The other day, I went down to one of my favorite joints in town, the “Rest ‘N’ Vest Cafe”. They offer a unique system where you can pay for your order using equity in your startup, in line with a recent investing trend known as “microcapital” that the proprietor is a proponent of. You may end up giving away ten thousand coffees for free, he says, but it’s all worth it for the one that ends up bringing in a million bucks....
A lot of coworkers on Zoom have been asking me lately: “What’s that thing around your neck?” No, it’s actually NOT a fetish thing (sorry Mark and Esther - believe me I wouldn’t hesitate to join you guys if I was into that stuff!), it’s a new productivity hack I’ve been deploying lately with tremendous results. As you may be aware, I follow the productivity community quite closely and there’s certainly been a lot of incredible innovation within the space lately, a particular favorite being Simon Berens’ strategy of paying women off Craigslist to sit behind him to keep him accountable while he worked from home....
Now that AI text generation has gotten so good, a lot of new possibilities for automation have finally opened up wherever natural language responses are required. Tinder especially has been a thorn in my side for a long time because it’s such a time sink, coming up with clever responses all for a miniscule chance of actually ever meeting up in person. It’s all a numbers game after all, so wouldn’t it be great if there was some way to take out all that legwork?...