We’re excited to say that we just acquired another product, but just to screw with our internal coding system, it shares the same initials with our first one. 😅

Read about it: https://sidenotehq.com/blog/sidenote-2-sheet-best/

By the end of April we started feeling much more confident around our first product’s codebase (three months into owning it). We know what to build or revamp in the short term.

We’re also seeing some positive trends, but it’s way too soon to tell–that’s the thing with metrics and tiny products: we need to consider the law of small numbers when anything moves up or down.

https://sidenotehq.com/blog/update-april-23?ref=mastodon

Yesterday I had a number of conversations with people working in the scholarly publishing sphere about what happens when AI chatbots pollute our information environment and then start feeding on this pollution.

As it so often, the case, we didn’t have to wait long to get some hint of the kind of mess we could be looking at.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

This piece by @asmartbear is so good.

“Customers are where you discover how to upgrade your strategy. Since you know your initial strategy is wrong, following customers’ lead is how you correct it.”

https://longform.asmartbear.com/predict-the-future/

#business #strategy #prediction