I'm the co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting and analytics). I write about SaaS marketing, bootstrapping startups, pursuing a good life, building calm companies, business ethics, and creating a better society.
We've lost the joy of discovering cool stuff on the internet
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So much of what made culture great between the '60s and '90s was that you had to work for it. There was friction. You'd go to a record store, or a book store, or a thrift store, and browse for hours, just hoping for one good find. Maybe we need more of that on the internet. Do we need to be constantly inundated with a firehose of content tuned to our lowest, base desires? These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume. We need more mess, more friction.Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
"RSS could be an antidote to the overwhelm that we experience elsewhere on the internet." – Mike Rugnetta, Never Post Algorithms are deciding what you’ll like before you’ve even had a chance to explore. For myself, I'm trying to keep following my curiosity, rather than being spoon-fed. A lot of the fun in discovering something cool is in the journey you took to get there. Cheers, PS: Have thoughts about this? Reply to this email. 👍 If you want to read this online or share this with others, here's the link:
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I'm the co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting and analytics). I write about SaaS marketing, bootstrapping startups, pursuing a good life, building calm companies, business ethics, and creating a better society.
Hope you're having a good Sunday! (And happy Thanksgiving Weekend if you're Canadian). Here are a few things on my mind... When customers lean in Another great article from Rob Snyder on what "customer demand" looks and feels like: "You'll hear concepts like 'pain points' and 'problems' that make sense and sound right... But, as you've likely experienced, you can have someone complain about their big problems and pain points, who agree that your product would solve these pain points and...
Hey friends, Sometimes AI gets me excited ("wow, look at what we can build now!") and sometimes it gets me scared ("are my kids going to be able to find a job?"). Brian Casel and Justin Jackson are going live at 12:15 pm Pacific today to chat about it: On today's topic list: Sora V2 app OpenAI eating more SaaS categories? Tony Dinh and TypingMind - super inspiring Agent OS 2.0 is out. What's next? Could we do Aaron's "no-devices vision quest?" How do you introduce tech (or entrepreneurship)...
Hope you're having a good Sunday! Here are a few things on my mind... Thoughts on vibe coding and V0.dev I've been experimenting a bunch with Vercel's https://v0.app/ this week. I used it to build a free tool for podcasters: https://art.transistor.fm/ What blows my mind is V0's interface: you prompt it with your vision for how you want something to work and look, and it provides a near-instant feedback loop, showing you what it might look like. I had to get a bunch of thoughts out, so I did a...