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Superlinear Returns

October 2023One of the most important things I didn't...

Setting the standard for support: What Spain’s new customer service law signals

Support teams in Spain just got the clearest signal...

Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

November 26, 2025 • Programming What do you think is gonna happen...

Heresy

April 2022One of the most surprising things I've witnessed...

2026 customer service planning series: Vol. 05

Capacity planning has always been a high-stakes exercise in customer service. If you get it wrong, you’ll feel it quickly in backlogs and SLAs. AI changes the dynamics of capacity...

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 Boulder Bookstore in the New...

The Airbnbs

December 2020To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb.What was special about the Airbnbs was how...

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 created or updated content to...

zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve...

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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Haul Try-On

We just did our insane move into our new house (after being displaced for 7 months, ahhhhh!) and lo and behold, a few of...

The Least Reliable AWS Region in 2025

This updated analysis is based on StatusGator outage data collected from January 1 to December 9, 2025. We decided to review our AWS analysis...

Gregory's Meridian Line in Saint Andrews, Scotland

A meridian is a scientific term denoting an imaginary demarcation line that runs north to south and is drawn for astronomical purposes. The...

Heresy

April 2022One of the most surprising things I've witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy.In his excellent biography of Newton,...