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Welcome To Autumn – And Some Events

Amy and I love autumn. It’s crisp, harvest time,...

Why It’s Safe for Founders to Be Nice

August 2015I recently got an email from a founder...

Your plan B needs a plan B, with Nancy Lublin

NANCY LUBLIN: I went to see Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the theater. Tenth row center, sitting to my left: Donald Trump. Sitting to his left: some skinny...

Gaming support economics: A guide to maximizing ROI in the AI agent era

In the high-stakes world of gaming, support teams face a unique set of challenges. With global player bases across all time zones, dramatic volume spikes during tournaments and launches,...

A Blast From The Past – markbessey.blog

The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized I’ve been thinking about the UCSD P-System a lot lately, and I thought I’d write about...

AI Is Replacing Jobs in These Two Fields, Benchmark VC Says

Big Tech companies may not say outright that AI is replacing people, but one tech investor is — and he says two professions,...

Billionaires Build

December 2020As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were actually the same.The first is about...

Train Fin to behave like your best agents

Building a great support team takes time and effort. New team members need to learn about the business, how to interact with your customers, and how to approach resolving...

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‘I wish the stones here could talk’: an epic hike through Kosovo’s Accursed mountains | Kosovo holidays

There are stone bunkers shrouded in the mist on the hillside to my right, just shy of the ridgeline marking the Albanian-Kosovo border. To...

I’m Ensorcelled by Books by Friends

I love books. I love reading. I love reading books.Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in...

‘I worked at a place that gave you “points”… Every sick day:’ Employees share the most non-functional sick leave policies they’ve had to work...

Employees are sharing some of the most ridiculous sick leave policies they have had to work with and they make you want to smack...