Welcome to Ponderer's 26th edition.

Before Halloween was over, our neighbor had his entire house decorated for Christmas! I mean, the place looks like Disneyland, so much that our twin boys wished they lived there. So, we took them to Disney for the first time…

And, before we officially turn our Christmas spirit on…

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

Let’s do it.

The Big Idea

“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did.’” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  

Thanks to AI, The Beatles were finally able to release “their last song,” Now and Then—fortifying their legacy while defying the test of time.

Is this the beginning of a new possibility where AI technology helps our ideas, creations, assets, and legacy continue living well beyond death?

Could this new possibility expand to other industries?

Can you imagine the potential at your fingertips?

Do not ponder all alone. Ponder with us, here.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

2 Resources

Skill up and expand your mind with our top picks of the week:

I. Free Course

[Join us] Open AI and DeepLearning have collaborated on a specialized course, Prompt Engineering for Devs, taught by Isa Fulford and Andrew Ng.

II. Video Tutorial

[Watch it] The entire step-by-step process of building an AI agent that lives inside your email inbox. We want one of those!

“Input, output. We leverage AI and AI leverages us.” —@rickyshq

3 Tools

Leverage our top picks of the week:

I. Tiny Albert

TinyAlbert is a Shopify marketing genius. He’ll help you manage your store’s marketing campaigns by writing copy, managing your inbox, and automating tasks. [Try it]

II. Write Panda

WritePanda is your content recycler. Ideal for video and podcast creators. Feed the panda video or audio, and it’ll spit out blog posts, short-form clips, threads, and whatever other pieces of AI-regurgitated content it can savor. [Try it]

III. Hoppy Copy

Hoppy Copy is here to save your email marketing campaigns. This little bunny will hop on your leads and generate converting copy for email campaigns, drip sequences, and newsletters. [Try it]

CREW PONDERINGS

🌶️ Spicy? xAI just released Grok with real-time knowledge of the world via the X platform. It will answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems, but how spicy, Elon? How spicy!? [Early access]

🤓 Got 3D? You better have 3D glasses because StabilityAI brings advanced multi-dimensional capabilities and image fine-tuning to stable diffusion. [Read it]

💍 AI Wife? The tool, Adelaide, is named after the wife of Forbes’ founder, B.C. Forbes—and will help readers engage more with Forbes’ stories. [Read it]

TWEET TO PONDER

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Until next Sunday, my pondering friend 🫡 

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