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Lensa AI (Product Review)
My summary of Lensa AI before using it – Lensa is a new AI app that lets users create avatars of themselves. How does Lensa explain itself in the first minute? – When I search for Lensa AI in the app store, there are visuals of avatars and examples of using Lensa AI for professional…
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“Discovery Discipline” (Book Review)
The so-called “Double Diamond” is a method that guides a lot of product discovery. The idea behind the Double Diamond is to go through phases of divergence (generating lots of ideas) and convergence (narrowing down the number of ideas). When doing product discovery, you apply convergence / divergence to a problem and a solution. Tristan…
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Temu Pinduoduo (Product Review)
“Shop Like a Billionaire” reads the strap-line for Temu on the Google Playstore. Temu is a new eCommerce platform, operated by Pinduoduo, China’s second largest shopping app. In September ’22 Temu launched its mobile app and website, which are both available to US customers only. Temu offers products in a number of categories, ranging from…
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Google’s MusicLM (Product Review)
Listening to some of the music samples generated by text, and you get a good idea of what Google’s MusicLM has been designed to do. Here you can find 30-second snippets created from descriptions that list a genre, specific instruments or a vibe. MusicLM uses a large dataset of unlabelled music and captions from MusicCaps…
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Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology
Ever heard of Melvin Kranzberg? Kranzberg (1917 – 1995) was a professor of history of technology at Georgia Tech. Kranzberg is best known for his Six Laws of Technology: Whilst created back in 1986, Kranzberg’ six laws of technology still very much hold true today. I’ll elaborate on some of these laws and highlight their…
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