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Personalizing the News: Lessons from 20 years of transforming data into personalized insights for voters, home buyers & Fortune 100 companies
Today, when we discuss personalization, most people tend to think of it from a Netflix or Facebook perspective, where the content itself is not personalized, but instead an algorithm recommends content for you to view. The much, much bigger opportunity is to provide personalized content that provides insights targeted to their specific situation and needs,…More
Minimum Viable Replacement: Why it’s critical to design & architect for the 1% when retiring legacy technologies
When is it wrong to focus on the 20% of the use cases that meet the needs of 80% of your customers? When your goal is to develop a Minimum Viable Replacement, i.e. retire and migrate all of your customers off an existing system. Unlike in the scenario of an MVP, where your goal is…More
How to improve your luck when it comes to finding jobs, dating, selling, etc., or why persistence is more important than preparedness
If luck is when preparation meets opportunity, what’s the best way to improve your luck, i.e. overall odds of success? Unless you are in a situation where you have a less than 1% probability of success on a per attempt basis, then focus on increasing your number of opportunities/attempts. As the chart shows for binary…More
