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A couple things on my mind... claude again, girls rites of passage, and vidangel
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Hey folks! Happy Friday! We made it. A couple things on my mind... 1. Claude (Again): I said it last week and I'll say it again - if you aren't using Claude and its agentic workflows, you need to start. This week alone I: wrote a 60-page highly technical newsletter drip, made design tweaks on a website that just felt "off," and re-wrote a 7-part lead magnet sourced from Zoom calls, changing the writer and tone 3x for options. The sheer volume of work I can get through in a day right now is insane. If you haven't switched out of ChatGPT, do it - it's night and day. 2. Girls Rite of Passage: A couple months ago I asked if anyone knew of organizations that do mother:daughter rite of passage trips. Turns out there really aren't many. Tons exist for father:daughter and father:son, but it's pretty absent for mothers and daughters. That's crazy to me, because Chandler is far more qualified to guide Charleston (12) into womanhood than I am. So we made our own! Tomorrow, Chandler, her mother, and our 12-year-old are heading to visit Chandler's sister in Central America for a week. They'll mix normal life with visiting a school, visiting an orphanage, going to the beach, being good neighbors, and talking about womanhood. We're treating this as Charleston's entry into "apprenticeship" under Chandler - it comes with new freedoms (no bedtime, free access to food in our home) and new responsibilities (morning workouts with Chandler, meaningful household duties). I'll let you know how it goes! AMA 3. VidAngel: I actually learned about this from a reply to this newsletter. If you have kids and are sick of jumping for the remote because you forgot about "that one scene," I highly recommend VidAngel (no affiliate, just a fan). You set filters based on your preferences for language, violence, sexual content, etc., and it removes that content from shows on your streaming platforms - Amazon, Disney, Apple, HBO, etc... It's about $12/mo and 100% worth it. I can finally share my favorite movies and shows with my older kids without being on edge. That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and turn your phone off :) Best, Blake |
A couple things on my mind...
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Hey folks, A couple things on my mind... 1. How I Prep For Talks: I give 3-4 talks in a busy week, and each slide deck follows generally the same process: 1) Figure out what I'm going to say 2) Dictate/drop in writing/youtube transcripts/provide context to Claude 3) Claude and I co-create a coherent outline for the talk 4) I drop that outline into Gamma. 5) I edit it like Google Slides till I'm happy. I think I recommended Gamma a year ago and it's still the best IMO for building beautiful...
Hey folks, Just got back from FL last night and spent this morning getting everything back in order (thus the later send). Great vacation, but man I’m glad to be home. A couple things on my mind… 1. Career Strategy: Whenever I start to get worried or confused about what the future will hold for my career or for my children, I keep coming back to this Proverb: Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings - Proverbs 22:29 As a professional, no matter what, I have two goals:...
Hey folks, Writing from an Airbnb in Birmingham AL on our way down to FL right now. (It's nap time for littles, thus the late send.) A couple things on my mind... 1. Default LLM Setting: I saw this prompt from Marc Andreessen maybe 2-3 weeks ago and have since used it as the default setting for my Claude and Claude projects. It's been the most effective thing I've tried to keep Claude from trying to please me (agreeing with me, affirming me, making stuff up) instead of actually telling me the...