Every week I’ll dive into a curated list of links from the latest tech to just interesting reads, as well as updates on my latest entrepreneurial endeavors. Thanks for joining on this journey!

Topics for this week:

• Usage Blindness

• Entrepreneur Advice

• Potential New Tool from Google Soon

• Content Strategy

• ChatGPT is Still Powerful

Usage Blindness

I have a 14 year old reddit account, and what’s crazier is that I know I surfed reddit for years before I finally decided to make an account (and never post). I can remember when digg.com and reddit were in fierce competition to be “the front page of the internet”. Here’s an article detailing the history if you’re interested: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/reddit-digg/. But in those 14 plus years, my mind had adapted to the idea that reddit it is just that, for reading. (I reddit, get it?). Other people would post and I would read.

It wasn’t until a few days ago that I was watching a YouTube video that it hit me hard: I should be posting on reddit. I’m still in the process of optimizing posting on all of these social media platforms, because this list continues to grow, but this one I was shocked I hadn’t even considered. I browse reddit multiple times a week, but the thought of posting hadn’t even crossed my mind. It’s amazing how I was completely blind to how I was using something regularly, and one simple tweak could make it an even more valuable tool.

Entrepreneur Advice

A lighter one, but valuable advice from Mark Cuban. Answering questions in the this video, he said most business fail for 4 reasons:

• Sales

• Preparation

• Effort

• Brains

Straight forward, and mostly obvious, but still impactful to see listed out at a high level. The last bullet he emphasized specifically with brains is to be curious. Running a business requires constant learning.

He doubles down on curiosity later in the video while answering the question “What are the three daily habits or practices that have significantly contributed to your success.” He broke it down into 4 bullets again:

• Read

• Curious

• Agile

• Always Be Selling

There will always be constant changes and an entrepreneur needs to stay on top of those changes. Curiosity will only help keep up with constant changes to be able to learn, adapt and be agile if needed.

I’m beginning to pick up on the trend of reading as a common piece of advice for success, so you’re directly contributing to your own success by reading this!

Potential New Tool from Google Soon

Supposedly earlier this month, there was a leak of Googles new suite called Stubbs, which will be similar to projects I’ve mentioned before like ChatDev and AutoGen.

What really surprised me was, in the article referenced in the video, there was a working link for Google’s Makersuite, which I had no idea was a thing. I’ll have to dive into that as well at some point, it looks like an even easier way to get AI based apps up and running, at least for prototypes anyway.

Content Strategy

I referenced my growing list of social media platforms to manage earlier, and I’m hoping to tackle it in a way that is doubly efficient. I’ve also mentioned that I’ll be copying the Alex Hormozi, Gary Vee approaches but with a more automated twist. One of the main tools behind that will most likely be Make.com.

Make is very similar to Zapier, which I’ve talked about in the past as well, and my own implementation may be a combination of the two platforms depending on how things go. But I’m hoping between the two, I can connect most of the daily content processes and social media platforms to produce a nice pipeline that repurposes content quickly and efficiently, saving me some time.

And once the process is narrowed down for me, I’ll be able to document it with some videos and offer to implement it for others! Quite a bit of work to go on that but that’s the path that I keep returning to that Makes the most sense right now. Stay tuned! 🤖

ChatGPT is Still Powerful

I was helping with some marketing verbiage earlier this week, and I turned to ChatGPT to produce most of it. You can always just prompt ChatGPT with a direct command such as “act as a marketer and help me sell this thing, it has these traits” and it will generate a great result. The real power move though, is a bit of a mind-bender but you can use the AI on itself for better results.

I told ChatGPT that I needed help selling and I gave it some details about the product and instructed it to act as an expert marketer, but then I asked it to ask me questions to better provide an answer. And sure enough, it asked me 11 new question to help it gather more information for a stronger answer. It really is mind-blowing to see it spit out 11 questions faster than I can read, then combine all the elements of the answers into a super solid sales pitch.

I highly recommend getting used to using any kind of AI to help with whatever you might need. ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard are all great places to start.

Additionally, if you would be interested in software engineering or career coaching, let me know @jaypetersdotdev or email [email protected]!

And that’s it for this week! Newsletter 5! Those are the links that stuck with me throughout the week and a glimpse in what I personally worked on.

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