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Official Blog of Jesse Friedman

Jesse Friedman

Writer. Speaker. Innovator. Leader.

Writer. Speaker. Innovator. Leader.

NY — MA — RI

ARC

ARC came from Automattic’s first RSM (radical speed month) where my friend and colleague Derek Smart and I paired up to change the way we consume content from a website. For the entirty of the Internet, we have been viewing paintings in a dark cave with a flash light. You can only “consume” what you shine the light on and really have no idea whether the button you click is going to reap the results you’re looking for. ARC sets out to switch the paradigm. Instead of “pulling” content into your browser, ARC “pushes” personalized, but human-crafted content to you in real-time.

  • Human Authored; AI Inferred

    I cover how a month of building human-centered AI taught me less about machines than about the work only I can do. Twenty years of sales instinct, finally written down because a machine couldn’t run on the same instinct. And how this fed my ideas for a talk in Chicago about what happens when the…

  • Accepted to the AI World’s Fair

    I am very proud to announce that Derek Smart and I will be presenting ARC at the AI World’s Fair in San Francisco. Woven In: Building AI Around the Human Work It Should Not Replace Speakers: Jesse Friedman & Derek Smart Talk: How Automattic separated human-authored judgment from AI-inferred context and built ARC around the…