rescue robots rapidly map large, unpredictable spaces in real time. @MITAeroAstro @MITEngineering #CES2026 🔗...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Simple Strategies Win; Complex Decks Signal Trouble
If your strategy fits on a napkin, it's probably good. If it needs a 40-slide deck, it's probably broken.
By Dan Martell
Social•Jan 4, 2026
30‑Minute Vetting: Score Deals Before Selling
"I should be able to leave that meeting and say, I know on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely this is to be a real sales opportunity." Meet Jennifer Dulski, CEO of Rising Team. Rising Team has been...
By TK Kader
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Aim for Lasting Resonance, Not Fleeting Virality
Don’t try to go viral, try to be remembered. Every post, every ad, every email, aim for resonance with your audience. Ask: • Did this make them trust us more? • Did this change how someone thinks? • Did this feel like it came from...
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Jan 4, 2026
AI’s Rapid Growth Outpaces Data Center Energy Capacity
🔥 What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom 🔥 AI is scaling fast. Energy systems aren’t. Why this matters (and what’s next). ✅ Read my article: https://t.co/xQJPxsWnIu #AI #Sustainability #EnergyTransition...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 4, 2026
VC Returns Collapse: Only 7% of Deals Hit 3x
Yes, M&A is back. More deals are getting done. But per @SiliconVlyBank, VCs make 3x or more their money on just 7% of them That’s way, way down from 22% in 2021, and even 15% in 2019 https://t.co/5oeZOGTpNr
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Jan 4, 2026
30‑Minute Vetting Rule: Rate Sales Opportunities Instantly
"I should be able to leave that meeting and say, I know on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely this is to be a real sales opportunity." Meet Jennifer Dulski , CEO of Rising Team . Rising Team...
By TK Kader
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Scale Yourself: Leadership Lessons for Hyper‑Growth
“I like being scared” Molly Graham has worked for some of tech’s most effective leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg , Chamath Palihapitiya , Sheryl Sandberg , and Bret Taylor . She’s best known for her “Give away your Legos” framework and...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Jan 4, 2026
15-Step AI Learning Roadmap Simplifies Your Upskilling Journey
Learning AI can feel overwhelming — but when you break it down into clear, structured steps, the journey becomes achievable. This infographic captures a powerful 15-step roadmap, from foundations in math and programming to ML/DL fundamentals, NLP, RL, cloud deployment,...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Buyers Prioritize A‑Grade SaaS Deals Over Volume
It’s not deal volume—it's deal quality. Buyers want A-grade SaaS assets. B & C deals are stalling, valuations remain disciplined, and many founders decided 2025 wasn’t the year to sell. 🎙️ New SaaS CFO Podcast w/ Jim Williams ▶️ https://t.co/qRnBVxuCM5 https://t.co/gC773j9VyT
By Ben Murray
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Ask VCs Their Investment Odds to Save Time
It's totally OK to ask a VC at the end of a pitch meeting, "Based on what you know now, what are the odds you'd invest?" In fact, it can save a lot of time
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Clean P&L: Your Ticket to Premium M&A Exit
Founders often focus on the product and the growth, but in the world of M&A, a premium exit starts with your books. For sophisticated buyers, clean financials are virtually mandatory. If a founder can't produce a clean P&L on demand, it...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Jan 4, 2026
AI Expands Productivity Frontier; New Skills Required
AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines. Source @McKinsey Link https://t.co/Ej5vRN7zb4 via @antgrasso #AI #AgenticAI #Robots https://t.co/76sesFnorZ
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Build Pillar Pages for Topical Authority and Rankings
If your traffic is dropping even though your SEO looks clean — this is probably why: Google’s AI isn’t just checking if you mention the keyword. It’s checking if you understand the topic. Here’s the fix: Build topical depth. Create...
