Issue #7 - GPT-3, Cult Brands, Designer Costco, Ugly Vegetables, Burna Boy, & Purple Disco Machine
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August 17, 2020
📰 News
🦾 GPT-3 will steal your job and your girl (or guy)
🙏 How to create a cult brand
🔍 How to find anything on the internet
📚 How to summarize & distill books
✉️ How to build your own newsletter empire
👵 Boomfluencers - Grandma lit fam
🎮 Pitchfork’s list of their favorite video game music soundtracks from the past 20 years
🗞️ Thoughts on the past, present, and future of newspaper advertising
⚰️ There’s a startup for that: Cremation, wills, funeral planning, tombstone design, and more
⛪ We call it JesaaS
👊 The ultimate community-created fighting game is upon us
👕 Yes, it’s possible to make a $1 million dollars selling thrifted goods Depop
🐺 Trends #0027: Million-dollar, one-person businesses by Dru Riley
🚴 How Uber turned JUMP into mounds of recyclable trash
🖼️ Researchers from MIT and Microsoft create a new algorithm to find hidden stylistic connections between paintings
🪑 Here’s a primer on contemporary decor for you West Elmers
🏎️ The future of racing lies in gamers
🧑🚀 Subculture of the Month: Randonauts
🏘️ Yeezy shelters dropping soon
🐦 Teen charged in hack while Twitter aims to go subscription-based
🌌 It takes 110 people to colonize Mars
🥑 God bless Zillenials, the true internet generation
📺 20 documentraies from The Guardian to explain 2020
🌀 Fast Company’s 2020 list of the most creative people in business
💡 Chindōgu: Building a useless invention empire
🧠 Powerpoint activism goes viral
🕹️ Products
Brek - Retro-tech streetwear
Plausible - Privacy-friendly analytics
Artifact - This American Life for everyone
Airr - Highlight your favorite podcasts
Contra - Future of freelance
Ditto - Update copy from one place
Misfits Market - Buy ugly produce
Italic - Costco for Alexander Wang
MakeSpace - Collaborative browser
Unclaimed Baggage - Buy unclaimed baggage
Their Tube - Recommended Youtube videos from different perspectives
Headlime - Copywrite like an expert
LALAL.AI - Extract vocals and instrumentals
WindowSnap - Look outside someone's window
Macro - Better Zoom meetings
🎧 Music
Burna Boy - Wonderful
Purple Disco Machine - Love For Days
IDK & A$AP Ferg - Mazel Tov
beabadoobee - If You Want To
Octavian & Skepta - Papi Chulo
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