Chat GPT-4 just came out and the FOMO has grown exponentially.
Everyone is trying to figure out how they can make money with AI and/or how AI make take money out of their pockets by replacing them.
I get it.
But I don't share that perspective. True to the operating system underpinning The Guardian Academy and Certainty U, I have one question. Instead of "how can I not fall behind?" or "How can I make more money using this (so that someday I can maybe have the things that I want)?" my first question is:
"How can this make my life better?"
MidJourney has made it easier to move some projects forward without passing things back and forth between the team and designers.
When I get stuck simplifying a concept, I just plug it into Chat GPT and ask it to simplify the text for me.
You know, doing the things I already do, but using new tools to make them incrementally better, easier, or more efficient.
Here's an example:
I have been unable to find a newsletter that I can read weekly that curates the weird blend of content that I get the most enjoyment and value out of reading or watching. After hanging out with Joe Stoltle in Arizona, and hearing about what he is building with Peter Diamandis it hit me:
Instead of trying to get AI to make things other people will like so that maybe I can money off them...
...why don't I just have AI make my life more enjoyable, more directly by having it create a newsletter that I want to read?
So I had a call with Joe, and we plugged in my favorite authors, pieces of content, and general concepts that are interesting to me. Now, I get a weekly newsletter tailored to me that will optimize itself based on the activity of each email. If you want to read something that doesn't come from me or if you're interested in the stuff that I am currently reading you can subscribe here:
Just enter your email, pick the topics within my topics that you think are most interesting, and engage with the letter to tell it how to optimize itself.
I told them I would try to get at least 100 people opted in so that they get the data to help with Futurescope. It's an interesting concept and might help a lot of people that don't like to write. I do like to write, so I am using it a little differently than it's designed to be used. Will report back as data comes in.
Banks, epicureans, stoics, and shiny objects.
Those were the primary topics of yesterday's (Un)Exploitable with Dan.
This one, in particular, resulted in a ton of people messaging us saying "thank you for doing this today" so it might be worth a watch. Plus, there is an invite at the end.
Will be back on a writing schedule after next week's events.
Nic
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