Here is a list of 20,000 startup ideas formulated from data describing economically important human activities included on the O*NET Online U.S. Department of Labour website.
Among the daily wisdom shared by Seth Godin this week was this gem about taking ownership of the work you are doing. So many problems occur in an environment of pass-the-buckery or siloed responsibility, this is how to fix that.
Jason Grigsby on Cloudfour posted an interesting article about how an misconfigured UI mask which caused the browser autofill of credit card details to fail on the Chipotle payment form, possibly costing them $4.4M in lost sales.
Wenbin Fang published an interesting behind the scenes post on the tools and processes he uses to run one person internet company Listen Notes. Listen Notes is a podcast search engine and playlist maker which runs on AWS and uses a host of SaaS products and web tools to stay alive.
AI generated voice mimicking software was used to persuade a director of a German energy subsidiary in the UK that their boss was on the phone and allowed theives to order the director to transfer funds to their bank account! This is believed to the first voice-AI assisted theft, so convincing that the director in question who made the transfer said that the software even imitated the tonality of the boss' voice.
Tim Nolet of Checkly published a helpful case study on how he captures feedback from his constumers on the SaaS product Checkly. The post describes their eperiences at using Hotjar to capture bugs from users, Drift chat to communicate with users, deploying a survey and a public roadmap of features.
This week I caught up with some episodes of The David McWilliams Podcast. I like the format of the episodes where his friend asks the (sometimes leading) questions which makes the content more of a conversation down the pub rather than a sermon in the church of behavioural economics. The stat man Finn also sounds a bit like The Viper, so I picture The Viper in a smoke filled room speaking in hushed tones over a laptop with Excel in full screen mode :-p.
The European Commission has released the results of the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2019 for all EU countries. The results track each country against the EU index across Connectivity, Human Capital, Use of Internet Services, Integration of Digital Technology, and Digital Public Access.