2025 gratitude post... Feedback:

Thank you for your unsolicited feedback. Feedback that was hard to give but you gave anyway. Feedback with context about your goal or what you have tried so far, because that takes an extra minute. Showing up for paid user interviews even though you had no idea what that is. Founders: thank you for confessing you think feedback is cheating because you should know the answer. But then being curious about feedback from users who use your software in a way you don’t. Thank you for letting me put you on a panel with others seeking feedback from the same busy users at Stanford Entrepreneurs. Data Scientists: thank you for interviewing me for #productmanagement at FAANG to connect you to customer feedback. Thank you for being real humans and please, please keep the feedback coming straight and to the point, unedited by you or AI. Thank you for debating and not agreeing with me, as I like that more than most people: innovation is my joy. Word!

Thank you for trying AI. Thank you for taking a chance with your brand and video AI, for trying and hating your avatar, then starting selfie videos, and then going to back to your avatar. Thank you for being honest that you will always hate how you look in a recording, even when when others are like-like-liking it, as that is the most common reaction ;). Tech software engineers: thank you you for trying to be creative when you are technical. Creatives: Thank you for trying AI when you are creative. Thank you for jumping into the overwhelm of AI tools, while still doing your job, or “flying the plane while jumping out of it”. The new mantra isn’t “A person using AI will take your job”, it’s “Try to see if AI can do your job”.

Thank you for referring me to others who have more video than they know what to do with. Your intro is what keeps me going as a solopreneur. Thank you for commenting on my posts in addition to thumbs upping and taking that leap to show you got some value out of it Retail Women in Tech. Even though you don’t usually do that, or are just trying to get off at the right stop on the subway.

For busy professionals, not being busy is hard! 2025 has been full of prioritizing for me and slowing down to do so. If your feedback to me in 2026 is prioritizing and slowing down, I will thank you heartily. How do you prioritize, yourself? Thank you for being yourself and you “doing you”!

Last post of 2025, I wrote this without AI, mic drop, going to Jungle Island --> Happy new year.


FEEDBACK EVAL FOR AI :

1. What I did not like about this AI:
a. My voice sounds robotic and repeats words
b. My avatar’s eyeballs are too slow

2. What I liked about the AI:
a. It kinda sounds like me and I would rather use AI because I would never take time recording, focusing on writing instead. Thanks Happyverse & Heygen.
b. I like the animations turning my headshot into different animations, great for social. Thanks Pika.