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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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Thoughts About Meta Connect’s 👓 Product Announcements
Shared this on a few other spaces, so it made sense to also note here. Pasted without much of an edit. excellent updates to the Meta-RayBans from a specs end. These have been a sneaky buy for many. the two Oakley models are solid. The HSTN remind me of the exact use case my Snap Spectacles have served for years the Oakley Meta Vanguard will make some run/hike/bike shops step up their game in terms of selling connected 👓 and the Garmin/Strava integration is 🤌🏽 I’d love to see bike computer head units connect directly to the Vanguard 👓 The Meta RayBan Display 👓 def stole the show. Continue reading →
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On Small Experiments
Was listening to a book review from one of our partners earlier and they mentioned a book which focused on adding small experiments into one’s life to help break down larger tasks, or remove the barriers causing procrastination so one can discover some other aspects to their processes, work, and/or life. This reminded of the consistent practice here of doing lots of research and experiments around physical-connected devices and spaces with a goal of looking at the ripples of identity, experience design, and social interactions. Continue reading →
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Next Up
We try not to make too much about the metrics/statistics of this effort. A good deal of what this initiative is about has to do with taking the diverse and innovative, mental, connective tissue of one person and turning it into exploitable opportunities for others. This tends to dissuade folks who may be looking at this effort as some kind of evidence of other artifacts or evidence of being able to be used for something else. Continue reading →
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Applying Lessons Using Dia Skills
We went back to the last article and applied a newly mentioned Dia browser skill by @FaCo9 to it. Impressive output… we might have a new “editor” on deck. We recommend checking the link to the skill to get all of the text necessary to reproduce it (and depending on your environments, you might be able to use this prompt within other LLMs Unlocking AI Engineering ROI and LLM-Powered Innovation When we experiment with large-language-model services, the same question returns: How do we make our work meaningful to real people? Continue reading →
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The Wisdom of Frameworks
Many years ago, had a wise person say to take the work and distill it into (reusable, compostable) frameworks. If I would do this well, it wpuld leave a distinct impression compared to others who might enter roles in more traditional methods (certifications, degrees, networking, etc). I’ve leveraged common, uncommon, and personal frameworks quite often to a positive effect because of that wisdom. Some days ago, Zapier’s chart of “AI fluency characteristics” came across the screen again. Continue reading →
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A Website, An App, or An Agent
Was getting ready for a network and research call when again having flashbacks of using the “secretary“ (Humane AiPin) as a research assistant and meeting prep device. I started to get discouraged and then moved over to the Brilliant Labs Frame glasses to try and shoehorn some of the usage there and thought about another context where it may be possible to leverage the connectivity to open AI, Perplexity, Gemini, etc. Continue reading →
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Thoughts on Procurement and Communication
Attended a minor business procurement conference recently and like many networking-oriented items, this was a lot of conversations, business card swapping, and hopeful contract meshing. Avanceé is not exactly within this side of space, but it makes sense to go to these affairs to get an idea of the technical and operational hurdles our target market identifies with. If you will, it’s not so much the folks looking to get work done we focus on, but those folks who technically and operationally have gaps where they might try to leverage better relationships or acquisitions to fulfill. Continue reading →
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Speed, Velocity, and Tempo
Having a conversation adjacent to a previous about the “three-legged table” - business, IT, and UX (or CX if you prefer the larger wrapper) - brought to the table a wonder if there’s something similar to speed (business: time to market, market response, product development, etc) or velocity (IT: build response, component maturation, product management viability, etc). The word which came to mind for CX/UX was “tempo.” Why? There is an orchestration which happens in measuring or managing the experience lifecycle of a product, program, or service. Continue reading →
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Avanceé Articles in 2025 So Far
Last year, we published a mid-year compilation noting the editorial-type pieces posted in the first half of the year. With 2025 a few weeks more than half complete, it makes sense to do the same for this year. Jan 2025 On Data Visualizations and Decisions OpenAI Operator Quick Thoughts Considerations and Certifications Feb 2025 Stumbling As Agility Update to Brilliant Labs Frame 👓 Experiment Opining about Human-Centered Design in Civic Tech March 2025 Timelines: March 2018’s Link Shares ♾️ An Inevitability of AI Doing Something Torque Wrenches Timelinses: Brigadoon Annapolis ♾️ You Aren’t Looking for A Coach April 2025 Timelines: Musings on Productivity ♾️ UX Solutions Architecture - Four Pillars Chatting about Muse Today Making AR More Useful On Perspective May 2025 When Do We Get to Molding Video: How Muse Fits Avancee’s Workflow A View of This Connected Time Articulating Something Through the Noise Peeled Thoughts Rarely Shared June 2025 Reviewing Past Fractional Clarity Clarity of Costs WWDC 25 Quick Thought on iPadOS Working with Refreshed Tools Difference Between What You Are Selling and What You Are Selling Continue reading →
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