I’ve Mentored People for 20 Years. I Use These 4 Steps to Help Them Advance
Use this four-step framework to turn mentoring into a two-way exchange that sharpens your leadership skills while you help someone else grow.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
When Growth Stalls, I Don’t Increase the Marketing Budget. I Reset the Business — Here’s How
A plateau usually means your business has outgrown its operating model, and this four-week reset helps you find and fix the weak spots before you invest in growth again.
Building Features Nobody Uses Is an Expensive Mistake. Put These 5 Principles in Place to Avoid It.
Most product teams struggle because the structure around ideas and team talent isn’t optimized for impact. Here’s how to get it right.
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Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
TechCrunch Mobility: A roadblock clears for self-driving trucks
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Dawn Myers is making it easier to style, detangle, and care for curly hair
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Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis
This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI’s often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft’s CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.