Podcasts, business ideas, SEO and a little AGI. Let’s go through it!

Topics for this week:

• divs division

• Hackathon Podcast

• GPT is Getting Smarter

• How to Explode Your Business Overnight

• The Podfather

divs Divisions

divs.design is still alive and well, but working with a client made me realize I was on the right path a while ago.

I already had the idea of divs.digital as a content based division instead of a design focused branch of divs, and this client helped me figure out what that actually meant in the real world.

My current client didn’t want to pay the full design prices but they also weren’t interested in monthly designs. They were looking for a new, practical website and affordable monthly or yearly maintenance, not an expensive design service.

Rather than try to fit them into the existing design model, or add a low-tier maintenance package, I decided to make divs.digital handle that type of service instead: affordable websites and maintenance, with more focus on SEO.

This also helped a ton with another problem.

I was really struggling to force divs.design to use an SEO term “web design packages”. The term “web design packages” seems to be related to affordable websites for small business, which is the opposite goal for divs.design: high ticket service for businesses and clients.

Splitting the websites offers two benefits:

• the design site can focus on design, and get traffic from referrals and social media instead of SEO

• the digital site can focus on SEO traffic and building faster, simpler, and cheaper sites with affordable maintenance packages.

It makes sense in my head anyway. I’m sure I’ll let you know how it’s going in the future but let me know if you have any better ideas!

Hackathons and Side Projects

The Dev Sync podcast is back on track with a new upload last week and another recorded for next week.

It was just Will and I this week but we pretty thoroughly covered our hackathon experience, the benefits of hacking things together, some of the Nocode tools we’ve used or would consider for quick development and the idea of turning a hackathon result into a side project.

This is Episode 5 in the series with episode 6 in editing! Getting past episode 3 is a huge milestone, but the real goal is 21 💪 Here’s a pretty cool breakdown of the those podcast numbers too.

If you have the time, check out our hackathon discussion and let us know what you think!

GPT is Getting Smarter

It’s always wild to hear quotes like “GPT 4 is the dumbest model any if you will have to use again” from Sam Altman, but I’m sure it’s true. With time, it will only get better.

The easy physical comparison is the first computers took up entire warehouses only to be able to do simple calculations. You most likely have multiple computers within your reach right now that are 100s and 1000s of times more powerful and can fit in your pocket.

It’s always hard to imagine the other side of progress, but AI will be no different. Sam and OpenAI are working with models way more advanced than what’s publicly available and in a few years those will pale in comparison to future models or whatever form they take.

Too fascinating to grasp, I should probably be working in AI research like Sam recommends in this video. You can hear the full conversation with Sam talking to Harvard students about the possibilities of AI here:

How to Explode Your Business Overnight

On to the real business. Alex Hormozi dropped this one last week and it made me question everything, yet again. He details the strategy of How to 10x Your Business Overnight with Influencers and like everything he explains, he makes it sound easy.

To keep it super simple, if you play your cards right and impress somebody with a large following and offer to do a bunch of upfront work, by partnering with them, you can actually shortcut to bigger numbers for your (and their) business overnight.

This influencer strategy is one of the few legitimate strategies that could lead to a literal “overnight” success for you, without the years of work that’s typically required for “overnight success” because you’re capitalizing on someone else’s years of work building an audience, while they capitalize on your years of whatever valuable skill you offer that doesn’t have an audience.

In the ideal scenario, you both end up making more money. The rare win-win.

It’s a great concept and it’s something I will certainly be keeping in mind for the future. You can get the full details here:

The Podfather

Two significant points with this podcast:

• Chris Williamson and his team may be the first to record podcasts in a fully digital studio with changing backgrounds

• Tim Ferriss is a “podfather”, pioneering podcasting for more than 10 years, having had guests like Hugh Jackman, Jamie Foxx and LeBron James

Chris Williamson has also risen to the top of the podcast game, producing 3 episodes a week for over 3 years, which is breakneck pace considering each episode has a different guest and recently has been in different locations.

Tim is highly accomplished in his own right, as an investor, multiple New York Times best selling books in addition to more than 1 billion podcast downloads, so most of his conversations are worth listening to.

It’s a long episode at 3 hours, but it’s great to witness two masters of their craft in front of an evolving backdrop.

They both are big fans of optimization, even trying to optimize for not optimizing, which is entertaining in it’s own right, but also just full of good advice and interesting perspectives on success and life in general.

Worth actually watching the full video below:

And that’s it for this week! divs are expanding, multiple podcasts, growing your business audience overnight, and the ever-present future of AI.

Those are the links that stuck with me throughout the week and a glimpse into what I personally worked on.

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