More AI, more problems
I'm overwhelmed by the amount of information on AI but not so much by the quality.
Short topic this week. I have been using a lot of AI tools in the last two years now, on a daily basis.
While, on the one hand, AI has enabled me to do more and better things, this is beginning to be problematic. The cost of starting new things has been lowered to zero. There are literally zero barriers of entry in most things I want to do: write, draw, design, code or even sing and write music.
This means, the cost of going from 0 to 1 is reaching zero in many sectors. This enables creative profiles like me to start too many things because of the negligible start-up costs. Our renaissance brains are exploding with the prospect of being able to create all kinds of art. However, most projects are left abandoned, and a lot of tasks are left incomplete or unpolished.
I am overwhelmed by the amount of new AI tools I have to try (42 at the moment) and the articles and ideas I want to work on (hundreds).
I am feeling AI-burnt-out.
Back to shorter posts
I want to keep the Friday newsletter shorter to focus more on the resources list.
Longer posts and braindumps will be published as blog articles, like the following ones:
- Thank you, Startup Grind
- Immediacy is the enemy of quality
- Small guide to start investing
- How I distribute my time to run two companies
Recommendations
- Talk to your Apple Notes. This can be a game changer. If it doesn't work the way I want, I will build my own.
- Lindy AI - put processes on Autopilot.
- Haven't tried MyMind yet, but looks promising. Any feedback here?
- Most AI website- or app-generators like Unicorn Platform or Vercel's V0 aren't great for building anything, but they're powerful to create non-working designs for client demos or mocks.
- My favourite new use cases for ChatGPT:
- Turn this long rambling (voice note or text) into a clearly formatted message to post to Slack for my team-mates.
- Tell me why my half-baked ideas I braindump here are bad with reasoned arguments.
- Take this grocery list and create a weekly plan for breakfast, lunch and dinner for three people (2 adults, one 7yo) to eat healthy and have a maximum cooking time per dish of 20 minutes.
Podcasts & talks
This week, I've really enjoyed these episodes:
- Open source and power, with Matt Mullenweg - Old episode where DHH from Basecamp discusses big topics with Matt from Wordpress. Very relevant lately.
- Novedades de Tesla, el Podcast de itnig - Pleasantly surprised how they discussed Tesla's recent happenings, not blindly buying everything Musk releases. Itnig continues to be a reference as a podcast and I love their integrity.
- Meet the 14yo who's launched two businesses, My First Million - Very humbling episode about this teenager creating businesses but also a reminder that entrepreneurship is a rich kids' game, for the most part.
- Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson. Loving the vision of Rails 8. I'm buying the #NoPaaS and #NoBuild movements.
- Keep your goals to yourself, by Derek Sivers.
Reads
- More Wordpress drama.
- Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- Letters from BBC Television Licensing - 🤯
- How to get your first 1,000 email subscribers.
Investments
Two of the decks I sent last week to SeedRocket have been selected for investment committee, so let me know if you want me to send yours.
I have received a very interesting proposal out of my thesis: ice baths stores. I can't disclose much, so let me know if you want to know more.
I've also been approached again by the Sounds Market guys. I've been following them closely and they're doing a great job. They could be a good business angel investment, but it's not for VCs.
Asks
- A very good friend of mine has been laid off from his company. He's a service manager (in corporate), but he could be your VP Technology or CTO. Hard-worker, dedicated and very fun to work with. If MarsBased were a different company, I'd hire him with my eyes closed. Let me know if you want to meet him.
- We're hiring Ruby on Rails developers at MarsBased (one or two!) and a marketing profile (jr or sr - I'm open to either).
My projects
- In case you missed it, we recorded our 150th episode with Foc a Terra (video & streaming included). In Catalan.
- I spoke with two very good friends about housekeeping in your companies for the MarsBased podcast. How to keep shit tidy without affecting your team. In Spanish.
Other
Javi Lopez continues to amuse us with his AI-distorted holidays videos.
I have this album on heavy rotation:
Thanks for reading! see you next week!