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320: Earning $300K+ Per Year Without Social Media | Jessica Lac…
My guest is Jessica Lackey, founder of Deeper Foundations and author of Leaving the Casino: Stop Betting on Tactics and Start Building a Business That Works. She helps coaches, consultants, and service providers build expert-led businesses on strong foundations.
From what babies wear to who they are: Carter’s big shift
A well-dressed baby never goes unnoticed. Strangers gush… and offer unsolicited advice.
Voting only gets you so far
Read to the end for a really good storefront
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
At the pearly gates, Dolly Parton, in a sparkling gown, stands arm in arm with Tim Curry, dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. “I knew I chose the right plus one,” Parton says to God, who is standing at heaven’s reception desk. That’s the premise of a cartoon that went viral on Twitter in the days after
How a plan to turn the Spokane Spokesman-Review into “The People’s Paper” ended in a newsroom revolt
When the Spokesman-Review announced plans to transfer Spokane’s 143-year-old, family-owned newspaper to a nonprofit founded by executive editor Rob Curley, it took over the front page. “The People’s Paper,” read the April 16, 2025, headline, saying ownership would transfer “to you, the community.” Key to the plan was Curley, the folksy self-proclaimed “journalism nerd” who
🎙️ How I AI: 8 real Jev use cases + How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) + Claire’s DevDay recap
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
Poynter wins national ‘Hero Award’ for work to preserve news archives
The award from the Internet Archive is shared with IRE for joint project to train newsrooms to retain vital digital archives over time.
Trump lashes out at Kaitlan Collins, then wakes up angry at Fox News
Trump singled out the CNN anchor before a hostile crowd, then renewed his attacks on Fox and Jessica Tarlov
Advice for young Black journalists from an editor who used to be one
Young, gifted and unemployed? One Black editor’s advice for making a way in an industry that hasn’t always made room for you.
Afterparty: Automated actions for meeting deliverables | Product Hunt
Note takers give you a list. Afterparty does the list. Paste a transcript or connect your note taker, and agents draft every email, message, invite and CRM note in the right app, with context from your tools. Nothing goes out until you approve it.
Reason: A state-of-the-art coding agent for cost efficiency | Product Hunt
Reason is a state-of-the-art coding for cost efficiency. We scored higher than harnesses like Codex & Pi on benchmarks like Terminal Bench 4.0 and DeepSWE while being 22% cheaper. Reason can work in the cloud or locally. Give it a task and it writes code, runs tests and opens a pull request. Use Reason from the Mac app, terminal, web or Slack, with your choice of models and connected subscriptions. Start free on your own computer or cloud!
How to Use AI to Survive (and Even Enjoy) Meetings | Sam Stephenson
Watch now (33 mins) | Granola’s co-founder on the AI habits that help him show up prepared, plus how his team avoids AI slop and burnout
How the founder behind the latest Girl Scout Cookie jolted an industry
A tough day definitely deserves a cookie. But for one founder, a cookie was only the beginning of a tough journey — one that ultimately led to more cookies for more people.
OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
Tibo Sottiaux leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Under his stewardship, OpenAI has shipped some of its most consequential consumer launches: Codex, ChatGPT Work, and most recently, the new Dots personal agent platform. He joined me at DevDay, hours after his team launched more than 20 new products, to talk about where things are heading.
SaidTrace: Private voice memos. Your choice of AI. | Product Hunt
Your recordings should stay with you. Your AI should be your choice. Record on your iPhone, Apple Watch, or recorder. SaidTrace brings your audio to your Mac for transcripts and notes. Choose your AI model, ask questions, and trace answers back to the original recording.
Streaming does not measure relevance
Here's your Garbage Intelligence for September 2026
A CEO tried to bully a journalist into silence. He failed
This week, we notched another win for free speech
Paramount CEO asks Mark Thompson to stay on at CNN after the merger. Will he?
Reports state that Thompson will insist that CNN has editorial independence in order to remain on board as CNN’s leader.
No, Joe Biden didn’t ban 440 reporters from the White House
Trump and his allies cited a Biden-era press policy to defend the White House’s ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW. The comparison doesn’t hold up.
Talanoa: Email that feels like chat | Product Hunt
Talanoa is your first email messenger. It turns messy email threads into clean, chat-like conversations, removing quotes, signatures and clutter along the way. Turn emails into actionable todos, manage your calendar without leaving your inbox, and use private, on-device AI to search, summarize and write. Connect Gmail, Outlook, iCloud or any IMAP account in one unified inbox. Everything stays on your computer: no cloud sync, no tracking, no one reading your emails.
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