Here's my conversation with Rick Beato (@rickbeato), a musician, music educator, producer, songwriter, and host of a YouTube channel that celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again.
I just reread "How to Do Great Work." It's so long! But it also has less fat than most things I've written, which is a weird combination, because usually writing that's long on the macro scale is long on the micro scale too. https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
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This week we had a BUNCH of updates 🍌🍌 Here’s what we announced: — Nano Banana 2, our SoTA image generation model, which you can use to generate images with real-world knowledge, add text in many languages, and bring your most creative ideas to life — Nano Banana, Veo 3.1, and Lyria 3 templates in @GeminiApp to empower easy image, video, and music track creation — @FlowbyGoogle got a major redesign, taking a big step towards becoming your AI creative studio — Opal by @GoogleLabs introduced a new agent step to turn static workflows into interactive experiences — @producer_ai, your music creation partner, officially joined Google Labs — To support AI literacy, Gemini training is now available to all 6 million K-12 teachers and higher-education faculty in the U.S. — New on-device AI features for the Samsung Galaxy S26 series that help you do things like detect scams or offload everyday tasks to Gemini
I made a super fun ASCII art editor that lets you animate images, videos and live cam. You can preview with HTML and export to JS. It's live on http://asc11.com
I have AIDHD. The models are so good that I’m working on 5 different projects a day. At first it felt like distraction, but I’ve shipped more features and apps in the last 3 months than ever before. AI made building fun again. It’s a better programmer than me, so I can focus on creativity instead. I’m grateful to be alive at this moment. Decades from now, people will look back at this era as the best time to be a maker. Huge respect to the people building the models so idiots like me can just make stuff.
I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved on. Growing to among top use cases. On the flip side, if you’re a writer trying to explain/communicate something, we may increasingly see less of a mindset of “I’m writing this for another human” and more “I’m writing this for an LLM”. Because once an LLM “gets it”, it can then target, personalize and serve the idea to its user.
CodeWisp (@usecodewisp) lets anyone create and publish web games with prompts. No game engines or complex workflows. Just describe the game you want, generate a playable game in seconds, and share it instantly. Congrats on the launch, @itsfuelvin! https://ycombinator.com/launches/Pbd-cod…
Little generative wallpaper tool I've been working on to create design assets for http://ui.sh customers ✨ One of the hardest parts about making something look great as a non-designer are the artistic flourishes, optimistic we can help a lot there by throwing simpler, more opinionated knobs in front of frontier image models.
A few days ago I shared a life calendar I built: your entire life, shown as weeks on your iPhone lock screen. A lot of people asked for it, so here it is: https://thelifecalendar.com I also added a yearly view to visualize the progress of the current year. Happy New Year
