Wordpress Ghosted, Brain is Toasted

Issue #004

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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”.

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.

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.

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.

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