Collectibles Marketing Unlocks New Audiences and Revenue
One of the biggest opportunities most people are sleeping on in 2026 and beyond is using collectibles — and collectibles strategy — as marketing to enhance their relationship with current consumers, open up new audiences, and find new revenue streams. What’s most exciting is, whether you’re a mom-and-pop single creator, VC-backed, or listed on the New York Stock Exchange, this matters to you and your business:
AI Auto‑Responses: A Sales Strategy Mistake
I can't think of a worse sales strategy than auto-responding to social media posts with AI-generated comments that pitch your company. Bad look.
Interdisciplinary Communities Unlock Practical Wisdom in Responsible AI
Once in a while I write a quick post of appreciation for someone who has inspired me or my work. Today I wanted to highlight Jacob Metcalf who I went to back in 2016 as he (and his org, Ethical...
Replit Agent Powers Offline AI Voice Assistant on Mobile
these guys got @replit agent to build a fully local and offline AI voice assistant for mobile 👀
WhatsApp Adds Anti‑spyware Blocks for Unknown Media
Powerful new features announced by @WhatsApp today to defend against sophisticated spyware. Includes the ability to block attachments and media from people not in your contact list. https://t.co/nvd2F83n4Z
Robot Masters 1,000 Tasks After <24‑hour Demos
Scientists have developed an #ImitationLearning-based method that enabled a robot to learn 1000 distinct manipulation tasks from less than 24 hours of human demonstrations. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/T9EKphwp70 https://t.co/R3TFjfdUgd
Own Your Goals, Master Basics Before Experimenting
Dear marketers: "We own goal ourselves all the time" "Nail table stakes first, then experiment" Matt Amundson on... The Transaction .
Built a Replit App to Classify $10K+ SaaS Raises
Tomorrow, I'll release my latest tech fundraising report in my weekly newsletter. I categorized the software offered from my 4Q25 data points. I'll slowly work through my dataset to categorize the parent category and sub-category of software of 10K+ raises....
AI-Powered Content Suggestions Keep Docs Fresh Automatically
Support teams have always found it incredibly hard to keep docs/help centres up to date with policy & product changes, but it's more important now than ever before. Docs are load-bearing infrastructure in the AI era. Hence one of my...
Seeking Brands Collaborating with YouTube Creators for Content
For an article: I'm looking to connect with brands partnering w/ creators/influencers on YouTube content (be it a one-off vlog, an ongoing series, etc.) I know @Huckberry, @CAVA, + others do this (and would love to speak with their teams. ...
Helix 02: Fully Autonomous, Whole-Body Dishwashing Powerhouse
Introducing Helix 02 It's our most powerful model to date - it's using the whole body to do dishes end-to-end and it's fully autonomous https://t.co/jtUVCRIsLh
Bain Forecasts US Retail Sales Slowing to 3.5% in 2026
Bain & Co predicting a slight slow down of U.S. retail sales to 3.5% in 2026 https://t.co/wNVSeqUrE0
AI Witnesses Promise Faster Justice, Threaten Bias
Will our courts have AI witnesses? AI witnesses are AI systems that turn logs and sensor data such as car crash records, phone traces, building access logs, and video into a timeline and reconstruction that can influence court cases and...
2026 Banking Trends: Data-Driven Insights and Bold Opinions
Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale once said, “If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.” I have both--data and opinions--so let's go with mine on both fronts. See the 2026 What's Going...
Keep SKO Momentum Alive with Guides and Accountability
You put so much time, money and effort into your sales kick-off. How long after everyone goes home does it take for the after-glow to wear off? And more important than after-glow, is everyone staying accountable to what they were...
UK Trails Peers in Newborn Disease Screening Policies
Why is the UK so far behind peer countries in terms of the diseases it screens babies for at birth, diseases for which early treatment makes an enormous difference? @statnews 's @DrewQJoseph explores why. https://t.co/stNqZdcV94
IonQ Shines, but Quantum Thrives on Collaboration over Dominance
this is a brilliant play for ionq. the rest of the ecosystem, well... not so much. which is of course the point, but a thriving quantum ecosystem will rely on mutual collaboration and not dominance by a single firm. luckily...
