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Aug 31 Weeek in podcasts From "The Founders" on Claude Hopkins - he tours Schlitz's brewery to help them figure out how to advertise to get from 5th to near 1st most sold beer app.tldl.pro/episodes/430... "The maker is too close to his product. He sees in his methods only the ordinary." ....

"He does not realize that the world at large might marvel at those methods and that facts which seem commonplace to him might give him vast distinction. Tell the pains that you take to excel. [...] Serve better than others, offer more help than others, and you are pretty sure to win."

Techbrew Ride Home on "Hugging Face rogue-AI postmortems" with an extra take from @emollick.bsky.social "agents should seek human help for approval, expertise, variance, and interest, warning against automating the wrong half of the job". - app.tldl.pro/episodes/50-...

Another one from Techbrew Ride Home on OpenAIs ad business - "$1 billion in terms of an annualized revenue run rate ... [for] its ad business, which is roughly **200 days old**" app.tldl.pro/episodes/50-...