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The Monday Media Diet with Tom Junod

“I told him to get as many copies as he can of Joe Brainard’s “I Remember.” It’s a slim book that consists of nothing but sentences that begin with the words “I remember.” They seem offhand and incredibly random: “I remember Dole pineapple rings on a bed of lettuce with cottage cheese on top and sometimes a cherry on top of that.” But they add up with incredible accumulative power..."

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Startup FLORA Raises $6.5 Million To Build The AI Canvas For Creatives

“Current AI tools are built by non-creatives, for other non-creatives to feel creative."

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Snowflake's CEO on AI: 'Constraints Make You Think Harder'

“My hot take is that constraints make you think harder, constraints make you work harder at producing great outcomes, and that innovation with constraints is the ultimate art.”

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Year of the Horse

I want to feel what it feels like to make that song go. I think that's taught me to recognize when a song of my own feels right. The same excitement I feel about someone else's song, the desire to be moved, is intact when I'm trying to write my own.

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Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint

One phenomenon we've seen when teams are building things really quickly with AI is that the more AI-generated or assisted they are, the more generic they tend to turn out. Which makes sense if you think about how LLMs were developed, they're all basically pre-trained on the same data. And so in this excitement, in this rush to say, "Wow, look at how fast we can build it." You actually end up with something that is less differentiated.