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When consumers don’t know the true value of the products they’re looking for, they rely on corporate iconography to guide them. But when they can figure out the absolute value of a product on their own, they ignore advertisements and brands.
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers
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A succinct elevator pitch for your newsletter is much more marketable than being a whole person who communicates their ideas via blog. That said, some people, including me, market their blog as a publication dealing in existentialism and philosophy and the chronicles of life in the world today, which leaves room for your perspective to change as... See more
Cydney Hayes • The elite capture of Substack
Ollama
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App to run a variety of AI models
A great article on why SEO matters less than we think it does in some circumstances and why focusing on writing a well-informed and well-written article about an interesting topic is better than an “optimised” article written for the search engine’s sake
It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
How do you stop treating your time off as an investment in your future?
« You won’t lose your job to AI, you’ll lose your job to someone using AI. »
This is another recurring idea in the public discourse. I don’t like it. I think it instills fear by stressing the idea of scarcity (jobs will be lost) and asking people to compete for the now scarce resource (learn AI or suffer).
I prefer a more benevolent stance, even
... See moreI’ve always hated that stock phrase as well. This is a brilliant reframe
Could be useful for better estimating project duration and fees in the future