This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💰 Redefining wealth
📊 An AI spreadsheet tool
⚠️ Common AI agent traps
📈 Optimization vs. growth
🏔️ The power of consistency
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
The fear of something is often worse than the reality.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📈 Growth vs. Optimization shared by Elia Zane
A podcast episode on how to avoid optimization creep
⚠️ AI Agent Mind Viruses shared by Eddie Forson
3 common pitfalls in coding AI agents
📊 Paradigm shared by Hitesh Kar
An AI spreadsheet tool to automate data collection and research
🧿 Guess the Company
This global consulting firm just launched an AI chatbot that can answer questions with decades of consulting insights.
Imagine having instant access to insights behind some of the world’s biggest business decisions.
The democratization of knowledge is accelerating.
Can you name the company?
- Accenture
- McKinsey
- Booz Allen
- Deloitte
Don’t cheat: You can read more about this here.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley added Slack and webhook integrations to HeadsUp
🦉 Jakub Nowikowski launched Noic
🔋 Sofia Vistas launched the beta version of Undodesk
⚖️ Josh Kubicki wrote about the implications of AI use in law
🖥️ Yuyu launched What Is My Screen Size
🔧 Try This
Why Do Most People Quit Right Before Their Breakthrough Moment?
To be great, be consistently good at what you do, day after day:
- Focus on being predictably decent rather than occasionally spectacular
- Push through the local minimums where most people quit
- Take actions that create predictable results
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast
📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI
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Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Best blogging platforms
- (📈 Pro) Building LLM chatbot apps
- (📈 Pro) Best prompt engineering courses
❔ Ask Yourself
What If Wealth Has Nothing to Do With Making More Money?
Derek Sivers breaks down wealth into a simple equation: Wealth = Have/Want:
- Wealth is about feeling like you have plenty of what you want
- Play the inner game instead of the outer game — seek ways to want less
- Lowering your desires instead of boosting your income is a shift that makes you rich immediately
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