What’s the formula to put my 18 month old to sleep?
Ingredients list:
- 1 Son
- 1 Dad
- 1 Baby Bjorn (laces out)
- 1/3 of a Record on the Alexa (Repave by Volcano Choir OR Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd)
- 1 Dad Sway (stopping is forbidden)
Cooking time will vary.
Data is noise. Information is interesting, Knowledge is power. Insight is invaluable.
Everyone distracted by streaming services, device share, social dominance, etc.. is forgetting that Bezos now owns their corporate bathroom’s share of wallet too.
What would we do in the world without hosts at restaurants?
Have you ever been to a restaurant and no one worked the host or hostess stand?
It seemingly takes forever to get anyone’s attention – because everyone’s running around busy doing their jobs.
The folks in the restaurant are cooking, serving, working on the expo line, talking with customers, and just generally running the restaurant as it stands today – Serving the current customers, they’re too busy to look up and see the brand new customers waiting at the front of the store.
How many times have you left in a situation like this where you couldn’t get noticed fast enough. Now think back to the last time you went to a business to business type website. Were you met with a host or were you met with the wall of friction… with the wall of waiting… with a company too busy to look up from what they were doing to give you the time of day – and how many times have you left that experience because you couldn’t get an answer.
Even the times you pushed through how many times have you not gotten a response either in time (or ever)?
It’s these considerations we need to make as we design our own customer experiences and it’s time to consider how we can have a better host like experience with every customer interaction.
How to use emoji like Slack in any app on the Mac
If you find yourself looking for an easy way to use emoji on your Mac, you owe yourself a few minutes to check this out.
It makes emoji selection as easy as it is in Slack, but in any app.
“It’s a lot more convenient than tapping Control+Command+Space and the search works much better to boot.“
Get it here: Rocket – the best emoji app for Mac ➚
➚ inessential: The Under-Appreciated Awesomeness of Apple Events (the Technology)
In other words, great design…
the absolute genius was combining that with power-user features by way of progressive disclosure.
This meant that more power was there, but it wasn’t required in order to use the app well. But, once you needed it, you could find it. And that extra power was as well-designed as the rest of the app, so you could get the most bang for your click.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.2 | WebKit ➚
This will change how #martech and #adtech for the better. Important read here…
As of ITP 2.2, persistent cookies set through document.cookie are capped to one day of storage when both of the following conditions are met:
- A domain classified with cross-site tracking capabilities was responsible for navigating the user to the current webpage.
- The final URL of the navigation mentioned above has a query string and/or a fragment identifier. The rest of this blog post explores this in detail.
Go out and get it.
James Holzhauer: Why the ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Is Bad TV (Column) – Variety ➚
James is only the T-1000 of Jeopardy. There will be more T-1000s of many things from “before”.
“He is simply a more advanced player, a perfect one, seemingly sent from the future to dominate the show, and his personality as a TV character is frustratingly difficult to know, even by the standards of the breezily quick thirty-minute game show. More than most contestants, he is there to complete a mission. (His shout-outs to family and friends, written on each Final Jeopardy card, are the only real glimpses we get of the Holzhauer who existed before he took the “Jeopardy!” stage.)”
how to get more work done in less time ✅
Make Do Not Disturb work for you! Watch this #minutetutorial
How I’ve Been Approaching Podcast Recording
In this episode, I’ll describe how I’ve been making podcast episodes for both this podcast and the one at dialog.fm.
The workflows are very different.
I’ll also describe the equipment and apps that I use.
I don’t know what this is trying to say, but I do know it is indicative of the decline of the movie theater.
Of course the kids got their photos too…
Her last invitation didn’t have a Google “meet” link, and Bethany didn’t change settings. It has a business feel, and seems to have shown up after the @zoom_us IPO. Google getting nervous?
The True Cost of Customer Response via Seth Godin ➚
Waiting an extra day to get back to just one person probably costs you more than the entire day’s salary of a customer service salesperson.
Ending Robocalls. Game changer right here. My phone rings 1/10 of the time now. And I can see who it doesn’t let through. itunes.apple.com
RoboKiller: Spam Call Blocker by TelTech Systems
In the news of things no one wants:
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and the Google Assistant, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri
The first three episodes of our new business podcast Dialog . fm have dropped. Check them out and let me know what you think? #conversationalmarketing
Why isn’t Amazon turning Audible into the best podcast app? Half of podcasts feature Audible ads, and/or authors talking about their book. Seems like an easy win.
#AlbumSunday 1 Real quick though. This is important. volcano choir - repave (2013)