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last call for GO EAST train writing fellowship 🚂 applications close tonight, sep 1 at midnight PT
if some part of you is yearning to cross the great american expanse by train, write alongside new friends, and spend a few days thinking seriously about technology and what progress should be in service of, apply
one thing we didn’t make clear enough originally: the trip is fully funded for people traveling from within the US
send this to the person you immediately thought of, or be that person yourself. the application takes ~5 minutes
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Smells like halal yield
Maybe the most unique swag for a Muslim startup ever?
We just had a stellar event @nurhousechicago and gave out Goldsand ʿitr.
Brought the ʿitr with me from Egypt, printed custom stickers, and my mom and I carefully stuck the labels on.
The kindergarten arts and crafts skills do come in handy.
If you're in Chicago and want swag, we have a few more ʿitr bottles handy.
Download Goldsand and drop a comment so I can get you one.
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🚨 applications for the writing retreat close at midnight!
There is lots of money to be made by building small companies really quickly and selling them to larger conglomerates/platforms. At the speed that the big dogs are scaling, you can now do this 2-3 times a year if you’re good.
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firms are going to get really big
coasean singularity bulls are building keiretsus or aggressively aggregating compute for private exercise
Tomorrow night I’m at @nurhousechicago speaking on building a startup while studying Islam, leaving Google & the US for Egypt, and what it takes to challenge interest-based finance
Come if you:
- are building and want the real story
- want halal savings options that pay
- want dinner with Chicago Muslim builders
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I think there’s an essay to be written here. Web design is important, but the content/copy/positioning of your website + the tools you make available to humans and agents alike can shape the trajectory of your business more than ever.
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The corollary here is that websites will be the most important marketing surface of the next decade (again), because they are the only digital marketing asset you have complete control over, and therefore there’ll be lots of interesting ways to interact with agents.
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i moved to New York to pursue my childhood dream:
I'm bringing on 1-2 new writers @ Ghost to help the most brilliant people in business produce excellent sentences that shake the internet. You are: based, American, adept at using AI AND your writerly craft to produce exceptional prose; great hang, very online. DM me.
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every reading room feels like a lil gift to myself on wednesdays
and now at the end of the RR season, we’re finally reading McLuhan.
oddly poetic bc I was introduced to him by way of @jaesmail
understanding “medium is the msg” was the first step for me in understanding what my guy does
at @nativestudio_ they help founders figure out what they believe, explain why their company matters, and produce the writing that moves the business forward.
if that sounds like you or someone you know, please reach out. dms are open
till then, see ya tmrw at 6:30 pm
video by the v talented @marvelgirl_eth
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Introducing Ordinary Business, a new video series hosted by @jacob__titus.
Our vision has always been to make every company narrative available to the right person. This is a new way to do it, on film.
Episode 01: Why are technology companies still paying for wall space?
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I’m starting a new show with @Quartr_App.
It’s called Ordinary Business, and somehow I’m the host. I met @haris_chc and @oliverhamrin here earlier this year through a shared interest in old annual reports, business history, and design. They were looking for someone to make a show. I was looking for my next project, and some new collaborators.
I didn’t know they’d be in Sweden.
Here’s the first episode.
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i've met some incredible new friends through @nativestudio_'s reading rooms SF
this week we'll be reading some of Marshall McLuhan's work cohosted by @bobawithbonnie
never been to a reading room before?
it's hella chill
1. we read a printed out essay/article for 20-30 mins
2. short presentation (10 mins) by our cohost of the eve
3. break out into discussion groups
4. ???
5. head to dinner together
if you're looking to make new friends over something intellectually stimulating, well, there could be worse ways to spend a Wednesday night lmao
below is a short lil preview of a previous reading room captured by the talented @marvelgirl_eth
link to join in replies
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There are great service businesses ready to be built by simply destroying people's perception of a "good offer." 99% of the world wants you to own outcomes on their behalf, and also has no clue just how much LLMs + agents are capable of. You can be cheaper, better, and faster.
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The corollary here is that websites will be the most important marketing surface of the next decade (again), because they are the only digital marketing asset you have complete control over, and therefore there’ll be lots of interesting ways to interact with agents.
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I have significantly more respect for SEO and search marketing (even AI-powered) than I do for short-form video automation. I’d rather you make it easy to find you when my search intent is high than to shove stuff down my throat unprompted.
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I have significantly more respect for SEO and search marketing (even AI-powered) than I do for short-form video automation. I’d rather you make it easy to find you when my search intent is high than to shove stuff down my throat unprompted.
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Strange disconnect: companies all want to write a manifesto & build a "movement" but insist on staying apolitical. Manifestos & movements are necessarily political. They align with or challenge core beliefs about what society should be, what we should do with our time.
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People better nail it with the annual reports next year.