By Neil Patel
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Afternoon Hours Drive Highest Ecommerce Conversions
Here's how time of day affects sales and conversions. This data is from 200 ecommerce sites. https://t.co/gfiaDa6Pmb
By Neil Patel
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Master Human Psychology, Not Algorithms, for Sustainable Success
Study humans (not algorithms) Platforms change Tactics get copied Stuff stops working But basic human psychology? That shifts at glacial speed When you understand the timeless principles of attention and trust, algorithm updates won’t kill you You can always adapt and win
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Open Data: Strategic Edge for Innovation and Competition
Beyond its public value, open data reveals itself as a strategic layer for modern enterprises, where its thoughtful integration fuels informed innovation and shapes a more collaborative, intelligence-driven approach to market competitiveness. #OpenData #BusinessIntelligence #AI
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Hospitality SaaS Drives 20% Revenue Boost for Hotels
Vertical SaaS is crushing it! Live on @acquiredotcom: Hospitality SaaS helping hotels grow revenue by 20%+ through dynamic pricing and channel optimization. > $650K ARR > $675K TTM revenue > 250+ hotels using it Full listing: https://t.co/X1PgOV91Xs https://t.co/sz6jjMyyPV
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Agency Success Depends More on People Than Metrics
99% of being a successful agency owner is managing people and expectations. A majority of agencies out there can all fulfill the work. What sets great agencies apart is their ability to work with people (hiring, growing, retaining) and communicate well...
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Virality Happens When Frictionless Products Delight Users
If you could engineer virality with a product, every single person would copy it, and it would stop working. The only real way to create the infinite loop of virality with a technology product is to focus on removing all...
By Alex Hormozi
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Human Expertise Still Beats AI in Content Creation
AI and software will not solve all of your content production problems. Human Expertise Still Wins: The Real Story Behind Scalable Content AI tools promise instant content at scale, but the truth behind the scenes is far less simple. Software...
By A. Lee Judge
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Leaders Must Deploy AI Agents Themselves, Not Outsource
"#1 advice for sales and marketing leaders: deploy an AI agent yourself. Don't hire an agency. Don't tell someone on your team to do it. Deploy an AI agent into production, for real, yourself." with @lennysan "For junior sales...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Unmatched Cross‑platform UX Keeps Users Returning
ive cancelled my chatgpt subscription many time. unfortunately, there is no other app that matches the ux of chatgpt app on phone, web and mac. thats the only reason i keep coming back. google can do better. dunno why they...
By Abhishek Thakur
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Invite: Suggest Topics for Deep AI Podcast
Doing a long, super-technical podcast on the state-of-the-art in AI. Let me know if you have question, topic suggestions. Everything from details of LLM training pipeline & architectures, to coding, robotics, scaling, compute, business, geopolitics, etc. Besides topics & questions......
By Lex Fridman
Social•Jan 3, 2026
AI Agents Transform Chatbots Into Goal‑Oriented Executors
AI Agent = AI that reasons + plans + uses tools + acts to hit a goal. Loop: goal → sense → plan → tool use → act → eval → memory → improve. Core parts: system prompt, tools/APIs, short- & long-term...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Accuracy Isn’t Enough: Prioritize Relevance, Grounding, Faithfulness
Accuracy is a terrible metric for LLMs. And it’s the reason many AI demos look great but fall apart in real usage. LLMs don’t usually fail by being wrong. They fail by being: irrelevant ungrounded confidently misleading An answer can be “accurate” in isolation and still be useless...
By Louis Bouchard
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Turn Claude Code Into Your Chief of Staff
executives, managers of people, managers of process, managers of agents… get Claude Code to be your chief of staff by organizing a repo around everything you do and find ways to make it better and make it clearly documented
By Danielle Morrill
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Pick Vendors Who Actually Deploy Your AI Agents
So we have 20+ AI Agents running SaaStr now What criteria did we use for which vendors to pick? 👉 We picked the ones that helped us the most. Not the ones with sales folks that wanted to “get on a call” Not the...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Jan 3, 2026
AI Is a Multi‑Layered Stack, Not Just ChatGPT
Most people see only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI — tools like ChatGPT, generative models, and digital assistants. But beneath the surface lies a far deeper ecosystem: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Computer Vision,...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Jan 3, 2026
AI Masters Human Tools Faster than We Build AI Tools
ai seems to have gotten better at using tools made for humans faster than we’ve been able to create tools specifically for them it’s unclear why you would build an MCP (helpful only for agents) instead of a CLI tool...
By Chris Frantz
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Usage vs Subscription: Revenue Quality Drives Buyer Decisions
Subscription vs. usage-based revenue isn’t just a pricing debate—it’s a revenue quality question. Buyers are digging deeper into how usage models impact retention, predictability, and valuation—and the jury’s still out. ▶️ https://t.co/qRnBVxuCM5 https://t.co/woliqJLsLP
By Ben Murray
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Authenticity Beats Polish: Keep Videos Naturally Human
Videos fall apart when they’re over-planned. Perfect wording kills energy. Presence beats polish. 👉 Have a clear point, then speak like a human. The content that connects most rarely sounds scripted... it sounds natural. https://t.co/K0VEDYs8xn
By Eric Siu
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Leverage Loss Aversion: People Fear Loss Twice As Much
New Year’s resolutions. Black Friday sales. Everyone’s doing it. And we don’t want to miss out. That’s one form of Loss Aversion. The truth is, we feel losses twice as powerfully as gains. So we are more motivated to avoid...
