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Experiments from Duck Times Labs — software products built from our own reporting. Not every signal becomes a product — only the ones with a durable need and a clear user.
Experiments
Century Signals
LiveA structural timeline of the century so far — patterns, breaks, and what still compounds.
Open the series →Signals Radar
LiveRising search interest and early topic spikes, routed into stories, Briefings, or Labs experiments.
Watch the radar →The Briefing
LiveWeekly consequential ideas by email — editorial judgment as a recurring system, not a one-off newsletter blast.
Subscribe →How a Labs path starts
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Signal
Rising attention hits the radar
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Report
Editors verify what actually changed
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Need
Durable gap, not a news-cycle toy
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Prototype
Ship a tool for the same audience
Labs
A Verification Workbench, Not Another Chatbot
Full Fact publishes its sourcing trail, not just its verdicts. A workbench should hold itself to the same standard.
5 min read
Labs
What Artifact Got Right, and Still Wasn't Enough
A personalized feed proved the wrong problem. Continuity is the harder one.
7 min read
Labs
Knowledge Tools for Organizations That Forget
Most companies do not have a knowledge problem; they have a forgetting problem search alone won't fix.
6 min read
Labs
CoachGPT and Honest Mirroring
A coach that only validates you is a mirror with bad lighting — the job is to say so anyway.
6 min read
TikTok Never Ends. Apple News' Today Tab Does. Duck Times Labs Is Betting on the Second Model.
For You feeds and Reels are engineered to never run out. Apple's own Today tab proves a bounded, curated alternative already ships at scale — Labs is testing whether readers want that experience on purpose, not just by default.
The Editors·Jun 7, 2026·5 min read
Amazon Writes a Six-Page Memo Before Every Big Decision. Almost Nobody Writes Down Why It Changed Later.
Amazon's memo culture captures the decision. Duck Times Labs is testing whether a git-style changelog can capture the part almost no organization documents: why a settled decision was later reversed.
Priya Sekharan·Jun 6, 2026·5 min read
Roam Research Made Note-Taking a Cult. Most People Left the Cult.
Tools like Roam, Obsidian, and Notion built devoted niches around manually maintained link graphs. Duck Times Labs is testing whether ChatGPT-style passive memory succeeds where deliberate curation didn't.
Priya Sekharan·Jun 5, 2026·5 min read
Wikipedia Solved This With Four Words. We're Testing Whether It Scales to a Newsroom.
"Citation needed" has flagged unsupported claims inline on Wikipedia for two decades. Duck Times Labs is testing a version built for claim-level uncertainty in original reporting, not crowd-edited encyclopedia entries.
Soren Lindqvist·Jun 4, 2026·4 min read
The Job Isn't "Show Me What's Trending." Google Trends Already Does That.
Duck Times Labs is building a public radar whose actual job is showing readers which spikes editors rejected and why — a job no existing trend tool, including Google Trends itself, currently does.
The Editors·Jun 3, 2026·4 min read
The Assistant That Tells You No
OpenAI's April 2025 rollback of an overly agreeable GPT-4o update proved sycophancy is a measurable product failure, not just a personality quirk.
Priya Sekharan·Aug 2, 2026·6 min read
ChatGPT's Memory Panel Is the Most Honest Editorial Decision in AI
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are each deciding, largely alone, what their models get to keep remembering about you — and GDPR was never written for a system that keeps reweighting the past.
Anya Volkov·Jul 25, 2026·6 min read
CoachGPT and the New Personal Development Stack
What happens when your most honest adviser is an AI that remembers everything?
Priya Sekharan·Jul 21, 2026·5 min read
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AI personal coach
Personal development is moving from scarce human coaches to always-on memory systems — with new intimacy and trust questions.
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Commentary
slow media
Audience exhaustion with real-time feeds is becoming a product opportunity for publications that treat speed as a vice.
Labs Path · Labs path