Ashley Brasier

Ashley Brasier ↗

AI (Horizontal) · Education · Retail & E-commerce · Consumer · Data & Analytics

• I Thought I Was Talking to a Person↗ 19 Oct 2026
  Ashley Brasier introduces the Awareness × Disclosure Matrix, a framework for understanding when AI interactions build or erode trust. The core insight: undisclosed AI damages relationships by violating expectations and creating asymmetric investment—companies must disclose upfront to stay in the "Informed" quadrant.
• Befriend Your Librarian: Wise advice from Maya Angelou↗ 15 Oct 2026
  Librarians possess irreplaceable skills for the AI era—they excel at turning vague information needs into precise queries and evaluating source credibility, while stewarding vast undigitized archives that search engines and AI chatbots cannot reach.
• The Estate Sale Boom, and What It Means for Retail↗ 14 Oct 2026
  As boomers downsize and Gen Z seeks meaning over convenience, estate sales boom. Retailers can compete by injecting discovery, legible quality, and storytelling into their formats—think Costco's treasure-hunt merchandising and Patagonia's repair narratives.
• The Unpublished Past: Why AI Companies Should Help Bring Archives Online↗ 1 Oct 2026
  Archives contain vast unpublished human experience—letters, diaries, photographs—that remain largely undigitized and invisible to AI models. AI companies should partner with institutions to fund and scale digitization, both to enrich AI training data and democratize access to irreplaceable cultural records.
• Extreme Makeover: Boomer Edition 8 Jun 2020
• The Goldilocks Effect 8 Jun 2020
• Thinking Inside The Box 19 Dec 2019
• What are you drinking? 11 Sept 2019
• The Customer is (Not) Always Right 27 Aug 2019
• Meet The Middlers 22 Jan 2019

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