By Nancy Harhut
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Scale Faster by Doing Less, Not More
The internet will convince you to keep scaling. More ads, offers, tools, everything. But what your next growth spurt comes from doing less, better? • Tighter ops. • Fewer tools. • Simpler flows. • Clearer offers. The cleanest businesses scale best, and they’re almost never the loudest...
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Jan 3, 2026
AI Transforms Energy Utilities with Optimized Operations
AI applications have the capacity to revolutionise the way we produce & consume energy Today AI is helping power utilities optimise operations like equipment maintenance & replacements, as well improving fault prevention & detection More 👉 https://t.co/j1qWzqgCEL @IEA #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Delay Sale, Build Predictable SaaS for Higher Valuation
When Samuel Abebe built @SpeakerSplit, it was just a side project to solve his own audio editing headaches. He had early offers to sell, but he did a counterintuitive thing: He said no. By waiting, he transformed a "utility tool" into...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Confidential Computing Secures Data Across Cloud and AI
Confidential computing strengthens data protection by using secure enclaves, encryption in use, hardware isolation and trusted verification, supporting private processing across cloud and AI environments through shared standards and alignment. Microblog @antgrasso #CloudSecurity https://t.co/dM7JbmMHpL
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Jan 3, 2026
LLMs Still Struggle with Reasoning, Knowledge, Understanding, Planning
Four important limitations of LLMs: 1. Reasoning 2. Knowledge or expertise 3. Understanding 4. Planning and execution Learn more: https://t.co/qs7PYuNc2I @mitsmr #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/v9NlLkpAHe
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Gemma AI Uncovers Promising Cancer Therapy Pathway
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkR5m @GoogleDeepMind #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare https://t.co/Surif36HUQ
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 3, 2026
AI Demystified: From Neural Networks to Deep Learning
Peeling back the layers of AI! This infographic unravels the complex world from Neural Networks to Deep Learning. Dive deeper into AI with the insights from @ingliguori's 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/2q6oTZuXqE
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Proof of Authority Beats Great Content Every Time
Great content isn’t enough anymore. Average content from someone with authority will outperform amazing content from someone unknown almost every time. Humans trust authority and Google’s AI reflects that. It surfaces people who look credible because that reduces risk for...
By Neil Patel
Social•Jan 3, 2026
5G, IoT, and Agentic AI Make Networks Self‑Thinking
Connectivity is no longer about linking devices, it’s about linking intelligence. When 5G, IoT, and Agentic AI converge, networks start thinking for themselves. 👉 https://t.co/95n8oVHSQl #AI #5G #IoT #CES2026 https://t.co/gVoKrcY9Zr
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Marketing Budgets Surge, Signaling 2026 Economic Confidence
The economy may feel like crap, but marketing is typically a leading indicator of where things are going. When companies are more confident, they increase their budgets. Which is exactly what’s happening in 2026. https://t.co/2ZZxcnmJ22
By Neil Patel
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Image Segmentation: Masks, Labels, and Pseudocolor Visualization
Image segmentation = dividing an image into pixel groups (regions). A segmentation model takes an image and outputs segments, usually as masks (more common than contours). In masks, each segment gets a different grayscale label, and we often use pseudocoloring to visualize...
By Satya Mallick
Social•Jan 3, 2026
Neuralink Could Restore Full Body Functionality, Says Expert
I am confident at this point that restoring full body functionality is possible with @neuralink
By Elon Musk
Social•Jan 3, 2026
2026: Pragmatic AI—Define, Demystify, Deliver Real Value
As 2026 begins, I’m setting a few simple goals for myself. No reinvention. No pivots for the sake of noise. Just a continuation of work that’s mattered to me for the last decade. Demystify. AI, automation, and agents don’t need...
By Ian Barkin
Social•Jan 2, 2026
Target the Moment, Not Just the Market
Smart marketers don't just target specific markets They target specific *moments*—the moment that makes buyers say “I need this now” Find your target moments, win
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Jan 2, 2026
PyTorch's 64‑bit Index Standard Simplifies Development
Pytorch made the right call standardizing on signed 64 bit indexes. I would probably still be rather pointlessly making case by case decisions to use int32 if it were an option. Some old habits linger.
By John Carmack