A perfect use of AI
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
This applies to nearly any act of creative endeavor. Whether we frame by what’s absent or by what we can uniquely contribute often determines whether we move forward or give up.
— Christopher Bell (@cbell) January 6, 2025
Output:
Startup Idea #020 - Become THE de facto Ghost Expert
Sean Sun
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!
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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