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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

TechCrunch

The tool grabbed some early eyeballs a few months ago via Product Hunt — where Chris Messina was among its early fans, lauding the team for shaking up the browser space by combining “so many components that are essential to finding productivity as a modern knowledge worker!” ” Everyone has an opinion on the $27.7B

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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

TechCrunch

The problem that Business Canvas has identified and is building solutions to target is the challenge faced by people who are tasked with ingesting information and producing writing or decisions based on that: lawyers, entrepreneurs, researchers, students and communications workers like journalists among them.

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond.

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Superpowered lets you see your schedule and join meetings from the Mac menu bar

TechCrunch

The idea for the app comes from four computer science and software engineering students from the University of Waterloo, who previously interned at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Asana and Spotify. The startup plans to add support for more integrations going forward, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and others. Team photo.

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Adept aims to build AI that can automate any software process

TechCrunch

“[W]ith Adept, you’ll be able to focus on the work you most enjoy and ask our [system] to take on other tasks … We expect the collaborator to be a good student and highly coachable, becoming more helpful and aligned with every human interaction.” .” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Buckingham/Goodall : We both know that if anything we suggest is to have value, it has to be grounded in the real world, and we’re both students of the real world. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Buckingham/Goodall : We both know that if anything we suggest is to have value, it has to be grounded in the real world, and we’re both students of the real world. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed.

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