Bing spent more time acknowledging and validating people’s feelings. Humans typically responded by sharing a seemingly related experience from their own lives. Basically, the chatbots made the exchange about the person; the humans made it more about themselves.

Chatbots are effective in these situations not because of something they do that we can’t, but because of the mistakes humans make and they avoid. When we see someone is in pain, or when someone we care about shares a problem, we instinctively want to help. We offer advice, suggest solutions and rattle off how we once dealt with something similar.

When people adopt similar strategies, their connections strengthen. Consider “looping for understanding,” a technique in which a listener repeats what someone else says in their own words, then asks if their summary is correct—“Do I have that right?” Chatbots are natural loopers. When humans are taught to do the same, they do a better job of understanding what the other person is feeling and helping them feel heard.

People don't want their problems solved. They just want to be heard. Glad I'm not married to or working with anyone who commented.

A simple tutorial about effectively using pdb. Contribute to spiside/pdb-tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.

The 5-Cut Method for squaring table saw crosscut sled fences is the most common method for making your fence very square to the table saw blade. In fact, it can get as close as one thousandth of an inch (0.001") of accuracy.

The problem is, it's not the easiest process to follow.

I spent a few hours learning everything I could about the 5-cut method and made this simple and foolproof calculator to make the process so much easier.

This week I had the privilege of speaking to design students at two universities about my career. Here are some of the things I shared, most of which were answers to their questions.

5. Visual hierarchy is hard.

6. I know of only one way to successfully ship products and that is to ship imperfect products.

10. Creativity is storytelling.

Tell beautiful stories with your work! If you don’t believe you can change the world through design and the stories you tell with it, you’re selling yourself short.

I have been using DAP Alex plus caulk on trim for 15 years and covering with paint with no issues. Two jobs now and I’m getting these spider...

• I've been using dynaflex 230. It is not immediately paintable though. But I don't have any call backs from it cracking. It handles completely different from any of the fast dry stuff.

• We never have issues with Sherman Williams 950A and the 1050QD. Also, Big Stretch has a huge following. I just haven’t used it myself.

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