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1-2-3: A Beginning and an End

1 idea, 2 resources, and 3 tools for this week.

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Ponderer
February 23, 2023

Happy Thursday!

We finally did it.

Welcome to Ponderer's first edition.

Here are 1 idea to ponder, 2 resources to skill up, and 3 tools to try out.

Let’s do it.

PONDER THIS

The AI Adoption Curve Story by Ricky Figueroa

. The Big Idea .

Setting the stage with the AI adoption curve is only appropriate for this first edition.

The wise, the fools, and everyone else.

Warren Buffet stated:

"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end."

The fools don't listen to the wise, and we can't blame them.

The wise are the crazy ones.

Crazy enough to jump into alligator-infested waters and come out with a restaurant business serving alligator meat.

Everyone else mocks the wise but also the fools.

Ultimately, everyone else has no choice but to jump in.

By then, it is too late. 🐊 

LEARN

Learn Section: Skill up through Experience

We learn via iteration and putting our skin in the game.

. 2 Resources .

Skill up with our top picks of the week:

I. Prompt Engineering:

  • How to talk to AI to get it to do what you want. A free, open-source course on communicating with artificial intelligence. [Skill up]

II. Video Tutorial:

  • Creating a GPT3-powered content library with no code. [Skill up]

TRY IT

Infinite Leverage - Human input, AI output until AI provides input + output.

Human input, AI output. We leverage AI, and AI leverages us.

. 3 Tools .

Leverage our top picks of the week:

I. Bearly AI

Bearly makes us significantly faster by adding state-of-the-art AI to our workflow. Reading, writing, and content creation are all one shortcut away. It is one of our favorite AI tools, and we use it daily. [Try it]

II. Browse AI

Browse AI is a web automation service [aka spy i-robot] that makes extracting and monitoring data from any website easy—no coding required. With just two minutes of setup, you can have a robot up and running, and they even offer prebuilt robots for popular use cases. [Try it]

III. Jasper

Jasper is a generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10x faster wherever you work online. [Try it]

. AROUND THE POND .

🚨 Alert: Hide yo' wives and yo' data. 12 Fake ChatGPT apps that steal your information—Delete them ASAP.

🗞️ New: Notion just got smarter. Introducing Notion AI—it is pretty darn helpful. You can unlock its power for $2 more than the Twitter checkmark. $8 + $2 = $10. We know math.

🧠 Dreamy: Can AI read and visualize our thoughts? You bet your pants it can—according to an experiment conducted by four scientists from Kyoto University. Our bet: Businesses will want to get their hands on mind-reading tech. Who wouldn't?

🎵 Turn it up: Spotify announces their new personalized AI called "DJ," which picks songs for people based on taste and listening history. Wet willy: Not only in your ears but also in your pockets.

🛫 Air Force: An AI agent flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hours. Pondering: Can we finally fulfill our childhood dream without attending pilot school? It is hard for us peasants without a 20/20 vision. 👀 

. PIC OF THE WEEK .

Our founder, Ricky, used to be a cute baby. Keyword phrase: used to.

Chief Ponderer aka Boss Baby: Where it all started. Yes, that’s me.

. TOGETHER > SOLO .

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