I tested Claude Cowork to change design of my research portfolio to Apple liquid design, output was not useful and I ran out of credits and as a test I gave it to Gamma also and that was better but too cheeky & not useful #claude #cowork
Whole Foods has gone down the toilet in customer service to save every penny only self checkout lanes in Los Altos don’t they believe in employing humans any more
In grad school I once spent hours debugging a missing semicolon in SAS. Yesterday I gave Cursor a raw SPSS file, no codebook, and it ran a full regression and discrimination analysis from plain English prompts in an hour barrier to quant research just disappeared #cursor
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This game is a snooze fest #superbowl
I am tried of reading docs that are written by ChatGPT it's so easy to tell, forget the em dash, the best way to describe the tone and language is banal, it's so average that it's absolutely uninteresting and lacking any originality. AI Slop is exhausting.
Wrote another blog post on how Gen AI is changing research and design leadership - happy to have combined my two loves - space and research for this blog
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Took a short R&R trip to wine country, thankful for living in beautiful California where mountains, ocean beaches and wineries are all driving distance
Here is my take on how AI tools can help with UX research and where they fail manipande.medium.com/uxr-is-dead-...
Seriously @workday.com has one of the worst UX so hard to use it as a manager, why do I need to run a report to see if my Head count was created, it was designed for admins, made self serve, but that chasm remains
At the top, a participant of the Mascara Festival smiles while wearing traditional attire. In the bottom, people smiling and dancing during the Sandurot Festival. Text says: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia!
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Has anyone experienced this, Apple Watch is clocking more calories spend in same exercise routine this year wow I can spend almost 160 calories with 30 minutes on elliptical and it used to be closer to 100
My LinkedIn feed is full of people with updates about starting a new job, heartening to see folks getting new jobs, job market in tech has been hard
I asked Claude @anthropic.com some easy questions about passport card renewal and it hallucinated and gave me several incorrect responses
Happy 2026!! Hope it's a great year for everyone.
Every medicine has a high copay even if it's a tier 1 medicine, you think you have got a great plan with $250 deductible but you end up paying so much for medication co-payments and these don't count towards the deductible
There is also a new racket of classifying medications as Tier 1, 2 and 3 and then rejecting any medication that is classified as Tier 2 and 3
This despite the fact that other insurance was also United Health Care and I could see it in my account that it had terminated
United Health Care is an evil company after I got my insurance through my new employer 90% of claims were rejected because they claimed I was still covered under my former employer
To-let sign in India which means available for rent can be confusing to a jet lagged mind
Some photos from Chennai and around, my first time visiting the city, lots of charm and some chaos
In b2b world some customers pay millions of dollars, do you really want to use bots to talk to them, you can't afford an hour to get their feedback, I don't remember the last time I preferred talking to a bot to share my feedback versus a human
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop... Really I am not that lazy that I can't find an hour to talk to a customer, what happened to customer centricity
we have called our discipline human centered design, and taking out humans from the design process including research to save some costs will lead to poor experiences in the future
Happy thanksgiving personal size Cornish hen are a great substitute for turkey
Made the decision to unsubscribe from ChatGPT and move to Claude since Anthropic supports AI regulation
Stewart makes a great point that it's on the executive to decrease hyper-realistic work activities in their department, unfortunately many executives believe that their work is showing to their bosses how great they are doing through endless presentations
This is such a good description of some of the work that I have done at big companies hyper-realistic work activities where you are creating work that has low values, best examples are presentations that require multiple inputs and dry runs www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLe-...
Discovered Avalanche by Leonard Cohen, what a great song, he was such a prolific and amazing composer hallelujah!!
Lately I was forced to use AI Assistants and Agents in apps like Gusto or Firstbase and have been severely disappointed, unfortunately, they create more work and lots of time spent on undoing the mess
