tuttyboy

Don’t trust clickbait authors, especially authors that use book titles like Ego is the Enemy.

Red flags: you only have 40 people and consider some c-level; most of your spend is on marketing content that is fleeting (no lasting value); with as many people in marketing as product, it seems like you want it to work more than it actually works.

Say goodbye to everyone not in product and focus on “marketing content” that shows how to effectively use the product. Maybe keep one marketer to do this.

Lawsuits like this just make sense. You can't train a model that makes you money with content you don't own without paying the content owner. What am I missing?

You could do this, or you could use the distractions as a practice for ignoring the distractions. This is quite a powerful practice for improving your ability to focus on what matters, in and outside the web.

As someone who recently discovered the wonder of birds, I love the example they offer for a website built with notion: https://www.birdingnyc.com/.

But the URLs are brutal when you navigate to an individual page, like the song sparrow page: https://www.birdingnyc.com/My-spotted-birds-1c7d9d506ecf4802...

The URLs are even messier than those on Medium. Yikes! Of course, this doesn't matter for a hacky cool personal site like the example.

What's the recent drama?

That’s cool. I can see them expanding to become the Intercom for Developers.

This is exactly what I was looking for!

They feature an "Ask AI" widget in the bottom-right of their own docs site (https://docs.kapa.ai/) and some of their customers are doing the same: https://www.prisma.io/docs | https://docs.mapbox.com/ | https://circleci.com/docs/ | https://fusionauth.io/docs/

I love how this response starts practical and then directs the heart of the matter. I think my approach falls somewhere in-between.

When reading a paper book, I use underlining for individual sentences I want to remember and an extended bracket for a paragraph I want to remember.

Next to the underlined or bracketed text, I'll add a checkmark, star, heart, or exclamation point.

The checkmark means it's worth remembering. The star means it's really worth remembering. The heart means it's something I already know and love to see again. The exclamation point means it's funny or surprising, though I don't necessarily need to remember it.

When I finish the book, I review all the text that's been marked. This helps me remember what's meaningful to me.

"'The honeymoon phase of generative AI is over,' the company said in its 2024 Generative AI Global Benchmark Study."

The company here is Lucidworks who performed the study, and probably has some ulterior motive. Usually studies like this are marketing collateral, not legitimate studies.

I think generative AI is just getting started. I'm not a fan of it, but that doesn't mean I'm in denial like Lucidworks seems to be. Yes, it's just getting started.

I love how SETI got free marketing through the movie Contact (1997). They even have a promo video with Morgan Freeman on their homepage! If I was a scientist, I'd be all over this.

2014 was a fun year. I got my first job at a CDN startup and was introduced to the world of cloud-native computing. It was cool to see Kubernetes grow as I grew as a tech marketer.

Guess it’s time for me to transition from content marketer to devrel. Damn, I’ve been putting off learning how to code for 10 years.

Nope. People will scroll right past it to the content links.

I find it strange that LLMs can be trained on any information available on the internet without crediting it. When Google steals your information, at least they add a link to your website (e.g. featured snippet).

There are so many LLMs that they’re starting to feel cheap.

The Hubspot CRM is reliable and free: https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm

"You can use HubSpot’s free CRM tools at no cost. With up to 1,000,000 contacts and no limits on customer data, HubSpot’s free CRM functionality is 100% free, with no expiration date. More advanced CRM features are available in premium editions of Sales Hub."

How is this better than ChatGPT?

I have a difficult time relaxing on flights, so it's hard for me to sleep. However, I just flew around the world and had a few flights that were over 8 hours. Watching movies and writing relaxes me, so I combined the two activities.

I watched some of my favorite movies and would pause the movie after a good scene and reflect on it. It was a fun journal activity. When I returned home, I published some of the journal entires as blog posts.

Nice tut. Glad you found Zenstack instead of taking the cumbersome API route.

You’re a strong writer. However, I’m glad that AI has removed the need to hire writers who are not so good. Editing their uninspired work and paying them upwards a dollar a word is upsetting.

So, thank you AI for not needing to hire them anymore. For example, if I need ghostwriting, I’ll interview the person, plug the transcript into ChatGPT, do some editing, and provide the person with a draft an hour later. I did this recently and the person was impressed with how good the draft was.

I think this is an example of AI weeding out people who are not inspired by their work. Find what inspires you and something you can love and the rest will take care of itself. AI can ghostwrite and take on “content writing” well but can’t write a post like you wrote here. Nor would you or anyone want it to.

Having a technical editor is key (like companies in this article), and not editing too much. I’m non-technical and have edited drafts of engineering blog posts too much and lost favor with engineers who contribute.

Once I restored that favor, I would have lost it again if I told contributors, hey, we’re going to share your draft with a bunch of your mates (like companies in this article). That’s groupthink and it brings any blogging momentum to a standstill.

https://www.plushcap.com/ brings in blog posts from tech startups, most of which offer dev platforms. Created by Twolio devrel who led the community writing program Twilio voices.

Thanks, Matt. The first tutorial for a platform probably takes between 10-20 hours. For more tutorials about using the same platform, probably 10+ hours to build a simple sample app and walk others through the build. For this reason, I thought about giving writers more for the first tutorial.

Anyways, I started with $500 as a payout and was unable to attract the attention of developers/writers who I liked. I had to hire overseas. Which is fine but the quality just is not what I'm looking for. For example, for the latest tutorial I sent to a customer, I spent 5 hours editing it.

Moving forwarding, I'll increase the payout to $1,000 per tutorial. I'll check out your website and reach out if and when it makes sense, especially if the tutorial requires some JS ;)

David Hawkins discovered that you can determine truth from falsehood with muscle testing (kinesiology). There are a few caveats, however. The biggest one is that you can't be attached to the determination. Here's the book he wrote on it: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Falsehood-How-Tell-Difference/d...

I'm sure the impressive retention rate has more to do than being remote. The intention of what remote means (enjoy your work) is what matters.

"Only 8 people (out of 112) have ever left the company voluntarily, resulting in a 98.5% voluntary retention rate over 10 years (our total retention rate is 97%)."

Also, I think it's a mistake to compare a startup like this with Amazon and Google. They are much larger companies. The purity of any "enjoy your work" concept becomes harder to maintain as a company grows. There are too many people joining with too many different motivations, and the power of money and fame can cloud the minds of once integrous founders.

"Our remote-first peers boast similar stats: Buffer has a retention rate of 94% and an average tenure of 2.4 years, GitLab’s retention is 85%, BuySellAds is 90%, and Zapier’s is 94%. Meanwhile companies like Google and Amazon struggle to keep employees for barely a year."

It sends you to Ahrefs (an external site) after you click on a keyword generated by your tool. It would be cool to bake additional keyword recommendations from Ahrefs into your app to improve UX. Of course, this would be expensive. To access their API you need to pay at least $15k per year. That said, nice little MVP for a free keyword tool.

How do you plan to productize it (if at all)?

Maybe this is a republish from the mid-2000s? Probably not :/

I love Envato Tuts! I had no idea Shutterstock was a public company until now. Congratulations, Envato team.

As someone who previously did van life (don't recommend for longer than a few months), and someone who just returned from solo traveling in SE Asia (I'm kind of a big deal as you can see), this app intrigued me. But I lost interest when coming across a blog post on their website called: Why Solo Travelers Should Consider Group Tours. I tried this in SE Asia and it sucked. If you're a solo traveler, you probably prize flexibility. The group tour method robs you of that. Anyways, happy... fairytrailing. I prefer good ol' dating apps if I'm not meeting people organically.