Wordpress Ghosted, Brain is Toasted

Happy February and Happy Chinese New Year to anyone who celebrates. Hope you got. Also, shoutout to the people who signed up for Copy Work, it means a lot that you tried it out <3. Would appreciate your feedback and thoughts - email me at sean@seanqsun.com if you get a chance.

Here's the format as usual:

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

Input:

The Most Hated Man In America: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli with Kyle Prue and Miles Bonsignore
Wanna hear a fun fact? What do Pharma Bro Martin Shrekli, award-winning Hamilton playwright Lin Manuel Miranda, and I all have in common? We went to the same highschool. I really enjoyed this podcast episode, not only for the content, but the format. I've gotten pretty sick of standard double-mic podcasts and other interview shows. This one broke my frame with humorous color commentary and a presentation style format. Soooo good.

The Big Flop: E71: The Most Hated Man In America: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli with Kyle Prue and Miles Bonsignore

Martin Shkreli jacked up drug prices, trolled the world, and bought a two million-dollar Wu-Tang album before the age of 35. But the karma (and real) police came for the Pharma Bro when the world caught wind of his price-gouging antics on life saving medicine. From hedge fund schemes to court-room memes, Martin earned the now infamous title of “Most Hated Man in America”.

Wondery - Feel The Story

My Favorite Korean Skit Channel
Somehow this ended up on my YouTube recommended and I've watched a ungodly amount of their videos since. Here's the first one that had me hooked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW7_ug2PkiA

Output:

Startup Idea #023 - Scratching my own itch here as an agency owner. Found myself recently wanting of a sitemap "monitoring" tool that maps third-party integrations to a website.

Startup Idea: Zeitmap

Idea #023 - A more automatic sitemapping tool that maps a website to third-party integrations.

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Worth Driving's Migrated to Ghost - I recently realized the Wordpress SEO experiment I've been running has gotten up to ~1,400 subscribers. Foolishly, I had mistaken the "Total Page Count" for "Total Users" so for the longest time, I thought the website had only grown to 70 subscribers. (Can you tell I mostly use Webflow?)

Worth Driving

Join the Miata community with Worth Driving - celebrate stories, culture, and the best aftermarket enhancements for Mazda Miatas.

Worth DrivingContent Crew

Ghost's Concierge Team made this migration so painless (and free???) that I don't think I could ever go back.

Also, ended up making a noob mistake in my excitement around the new site. I sent an email blast to the 1,400 subscribers telling them we moved platforms. Mind you, this was the FIRST email we've actually ever sent (because I didn't realize we had actual readers). Who has two thumbs and didn't put a single link back to the actual site? This guy.

Insight (?):

I've gotten really into Starcraft 2 lately. It's the most brain intensive game I've ever played–it feels like one incredibly complex optimization puzzle that also has a performance requirement. I can't fathom the speed at which neurons fire inside of pro player heads. I can feel my brain getting more wrinkly as I learn how to play.

Anyway, the reason I got into it was actually because of AI management.

I'm not sure what is actionable here yet, but I find the concept of managing multiple "workers" in Starcraft to be similar to managing multiple AI agents. Or rather, I want to imagine a world where we have moved past a chat interface with agents; I refuse to believe this is endgame UX.