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Chao Lam's avatar

Quite a diverse set of books as befits a world traveler like you! Have you reverted back from Zaffre?

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Leo Ariel's avatar

You know how in tech startup land there’s this concept of a landing page? Where previously you would’ve had to invest in a Webflow or hire a guy from Indonesia to do it? And now you can use AI tools etc.. to do it? Well there are now AI tools to make a “landing page” for media publications. Simply take a few topics, find the relevant tweets, choose those with high engagement, and ask a language model to convert it to an article in a NYTimes format or equivalent. Using this method you can generate 4 articles in 4 minutes. I suppose it’s a new way to bootstrap an idea…

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Chao Lam's avatar

haha, is that what you did?! Brilliant

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Leo Ariel's avatar

🤣

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Chao Lam's avatar

I'm thinking of applying similar techniques in the domain of Apple news - any pointers will be helpful!

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Leo Ariel's avatar

Here’s the tweet I referenced: https://x.com/powdaze/status/1601348697370947584

Then I’m sure there are Apple community groups on X or using Advanced Search.

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Chao Lam's avatar

I tried this manually in the style of Michael Lewis, Steven Levy and Ashlee Vance: https://www.nextsmallthings.com/p/the-keynote-is-the-product

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Love the selection - been meaning to read many of them. Like Network State and LKY's book!

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