The One-person Billion-dollar Company, Career Transitions: A Step-by-step Framework, Apple Vision Pro, and More

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“The One-person Billion-dollar Company” by Evan Armstrong/Napkin Math: Sam Altman recently claimed that someday soon, AI would enable the creation of a one-person billion-dollar company. This is a very cool idea, but is it even possible? Evan has a personal interest in this topic because AI tools have writers’ careers in their crosshairs. Read this if you want to see the napkin math and strategy required to build what Altman is proposing. 

“Career Transitions: A Step-by-step Framework” by Stella Garber: If, on every Sunday night, you look in the mirror and contemplate burning your life to the ground, first off, welcome to Corporate America. Secondly, you should probably tackle the question of “What do I do with my life?” with a little more rigor. Thankfully startup founder and former Trello executive Stella Garber has a framework to help you intelligently approach the question of what to do next with your career. Read this if you want to be smart about your next professional move. 

🎧 “How to Make a Video Game With ChatGPT in 60 Minutes” by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: The future of AI is being able to make anything you imagine come to life quickly, easily, and cheaply. In this episode of How Do You Use ChatGPT?, Dan and Logan Kilpatrick, OpenAI's first developer relations advocate, build a video game in 60 minutes with the help of ChatGPT. Read/watch this if you want to see how OpenAI employees are using the tools they built. 🔏 Paid subscribers have exclusive access to Dan’s analysis of the episode and the transcript.