This is the very first time I've ever built anything with code behind the scenes. Jon got inspired by one of the ideas: create a really cool invitation our customers would want to give to someone else. Your name, the name of the person you're inviting, download it, send it. He showed me his design. My creative juices went a little crazy. I asked Joel, "Can you build something like this?" He said, "Yeah, I think it'll take a couple of hours." But he's so busy working on other stuff, so I thought, maybe I could do it myself. So I did, with Codex. I wanted it to feel retro, very '90s, and on theme with Social Media Marketing World. Then I pulled it up for Jon and Jessica and asked for their first reaction. → Pick an avatar, or drag in your own photo → Type a name and it drops right into the invitation → Zoom in and position the picture → A really long name like Michael just shrinks to fit → Hit download and the image is done Jon: "Even cooler than I originally envisioned." Jessica: "Will you be my Player 2?" While I'm trying to get 3,000 people to my conference, this is the first thing I've built myself instead of waiting on someone else. What would you build? Start your comment with "I'd..." 👇 Press Start: The Road to 3,000. #SocialMediaExaminer# #SMMW27# #RoadTo3000# #AIinMarketing# #VibeCoding#

Black Shadows Tattoos concocted this crazy cool Edgar Allan Poe for Tiffany and we’re nuts about it! Carlos has some availability here in LA this week so hit him up now at bstusa666@gmail.com!

I just unboxed my silver iPhone 18 Pro and in the background is the Tesla Cybercab. And the difference between these two companies is too big now to ignore… Apple just put on this huge, glamorous live event with beautiful lights, stages, cameras, and world-class production & acting. All that energy around a phone that, from the outside, mostly looks new bc of new colors. And don’t get me wrong… This phone is beautiful, I still think it’s the best phone in the world. But then I look at the Cybercab sitting on my wallpaper. It has no steering wheel, no pedals, driving real people around cities. It’s a brand new vehicle designed so one day humans won’t need to drive at all. Something that will fundamentally change how millions of people and things move from point A to B. And it made me think… This is what happens when a founder is gone. A company can keep making great products. It can keep making and milking $ billions from one product iteration to the next. It can keep hiring super incredible people. It can become more polished, more efficient, more professional than ever. But that founder-level obsession with changing the world slowly gets replaced by protecting what already works. That’s why I honestly miss Steve Jobs... Apple events used to feel unpredictable. You waited for that “one more thing” bc there was this feeling that Jobs might walk onto that stage and show you something you’ve never seen and hadn’t even realized you wanted yet. He truly made the company feel like it was unveiling the future, something unbelievable… Apple still knows how to put on one heck of a show… but I feel the show has become bigger and the leaps in technology/products have become smaller. And that’s what makes me think about Tesla. Tesla is still founder-led. Elon and the team are still willing to build things that sound completely insane before they become real. Cars that drive themselves. Robotaxis with no steering wheel or pedals. Humanoid robots. Factories designed around entirely new ways of building vehicles. Huge risk. Huge ambition. Huge chance of failure. Believe it or not, that founder mentality and leadership really matter. Bc founders are often willing to risk the comfortable business they already have to build the thing that could completely replace it. I really hope Tesla never loses that spark… bc one day I know Elon won’t be there. And when that day comes, I hope Tesla stays a company obsessed with building brand new crazy cool risky things that make us super excited about the future and doesn’t become a company that simply protects what it already built.

Opus 5.5 is crazy good at motion design it cooked up this lil reel for with basically zero direction prompt was something like "make a cool instagram ad for liinks"

it was so cool being the #1# trader in 24 hours on fomo manifesting that again soon such a surreal feeling, a very hard thing to do really shows you how much talent there is, inspiring really and crazy thing now is top 10 is around $1m lol, it might be the golden bull

Ok this is crazy! The US government just banned foreign made humanoid robots!! This means we can’t have all those cool Chinese robots. Soon they will be able to cook, clean and do housework If the ban holds up, and China ships mass market household maid bots, people will start moving out of this country 😳