Fewer Tools, Fewer Decisions, Tenfold Productivity Gains
⚠️ “10x productivity” doesn’t come from more tools. It comes from fewer decisions. This map looks impressive—but most teams lose productivity because of lists like this. Here’s how to read it strategically: 🔹 Categories ≠ outcomes Writing, SEO, coding, image,...
Unlock Real Productivity: Master Copilot Within Microsoft 365
Many enterprises tell me: “Our go-to chatbot is Copilot.” And then… they barely use it. Here’s the gap I see over and over again 👇 Marketers and sales professionals have Copilot—but don’t know how to use it effectively inside the...
Price for VAT Upfront or Lose 20% Margins
VAT will kill your international margins if you don't price for it upfront. Here's the mistake I see all the time: Brand launches in the EU. Pricing stays the same as in the US. Orders start coming in, and revenue looks good...
Brands Should Celebrate Underdogs, Turn Humble Into Luxury
Your brand should love the losers. That's why M&M's made diamonds out of peanut butter? Let's talk about THE RING OF COMFORT 🧵: https://t.co/9Bhtqw7zLR
Internal Battles, Not Market, Drain Founders—Lead with Gratitude
In the end It’s not the competition It’s not the lost customers It’s not the market changes It’s not the venture funding You can get past all that It’s the internal battles that wear you down The drama inside, not outside The ultimate unforced errors Go tell your...
Built Multiple Production Sites in 36 Hours with Claude Code
I spent about 36 hours with Claude Code over the weekend (was snowed in here in Dallas). Here are *all* the projects that went to Production: 1) I own the domain https://t.co/wXlXkIrr5p. I've always wanted to do something with it. So...
Immune Synapse Crosstalk Directs T Cell and Dendritic Cell Functions
How crosstalk at the immune synapse shapes T cell and dendritic cell biology https://t.co/DtqWi1PWhU https://t.co/Yw3sO2UgSX
A Few Hours Build Offers; An Afternoon Builds Ecosystems
If you have 2 to 3 hours, you can create an offer. If you have one afternoon, you can create an ecosystem.
New AI Service Enables Human‑AI Collaborative Development
A new AI service for developers built around developing together with others. Both humans and AI agents. Been talking with the company for the past few days and this is legit. Such a competitive space. Added to my AI Developer Tools list...
Inbound Leads Double Wins, Cut Costs, Boost Sales
You didn't start a company and become a Founder so you could sit down all day and cold email and cold DM people. What if your ideal customers actually came to you as inbound leads? What if they consumed your content,...
Efficient Quantum Operations Reshape Entanglement Theory
A wonderful and highly compressed medley on the consequences for quantum information theory when one is limited to computationally efficient steps at #QIP2026, impressively delivered by Lorenzo Leone and Thomas Hahn. If somebody had told me years ago that quantum...
Inherited Messy Bioinformatics Code? Learn Better Practices
You inherit someone else’s bioinformatics code. No comments. No structure. Variable names like x1, foo, temp2. And now it’s your problem. Let’s talk about that experience—and how to do better. https://t.co/RqCDNPwhMD
Physical Branches Shape Customer Perception More Than Expected
Consumers are used to seeing physical locations, even if they rarely go inside. Presence shapes perception in ways banks often underestimate. https://t.co/8MifwF83r7
From User Guides to Agentic AI Onboarding
Over 500 registrations so far for tomorrow’s AI Onboarding webinar with Mickey Alon ! Every SaaS company these days is claiming they’re "AI-native," but very few actually are. Most are just taking old SaaS onboarding and bolting on a chatbot....
Customer Success Compensation Lacks True Variable Incentives
How are Customer Success team's incentivized? Despite WHERE we tend to put CS on the P&L, they are NOT paid like sales I surveyed 132 companies on their CS compensation structures. And the VAST majority of CSMs are on plans...
Nvidia Fuels Europe's AI Stack with Massive 2025 Investments
Nvidia quietly went on a European shopping spree in 2025. 14 funding rounds, double the year before, backing names like Mistral, Revolut and Lovable. Excess cash recycled straight into the AI ecosystem. This looks less like opportunistic VC and more like long-term...
Delusional Audacity Beats Realism in Entrepreneurial Success
You need delusion. You need audacity. Sanity is actually a liability. Every entrepreneur I know was told they were being unrealistic. "That won't work." "You don't have the experience." "Why would anyone pay you for that?" The "realistic" people said...
