The Daily Loop #29

Twenty-ninth edition of The Daily Loop. 3 long-form reads, 3 short-term tweets, 1 quote and some daily advice! Have a read.

The Daily Loop newsletter focuses on information that can be consumed in 2 minutes every day by linking to posts across the internet, formatted in a way that is easy for anyone to navigate. In a 3-3-1-1 design.

The goal is for as many people to read this daily and inspire them to think differently about certain things. It will primarily be around topics and industries I am interested in such as: startups, ai, success, innovation, change, crypto, nfts, etc.

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3 long-form reads

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The Wolf of Franchises 🍟 @franchisewolf

A typical Planet Fitness has 7,500 members, of which only ~10% show up on a given day. In fact, the large majority of their 17,000,000 members worldwide rarely go to the gym. The genius behind the Planet Fitness franchise model:

Can be in the same industry but target different audiences. Planet Fitness is a public company worth more than $7BN!

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Lior⚡ @AlphaSignalAI

I just came across the most realistic text-to-audio model I've ever seen. You can even clone your voice. The audiobook industry is about to change forever. Demo: beta.elevenlabs.io from @elevenlabsio

You can test this out right now. Free. You don’t even need to sign up.

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Brian Bourque @bbourque

It should be illegal to launch a startup without memorizing these 21 principles from Y-Combinator's Startup Playbook:

My favourite 3 principles from this thread: Grow the right way, don’t make excuses and hire slowly.

3 short-form tweets

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noisé @proetrie

at some point there will be a tiktok-like app with 100% ai generated content, generating in real-time to maximize engagement. phase one of social media was optimizing the pipes, phase two is optimizing what goes in the pipes. your mind will be none the wiser. https://t.co/RXd88EKv99

Putting this here as I believe this will also be a thing in the future. People won’t care if it’s AI, that is just something they complain about now. Just feed dopamine and they won’t know any better.

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Paul Graham @paulg

@Suhail For users the distinction might not matter much, but it should for investors.

You have probably noticed the trend of AI startups just calling to GPT-3 API. Good to understand that you need a compelling reason for why someone should invest in such a product.

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Frank III @frankdegods

enjoy the history of apple in one animation. gm.

Cool video!

1 good quote

"The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time."

– Bob Klein, chief engineer of the F-14 program

1 piece of advice from me

Loopify 🧙‍♂️ @Loopifyyy

Never invest more than you are afraid to lose.

So obvious, yet so many people dismiss it until it’s too late.

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