This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🧠 AI IQ benchmarks
⚡ AI-native product teams
📊 A marketing attribution tool
🩹 Reframing failure as progress
🤖 ChatGPT’s effect on how you speak
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Environment shapes behavior.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
⚡ AI Product Manifesto shared by Mike Williams
A framework for fast-moving AI-native product teams
📊 Tulu shared by Rich Tank
An AI-powered marketing attribution platform
🧠 AI IQ is Here shared by Elia Zane
An article on ranking AI models with IQ-style benchmarks
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🪼 Dru Riley published The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish, on the math of simple systems
✍️ Knight posted his maker journal entry for April
📎 Alexandre Kantjas is hosting a workshop on Microsoft Office with Claude
🔎 Jason A Erickson published an interview with Dru Riley
📱 Elie Steinbock made an iOS app for Inbox Zero
❔ Ask Yourself
Why Do You Sound More Like ChatGPT Than You Did 2 Years Ago?
ChatGPT says “delve” far more than normal people do. Studies now show that real people have started saying it more too.
Here’s what’s going on:
- AI trains on human data, people start mimicking AI. AI trains on that new data and the distortion grows.
- Algorithms show you what makes money for them. Over time, that warped picture becomes your baseline.
- Ask ‘Why’ before you accept what you see. Why am I seeing this? Why am I using this word? Why does this feel true? Otherwise, the platform’s version of reality quietly becomes yours.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
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📘 Read This
How Did Leonardo da Vinci Turn His Worst Failure Into His Best Work?
Derrick Reimer failed trying to compete with Slack.
When the initial pain subsides, not all is lost. Here are 10 ways to think about failure differently:
- Reframe failure as a beginning. Leonardo da Vinci’s worst public failure (losing the Sistine Chapel commission) pushed him into architecture, engineering and anatomy. It became the beginning of his greatest work.
- Study the output math. Nobel winners publish twice as many papers as non-winners. Picasso made 20,000 works. Edison filed 1,093 patents. The number of your best ideas is directly tied to your total output.
- Practice kintsugi thinking. The ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold doesn’t hide the cracks, it makes them the most valuable part. Mended objects, like mended people, are usually stronger.
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