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Earlier this week, I read a blog post by Bethany Crystal about how ChatGPT saved her life. She had developed some symptoms she couldn’t place and had blood work done, and the results were available to her but her physician hadn’t looked int
Read the essay →I recently had a consulting call with a founder who asked me the question I’ve heard countless times before: “How can I write posts that go viral?” Many founders chase virality because they believe it will increase their number of customers
Read the essay →Justin Moore (@justinmooretfam) knows a thing or two about sponsors. He’s responsible for dozens of episodes of this very podcast to be sponsored! And what he taught me, he’ll teach you. I was VERY hesitant when I started looking at sponsor
Read the essay →As indie hackers, we often start our journey with simple dreams and manageable datasets. But what happens when success hits and your modest database transforms into a data behemoth? Let me share my experience scaling Podscan from a simple p
Read the essay →A few weeks ago, I came across an intriguing tweet by Jack Ellis about deleting your backlog. He shared how getting rid of this “mental technical debt” — not even real technical debt, but the illusionary kind — had been one of the most usef
Read the essay →A few days ago, over dinner, I found myself deep in conversation about the technological singularity. While that “happy moment” of humanity becoming a machine-augmented brain collective (think Star Trek’s Borg) might still be years or decad
Read the essay →Brian Sierakowski (@bsierakowski) has been busy over the last year: he started working on ChangeBot and TRMNL, and both projects are taking off. If you ever wondered what a good changelog looks like or why you might need one, this episode i
Read the essay →This week taught me an unexpected lesson about entrepreneurship. After the Christmas and New Years festivities — that annual tradition of sharing joy, memories, and apparently germs — I found myself running a fever of nearly 40°C (104°F). F
Read the essay →When Peter Jackson was brainstorming the Lord of the Rings movie universe, two amazing Tolkien-savvy illustrators sat in on the meetings: John Howe and Alan Lee. Jackson would explain a scene, what was where, and they would sketch as he tal
Read the essay →Johannes Jäschke is a pioneer in the intersection of technology and mental health. From a college seminar to the forefront of digital well-being, Johannes developed Hypnu, a hypnosis app that gained significant traction during the pandemic.
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