Claudia Strauss-Schulson has been running Schulson Autographs, which sells historical documents like letters signed by presidents or a doodle by Marlon Brando, for around 15 years. Strauss-Schulson, speaking to me from Millburn, Ne…

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Introduction from Jon Haidt: Ravi Iyer first contacted me in 2007 to ask if he could take a questionnaire I had developed (the Moral Foundations Questionnaire) and put it online. Ravi was a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Southern California at the time, and he quickly became a close research collaborator and friend. He created the website

Welcome to the Friday edition of How They Make Money. Over 100,000 subscribers turn to us for business and investment insights. In case you missed it: 📊 Earnings Visuals (4/2024) ☁️ Amazon: Wild Margin Expansion ⚙️ Semiconductor Titans Visualized

Brought to you by: • WorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Mercury—The powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank • OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster — Jag Duggal is chief product officer at Nubank, a decacorn neobank founded in Brazil. It’s valued at over $30 billion, is bigger than Coinbase, Robinhood, Affirm, and SoFi combined, has 100 million customers (more than Bank of America!) while only operating in three countries in Latin America, and 80% to 90% of its growth comes through word of mouth. Prior to Nubank, Jag was a director of product management at Facebook, a senior vice president at Quantcast, and a product leader at Google. In our conversation, we discuss:

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Have you tried to get information on a product or service from Google recently? Good luck with that. “Product recommendations broke Google,” declares tech journalist John Herrman, “and ate the Internet in the process.” That sounds like an extreme claim. But it’s painfully true. If you doubt it, just try finding something—anything!—on the dominant search e…

A lot of banter, rants and everything is happening in marketing. As my newsletter on next Friday isn’t about it. Until then, I suggest reading Bianca Dămoc’s write-up on the SEO drama. Why Join: If you are on your phone, always looking for ideas. Being in Discord Community of 300+ marketers help.

Hey all, Just a quick note to say that I’m starting to offer some new benefits for paid subscribers of To the Bone, and to tell you why. In short, Google just flipped a table on my life last week. With the advent of AI in Google search results, my very business model is now dead man walking: When th…

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Top News Project Astra is the future of AI at Google Google's Project Astra, a real-time, multimodal AI assistant, is the future of AI at Google, according to Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind. Revealed at Google I/O, Astra can identify objects, answer questions, and assist with tasks in a conversational manner. The project is part of Google's G…

Hello Everyone, I was more interested in Google I/O this year than usual in 2024. Google like OpenAI, really hit home with multi-modality and longer context windows. But it’s the multiplicity of Google’s product upgrades that is so multi-faceted, fascinating and frankly confusing.

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My God. Tonight, more reporting from Jodi Kantor, joined by Aric Toler and Judy Tate at The New York Times, on Justice Alito’s flag-flying practices. It turns out that in the summer of 2023, the Alitos flew an "Appeal to Heaven" flag at their summer beach house in New Jersey. The Times reports that “Three photographs … along with accounts from a half-do…

CW: infertility, mental illness, trauma, childbirth. Three years before I quit Google, my income tax statement showed a number I thought I was dreaming. I'd recently gotten divorced and promoted to L6, so, high on freedom, I bought a three-bedroom house right across from a park in Redwood City, all cash.

Hi everyone 👋, Jordan here. I’m excited to feature Akash Mukherjee , Staff Engineer at Apple and author of Leadership Letters, a newsletter growing you into a better leader in < 10 minutes each week. Akash onboarded at Apple one year ago and Google before that. He’s made mistakes that

The day Google Search died We search a lot for our work, and while Google Search was our default, we never liked the experience and…

Hi Fintech Futurists — Today we highlight the following: AI: The Next Generation of AI Agents with Google's Project Astra and OpenAI's GPT-4o LONG TAKE: Temenos launches AI and FIS does Banking-as-a-Service, acquiring innovation PODCAST: Building Artificial Intelligence we can trust using ZK Proofs, with EZKL CEO Jason Morton

Last weeks Google IO conference was a showcase of all their new AI tech coming this year. I have extracted the best bits for you. Google Astra This is a project from Google Deepmind designed to showcase AI agents in everyday life. It responds to voice and video input and can remember details from the scene. For example, you could video you living room and…

My most viral post came thanks to Chris Evans. Captain America is one of the good Chrises. He’s from Boston, and has a gay brother. He retweeted my short piece about why a straight pride parade in Boston was stupid and it blew the fuck up. This is the post, in case you never saw it:

This week’s short sketch looks at 3 easy steps you can take to beef up your privacy. It’s aimed at beginners, and providing basic first steps they can take to improve their privacy online. These are products and services that I use, but if you have other recommendations please share them with the community in the c…

Google’s NotebookLM is a new free service that lets you apply AI to your own notes and documents. You can use it to surface new ideas and find fresh connections in your thoughts and research. Read on for how I’m using it, what I like most about it, its limitations, and two interesting alternatives.