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I'm hiring a video editor to make short-form videos. Yep, that's the entire job. I want to hire somebody full-time because most short-form is so generic. Everything looks the same, and so many creators treat it like an afterthought. But what would it look like to produce… https://t.co/O0EdeuCLmm
How Tyler Cowen Uses AI
1) Grok: Quick and effective for fact-checking tweets.
2) o1 Pro: Best for queries. His primary daily tool.
3) Deep Research: Ideal for long-form (10-page) reports; extremely impressive but less practical for personal routine; occasionally useful for teaching; significant for replacing human labor.
4) Claude: Darn good w... See more
Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He's one of the best novelists alive today. This interview is a detailed look at his writing process, inspired by the class he used to teach at Stanford — and he's never done an interview quite like this.
Here are 17 lessons:
1. When you're sure what you're looking at, look harder.
2. There are... See more
Most people who attack or compete with you will be opportunists. So if the thing you're working on is your life's work, all you have to do is keep going, and eventually they'll drop away. Once several generations of them have dropped away you'll even stop caring about new ones.
If your technology is better but potential customers are too set in their ways to switch, use it yourself and compete with them.
The classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.
Man, doing office hours with startups gives you a completely different view of the world from reading the news. The news is all disaster and decline, but more startups are doing more cool new things than ever before. Which is reality? Both are; that's the weird thing.
The AI boom is not just probably bigger than the two previous ones I've seen (integrated circuits and the internet), but also seems to be spreading faster.