Scatter Opt‑ins Everywhere; Users Convert at Different Moments
Put opt-in forms in multiple places because people decide at different moments. Not everyone converts at the top.
CT‑388 Dual GLP‑1/GIP Shows Potent, Durable Weight Loss
Didn’t know $RHHBY was in obesity? They are. Genentech’s CT-388 (dual GLP-1/GIP) showed Ph2 data (n=469) & it might be differentiated (TBD): >48w: −22.5% PBO-adj (efficacy est) / −18.3% treatment-regimen >BMIpreDM to normoglycemia: 73% vs 7.5% >d/c: 5.9% vs 1.3% >No plateau; clear dose-response 💡Mechanistic...
AI Agents Need Daily Training for First Two Months
"That new AI agent? You have to train it and work with it and improve it Every Single Day. At least for the first 30-60 days after deployment. And even after that, maybe every other day" with @kylecnorton CRO...
Strengthen Your Hook by Reading Punchy Headlines
If your hook is weak, read headlines until your brain starts thinking in punchlines again.
Cisco AI Summit: Inside Enterprise AI Build, Secure, Scale
Join us online for the Cisco AI Summit livestream. If you care about how enterprise AI is actually being built, secured, and scaled, this is a day worth putting in the diary. Cisco is bringing together many of the people...
AI Democratizes Analytics with Real‑Time Insight Agents
AI is transforming how organisations explore and understand their data. In this video, I show how natural language interfaces, real-time insight detection, and AI agents are reshaping decision-making and democratising analytics for everyone. 📊🤖 #DataAnalytics #AI #BusinessIntelligence #FutureOfWork #TechInnovation
AI Is Transforming Insurance From Buzzword to Reality
"AI in insurance" is probably the hottest trend in our ecosystem. → https://t.co/q1jVJEffNr Beyond the buzzword, it's a growing... reality ! This is my takeaway from the report we released a few days ago with astoryaVC. https://t.co/6qDiotJPQZ
AI Agents Trade Capability for Controllability and Reliability
AI Agents aren't as smart as you think.... Among production agents in the survey, 68% execute at most 10 steps before requiring human intervention, with 47% executing fewer than five steps. But there’s more. After constraining agents, 74% of models rely primarily...
E‑commerce Founders Prioritize Metrics over Resolutions
Everyone at the gym: New year new me. Ecom founders at the gym: Thinking about that 3.2% cart abandonment spike. Different mindset. Different life.
Avoid Price‑shopping: Package Value, Not Just Deliverables
If your “offer” is just a list of deliverables, you’re making it way too easy to price shop.
Pulse AI Launches Daily Curated Tech News Reader
For the past six months, I’ve been quietly working on an AI project in stealth. Today, the beta goes live. Try the beta here . Pulse was built to solve a problem most founders, operators, and investors feel daily: staying...
Essential ML Resources for Robotics Professionals
A curated list of resources about Machine Learning for Robotics 📍 [Bookmark or you’ll fever find this post again] Machine Learning is becoming a common technique to address robotics tasks. This repository intends cover this usage from a broad point...
Enterprise AI Stalls Due to Lack of Domain Experts
So is AI failing, or is it the management? Only 17% of Fortune 500 senior leaders have meaningful technical skills — just 5% ever held a technical role. That’s why the single biggest bottleneck holding back enterprise AI isn’t the tech. It’s...
VC Deals Flat, Funding Doubles – Concentration Rises
Per latest data from @cartainc, from 2023-2025: VC Deals Up Only 3%, But Dollars Up 130% From Q1 2023 to Q4 2025, the number of deals went from 802 to 823. Basically flat. But dollars deployed? $12.8B to $29.5B. That's 2.3x. VCs...
Introducing Infinite-Memory AI for Your Business
Claude and ChatGPT have very limited memories So I decide to build one with an infinite memory To remember everything about your business, goals, plans, etc. Try it and LMK what think -> https://t.co/KDuiuVY1GI https://t.co/4uuvWjUo8J
NASA's Spinoff 2026 Marks 50 Years of Innovation
NASA's annual Spinoff report -- Spinoff 2026 -- is out, celebrating its 50th anniversary. https://t.co/nXOeQdaTn7