Interesting Links for 17-02-2026

[andrewducker]

1. The psychology of pricing luxury

(tags:luxury business psychology )

2. A brutally honest take on AI productivity

(tags:ai productivity coding software )

3. Happy 25th anniversary "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"

(tags:history meme video )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Thank you!!!

[andrewducker]

Welcome!

[sonia]

Thank you for the AI link! Glad to see the honest take after attending a 1-day AI conference that was ignoring everything in that article. It felt like visiting Wonderland or Oz, and not in a good way.

[andrewducker]

Pleasure! It's very frustrating seeing nothing but hype.

[teaotter]

Luxury pricing -- or rather, the way that price affects perceived value -- is something I have to grapple with professionally. If I don't charge enough, potential clients assume that I can't give them a high-quality product.

[adrian_turtle]

That distinction between "I'm too expensive" and "you can't afford me" is a real challenge when I was providing a service to people who didn't have a lot of money. I found it felt very different to charge $20/session than to charge $40 for most sessions, and do a few sliding scale or free (but be very clear that "this is a $40 service that I am donating."

[andrewducker]

Definitely a tricky one to navigate.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. There are products and services I've avoided as "There's no way that the quality is going to be high enough at that price." Good luck navigating it!

[channelpenguin]

SUPER THANKS for Number 2 (seems the appropriate ordinal for AI...)

[channelpenguin]

also satisficing is absolute SENSE in terms of our nature as an animal. Evolution is gonna favour it HARD.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely!

[channelpenguin]

"The bottleneck has never been typing speed."

Thank the Lords of Kobol (or COBOL??) for that!! I type woefully slowly, badly and breaking my righ thand in a motorbike crash in 2011 didn't help. I makes me think more to minimise what I have to type :-) Or so I think.

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[channelpenguin]

wait? CATS said the iconic phrase??? That make MUCH more sense.... They are right, of course.