New podcast recommendation: Surfacing Podcast. Really enjoyed the episodes with Dean Broadley & Whitney Quesenbery. Looking forward to listening to more.

These passages from Research Practice by Gregg Bernstein have been especially helpful lately: “Preparing stakeholders to be flexible” Janine Coover “Invalidating with research” Maura Youngman “Answering a really large question” Cyd Harrell “Finding your career path” Danielle Smith Thanks!

I appreciated that The Data Detective by Tim Harford both recognizes the value of statistics & encourages people not to be overly deferential. The stories and trade offs behind data sets often have meaningful implications & you don’t have to be a math wiz to dig into them.

"It 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 with Jewell Loyd, and it 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 with Jewell Loyd!" 💯🐍 Jewell B Loyd x #TakeCover

Today we celebrate a huge milestone. UserTesting is now listed on NYSE 🏛! We're excited to expand on our mission to empower organizations around the world to deliver exceptional customer experiences through human insight. $USER

Top takeaway: “there's so little data…actual capture data…of someone folding a shirt…folding a towel, or going around and doing chores” “a lot of the physical work will, I think, be generally untouched for a very long time” +1 for the NM connection 👍 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inv…

After listening: Less annoyance with the mild inconvenience of two factor authentication and significantly more anxiety about national infrastructure vulnerabilities open.spotify.com/episode/0D2gLe…

Their dual focus struck me as odd this early but per Fast Co they added scalability to their scope after recognizing that it’s “the most immediate pain point for users.” Recent events certainly emphasize that point open.spotify.com/episode/1J7NGM…

I’m looking for reasons to be less bullish on Pipe, particularly given the current economic environment. Didn’t find them here. open.spotify.com/episode/4tRJUm…

So one of Ramp’s strategies to save corporate customers’ money is to leverage aggregate customer spending data to solve for info asymmetry in B2B sales? Fascinating long term implications 🤔 open.spotify.com/episode/24AwlH…

The atomic network concept has really stuck with me. Probably because it was much needed back when I was working on a two sided marketplace 🙆🏼 audible.com/pd?asin=006296…

“it would certainly be ironic if the cord-cutting trumpeted by tech resulted in cable having even more leverage over customers and their wallets than the pre-Internet era” open.spotify.com/episode/18MsmB…

The Single Threaded Leadership content feels underrated relative to 6 pagers & PRFAQs. In fairness, those concepts are easier to import but they don’t strike me as the real magic. Decentralization was a huge investment & the commitment to it stuck with me most as a reader

My favorite ‘popular with listeners of (other pods I follow)’ discovery to date open.spotify.com/show/7EUnHS9G1…

Finally caught up on the story behind the merger. Certainly a less conventional way to achieve pricing power at scale open.spotify.com/episode/2F4osn…

Can’t wait! Last chance to join us in New Orleans for The Human Insight Summit…

“Lucky. It's better to be lucky than good.” -Ben It’s crazy how enough this was true of the NFL. Great episode 👍 open.spotify.com/episode/4wEQ68…

John Oliver's brilliant take on why he's voting for Kamala Harris. And he featured Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

We've got some big news: Heavyweight officially has a new home Pushkin Industries 🎙️. Tell your friends, your exes… tell the strangers on the subway! And be sure to subscribe to the feed to hear about new episodes. nytimes.com/2025/02/25/bus…