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Synthetic Data Explained
🧠 Knowledge Series #57: Everything you need to know. Examples from Uber, Spotify, Grammarly. Tools and terminology and opportunities for product teams.
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Rich Holmes
ChatGPT Tasks, AI retention rates, DuoLingo's Mandarin growth
Plus: Shopify's lessons after 5 years of React, Gemini on Youtube, Tech chiefs book recommendations, object-oriented UX explained
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Rich Holmes
How to build an AI Agent
🧠 Knowledge Series #56: Your ultimate guide to AI Agents. Technical approaches explained, practical use cases and tools for product teams.
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Rich Holmes
Deep: New API products and strategies explored
New products, strategic decisions and the impact of AI on the future of APIs as a product
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Rich Holmes
Notion Faces, Stripe’s 12 product questions and Microsoft’s Copilot controversy
Plus: 2025’s fastest growing jobs report, Lessons from Spotify on how to measure internal AI tools, brain connected productivity tools.
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Rich Holmes
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Meta’s AI Slop, Spotify ghost music and the end of SaaS pricing as we know it?
Plus: Instacart smart fridges, 2025 forecasts, Tinder returns to growth
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Rich Holmes
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How to write SQL queries using AI
🧠 Knowledge Series #55: Get the data you need without having to be an SQL pro
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Rich Holmes

December 2024

Deep: The UX of Search Explored
How top tier companies are building in-product search capabilities - and how AI is impacting the future of product search UX
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Rich Holmes
YouTube Voice Notes, Google Veo and Grammarly’s new acquisition
Plus: 2024’s top mobile apps, How to design global navigation, a new tool for SaaS pricing
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Rich Holmes
The AI Playground 2024: 10 ways to get hands-on experience
🧠 Knowledge Series #54: Build dashboards, create songs, conduct deep research with Claude, Perplexity, Suno and more.
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Rich Holmes
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Reddit’s Anonymous AI Advantage and Gemini 2.0
Plus: How to write your own job description, OpenAI and Twitch’s losses, Google Docs’ 40 new templates
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Rich Holmes
How to use AI in Spreadsheets
🧠 Knowledge Series #53: Add some AI superpowers to Google Sheets. Format data, create market analysis, write formulas automatically and more.
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Rich Holmes
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