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The Ranking Factor Nobody Talks About: Effort

SEO advice loves to sound technical. People argue about backlinks, topical authority, Core Web Vitals, schema, whether “helpful content” is dead or alive, etc, etc. All of that matters. But there’s a...

Why Egnyte keeps hiring junior engineers despite the rise of AI coding tools

Egnyte, the $1.5 billion cloud content governance company, has embedded AI coding tools across its global team of more than 350 developers — but...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 437: How Startups Are Bringing Transparency and AI Innovation to Land Acquisition with Acres

SummaryIn this week’s episode of Startup Junkies, Maddison Tailor and Audrey Hickox...

Key Benefits of Corporate Training Development

Corporate training development provides numerous advantages that can greatly influence both employees and organizations. By sharpening skills, it helps employees achieve high-priority goals during...

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

July 2020One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinate system whose horizontal...

New research: Customer service team evolution

We analyzed 166 interviews with support leaders, managers, and frontline specialists to understand what changed once AI Agents like Fin became part of everyday...

U.S. Leads Global Data Center Growth Surge

If a data center is moving in next door, you probably live in the United States. More than half of all upcoming global data...

Give First Available in Audiobook Format

Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format (it will be officially released on 12/2/26).I’m the reader, so if you are an...

Why “which API do I call?” is the wrong question in the LLM era

For decades, we have adapted to software. We learned shell commands, memorized HTTP method names and wired together SDKs. Each interface assumed we would...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 436: Solving Agriculture’s Biggest Challenges Using Biotechnology Innovation with Joseph Batta-Mpouma

SummaryIn this week’s episode of Startup Junkies, hosts Daniel Koonce and Caleb...

What Is a Customer Sat Survey and Why Is It Essential?

A Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) is a structured tool designed to collect feedback about a customer’s experience with a brand’s products or services. These...

Top 5 Best Ecommerce Hosting Providers in 2026

When building your ecommerce store, you face several key decisions—one of the most crucial being the selection of the best ecommerce hosting provider. This...

Modeling a Wealth Tax

August 2020Some politicians are proposing to introduce wealth taxes in addition to income and capital gains taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of various levels of...

2026 customer service planning series: Vol. 04

Real-world example Anthropic ran a focused “Fin hackathon” sprint to improve their AI Agent’s resolution rate. The team audited unresolved queries, identified underperforming topics, and...

graydon2 | always bet on text

I figured I should just post this somewhere so I can make future reference to how I feel about the matter, anytime someone asks...

Capital Evolution: The New American Economy

My partner Seth Levine has an important new book out today titled Capital Evolution: The New American Economy.I saw it last night at the...

While everyone talks about an AI bubble, Salesforce quietly added 6,000 enterprise customers in 3 months

While Silicon Valley debates whether artificial intelligence has become an overinflated bubble, Salesforce's enterprise AI platform quietly added 6,000 new customers in a single...