A perfect use of AI

Issue #001

What up party people,

This is the new newsletter format I'll be trying out. More of a roundup style, inspired largely by Peter Kang's Consumed/Created.

  • Input: Things I saw
  • Output: Things I made
  • Insight: Things I noticed/am thinking about

Input:

Unanswered Oddities - A Perfect Use of AI
This was my favorite thing I watched this week. Someone used AI to imagine an "alien" version of Ancient Aliens, but on human life. I never thought I'd get to watch intergalactic TV in my life time. Quite the sight.

The LLMentalist Effect By Baldur Bjarnason
While I find a significant productivity boost from using LLM's in my day-to-day, this piece really captures the limitations. As someone who has dabbled with mentalism (4th grade me was obsessed with magic tricks), I found this validated my experience with LLMs.

This tweet from @cbell was a beautiful reminder


Output:

Startup Idea #020 - Become THE de facto Ghost Expert

GhostCMS Expert
Idea #020 - Becoming the unofficial standard of Ghost CMS

Becoming the Unofficial Standard like McDonald's Perfect Coke
Wrote a new Agency Confidential piece about what we can learn from McDonald's obsession with creating the perfect Coke.

Small Efforts | Season 3 Ep 1 - My First Impressions of MetaMonster
Small Efforts podcast episode of the week. First one of the year too! Talked about Andrew's new SaaS product and what I thought of it!

Small Efforts - with Sean Sun and Andrew Askins | Sean’s first impressions of MetaMonster
Andrew and Sean are back for Season 3!! Andrew’s onboarding his first users to MetaMonster, and as alpha user #1 Sean has lots of thoughts. Meanwhile Sean actually took some time off??? And he used…

Insight:

I have a sneaking suspicion that Pop Mart uses high-tech vending machines as a way to test locations. Once they see enough order volume and velocity in an area, they go and open up a store. Purely anecdotal (a Pop Mart just opened in a mall near me after only having a vending machine here), but wouldn't that be so incredibly smart??

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