Scrolling Twitter after a long time.
I feel like a caveman who just saw a light bulb. It seems familiar and fascinating, but also something entirely new.
I should pick up everything I've been putting off. So hopefully, I'll be posting a bit more here and keep you guys updated.
Interesting things might be on the way!👀
Consumption alone is a dangerous drug.
It gives you a satisfaction that you did something while you don't really do anything.
Reading a 10k word blog about growth is great, but if you don't do anything it says, it's not worth much. Easy to fall into this trap.
Creation is the only metric you should be looking at.
They are two sides of the same coin, but without creation, it's one-faced coin with no value, after all.
We've been working on this for some time now.
Up until this point, we've made systems to automate newsletters, rewrite blogs and news in our own brand voice (from other sources :P), use a long form video to generate short form and other forms of content, etc etc.
Let's see where this goes.
"Eventually, we just made it a core value. It’s “and,” not “or.” You can’t pick or choose. We must grow, and we must become more profitable."
https://t.co/NQlijoaePT
So you've created your app in public.
I've created a GPT to roast your idea in private.
Give it a try, see if your idea is actually solving a problem. 👇
Starting to work in an industry that you have absolutely no knowledge of is always hard.
I recently started setting up CRM systems for Mortgage people, and it's proving to be quite a challenge.
Have you had a similar experience when working in a new niche?
Compared to a couple of decades back, talking to people is way easier. And yet, we're farther with everyone than ever.
There are no real connections. Everything lives in 1's and 0's.
Our days start with notifications. Our conversations have words but no meanings. Most of our relationships are defined in bits.
I won't/can't say in particular what went wrong (if anything). But one thing's for sure: the technology progressed faster than what we were ready for. And it has left a hole in our hearts.
We are trying to optimize everything; make every single thing efficient -- from work to interactions.
The more I think about this, the more I come to the conclusion that not everything should be efficient.
Sometimes, effort counts more than efficiency. And maybe the hole was formed because we chose to ignore this.
Among vain attempts to make connections, we forget that effort is non-negotiable. It's what counts. That is the only thing that the other person makes a note of, even if subconsciously.
With an ever-increasing focus on building new things and optimizing existing stuff, I hope we don't lose sight of the things that make us human -- most especially the ability to make an effort where it doesn't make sense.
7/90 automated tools I'm creating in 90 days
A GPT that writes (formatted) newsletter.
We used to send a monthly newsletter to our audience.
To make the process easier, I'd created automations that wrote parts of the newsletter.
That saved us hours of work.
But...
So, I'd:
- talk to it
- give it whatever it needs.
And it'd:
- give me a fully formatted newsletter issue that I can directly post.
This isn't the ideal way to do it, but spare this tired soul, trying to put out something each day.
If you want to test your design skills and create landing pages, give it a try: https://t.co/g5wTdVnmyk
Just reply or DM if you want to automate anything in your design process.
6/90 automation tools (i'm building in 90 days)
Landing page brief generator
One of my designer friends was complaining to me about how he has to spend a lot of time thinking about copy and other details of a landing page when he wants to test new ideas in design.
So, I created a simple GPT in OpenAI that generates a detailed, and very specific brief for a landing page (or its component).