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Jacques Corby-Tuech
Personal blog · jacquescorbytuech.com/writingbusinessai
Jacques Corby-Tuech's personal blog at jacquescorbytuech.com covers business and ai. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Marketers are addicted to bad data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog in discussions of digital marketing criticism. One commenter says there is valid criticism to write about, especially the shadiness of the MarTech ecosystem, and the post echoes go-to-market frustration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Marketers are addicted to bad data2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-07
- Marketing and the Modern Data Stack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-07
What Hacker News says?
Hah, exactly what I was writing about here https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/marketers-addicted...
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on “Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend”Submitted Marketers are addicted to bad data as a story · 360 points
HN discussionIf you give it a try for audio editing make sure you record different podcast guests on separate audio tracks, makes the whole thing significantly better. I wrote a few thoughts on my blog about how I went about starting with the podcast including tools used, might be useful? https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/starting-a-podcast
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on “Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)”Submitted NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art as a story · 224 points
HN discussionI’ve written a few bits about that here https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/starting-a-podcast...
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on “Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots”Submitted Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem as a story · 129 points
HN discussionI use Pelican with hosting on Netlify. On my end I write a new markdown post and push it to Github. At that point Netlify takes over to rebuild and redeploy my site including the new post. It's pretty trivial to do. https://github.com/jacquescorbytuech/Blog https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/
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on “Medium is not the home for your ideas”Submitted Dear Email Industry, We've Got a GDPR Problem as a story · 62 points
HN discussionI'd buy some of their "10 Must Reads on X" books and see what you think about the quality of articles that way before commiting to a more expensive subscription. I read the 10 Must Reads on Communication book last week and 4 of the 10 articles were particularly good, the rest were quite milquetoast. I wrote some thoughts here: https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/reading/hbr-10-reads-on-co...
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on “How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)”Submitted What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI wrote about this a few years back on my blog, but yeah, in my opinion the general problem with a lot of digital art (generative or otherwise) is the lack of physical artefacts that come out of it. https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/writing/irl-proble...
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on “What Is Generative Art? (2022)”Submitted OKR's, YouTube and the Danger of Unintended Consequences as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is something to be said about tangible things, but that’s not an NFT problem, that’s a digital art problem. I actually wrote a thing about it on my blog today https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/irl-problem-digita...
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on “There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]”Submitted What Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt’s a through line from an article I posted last week about the similar situation in email, which has a lot more depth as inbox providers have substantially more published papers and patents showing their intermediation. https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-google-yahoo-... The next post will be highlighting the difference between the actual state of the art techniques being deployed by large tech co’s (L…
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on “What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications”Submitted NFT's Aren't the Answer to the IRL Problems of Digital Art as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe difference is that YT and similar tech platforms have access to much more data which allows them to optimise (or not) for these outcomes. I wrote a thing a few years ago after reading one of the case studies in John Doerr’s OKR book that used YT as an example, I think the point I was trying to make likely still stands https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/okr-youtube-uninte...
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on “YouTube Blocks Russell Brand from Making Money Through Its Platform”Submitted Garbage In, Garbage Out as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI dunno. There is a lot of valid and interesting criticism to write about digital marketing. Lots of people have attempted to study the efficacy of digital advertising, and I'd love to see a deep dive into the "MarTech" ecosystem and how shady much of it is. Anyone who has had to work on the go-to-market side of a company knows the general feeling of frustration the author is experiencing. But this post reads like a…
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on “Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)”Submitted Digital Marketing in the Age of the GDPR as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Throw Data Governance Out with the Bathwater as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Value Does an Artist Have? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sideloading Books on Kindle with Goodreads Integration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Personal Research Library as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why segmentation in marketing isn’t always the answer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warhammer 40k Digital Strategy and Opportunities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warhammer 40k Digital Strategy and Opportunities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft Editor, an Alternative to Grammarly's Keylogger? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marketing/Analytics cookies by default are not GDPR compliant as a story · 2 points
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