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Frameworks: Progressions
This ought to be a series of posts around “frameworks” or such, but have no clue how long the energy will last for this. So let’s just take this one as it comes. Over the course of working for and with many companies, the idea that people should want to stick around is something many folks find challenging and yet… normal. Those who have ownership of executing or managing the overall vision have a vested interest in sticking around. Continue reading →
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Hopeful Breakthroughs in Wearables & Connected Tech
Am a part of the Brilliant Labs Discord and occasionally there’s some neat branches hitting discussions. Wanting to preserve a recent exchange, am posting it here (aka, POSSE). This is how we make connectivity work towards our imaginations… As usual, hit up our usual channels if you’ve got comments. Brilliant Labs: Happy New Year to everyone in the community 🎉 As we step into a year where smart glasses, AI, and wearable tech are moving from novelty to everyday tools, what developments or breakthroughs are you most excited (or hopeful) to see in smart glasses, AI glasses, or wearables in general? Continue reading →
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A Capacity to Dig, Wrench, and Fill
The end of the year is an interesting time of reflection and such. Where I might bend Avanceé to do similar - and share such a summary in the coming weeks - there’s often just a bit more lurking under the surface of these types of things: namely, what are you actually thinking about. For example, there was an excellent writeup of a company moving on from their content management system provider to something a bit more custom, brokered by using an LLM to figure out the gaps and code/craft the implementation points. Continue reading →
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Echos of Magic Wand
Years ago, when looking for new markets to explore, a friend presented a problem with his dealings with e-commerce administration and the resulting logistical, inventory, and the advertising activities. This was at time I was trying to figure out a number of things, some of which eventually became Avanceé. Came up with a really solid concept, and even partnered with some folks to find investors. But sadly, nothing happened of Magic Wand. Continue reading →
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Repair Assistants As the Better Wearable Acceptance Route
Between the newly announced iFixIt Bot and this inventive use case of a HUD for assembling IKEA products, one could imagine a nearly interesting scenario where a wearable/interface which provokes one to be less wasteful being a easier route for this tech’s acceptance than the translation, media consumption, and notification triage routes. A problem with wearables, for the non-techie, is that they don’t seem to solve a low-enough hanging fruit. Sure, being a memory aide is not a problem. Continue reading →
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Credits, Credentials, and Certificates
One of the consistent conversations this year has been aronud the value of “AI certifications.” Let’s be straight, we aren’t fans of certifications for most of these efforts. There is largely no insurance-type or union-type organization behind many of these, nor the history which backs the reputation a traditional certification would infer. And yet, they are here, so how do we navigate certifications? Should they be given credit for something/anything? Or, are the credentials something yet to be built, and the certification points to the building blocks of a reputation which can be built? Continue reading →
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Replacing Wipers and Wearable Tech Characteristics
Had this moment earlier today when I was replacing auto wiper blades and had the “would it be cool if my glasses could point to me the steps and the {hidden} button to get these off and the new ones on there?” The replacement blades had a QR code on there, obviously pointing to the reality of one carrying a camera-equipped, internet-connected mobile. But, isn’t this where connected glasses are supposed to be a better use case? Continue reading →
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Who Should Own the AI in Your Org
Am just getting out of a excellent networking chat and was presented with probably the most fun question to date about artificial intelligence (AI) in orgs: who should own the AI in the org? It is such a marvelous question because there such nuance to the answer. Many people see an entire service like Perplexity or ChatGPT and think that’s what meant. Others see the data which trains models as the same as the systems (agents, workflows, etc) built on top of them as the answer. Continue reading →
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Paying Attention to LLM (AI) Gaps
“So what’s been going on here,” you might ask. Having missed our weekly roundup (don’t worry, it’s back in a few days), there’s a bit of fun which we’ve been paying attention to in respect to “advancing tech operations.” One of those has been the continued push and usefulness of LLMs for smaller tasks. Not specifically the agentic stuff you might have been reading about, but smaller, focused items which augment our thinking and processing abilities. Continue reading →
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On AI Tools and Focus
One of the tools talked about during this month’s Sales Effectiveness Roundtable (Central Maryland Chamber) was the use of AI/LLMs to do some of the work of qualifying connections and business research. And while doing a “search” is normative, it’s more impressive when you can dive into analysis models which go a bit deeper to focus contexts for connections. One of the tools (when am on the Avanceé Agency R&D device) is a web browser called Dia (The Browser Company, Atlassian). Continue reading →
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