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 Shkreli, award-winning Hamilton playwright Lin Manuel Miranda, and I all have in common? We went to the same high school. 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.
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.
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?)
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.