May 13, 2024: 7 Questions That Changed My Life
“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”
― Mae West
Hi friends,
How's everything going?
This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋
We hand-picked 3 good articles for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives. (You can read this online!)
📚 3 Good Articles for You
The AI Hardware Dilemma
by Evan Armstrong (6 mins)
- Recent AI-powered hardware releases have faced criticism, raising questions about their reception and the motivations of founders and investors.
- The surge in hardware development is attributed to the transformative potential of AI, which enables novel uses of existing smartphone components.
- However, competing with established devices like the iPhone poses significant challenges, pushing AI hardware companies to innovate on interfaces and software rather than hardware alone.
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7 Questions That Changed My Life
by Sahil Bloom (6 mins)
- Life-changing questions emphasize the importance of inquiry over mere answers.
- Questions include evaluating daily actions' long-term impact, aligning priorities with actions, gaining perspective as if the main character in a movie, identifying and removing "Boat Anchors" inhibiting progress, balancing information gathering with action, confronting internal lies, and considering actions with a 10-year horizon.
- The emphasis is on living the questions themselves, as answers will eventually emerge through introspection and experience.
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How startups beat incumbents
by Jason Cohen (22 mins)
- Startups can outperform incumbents by taking risks that cannot be quantified, addressing profitable niches, and doing delightful, valuable things that don’t scale.
- Unsurpassed customer service, leveraging new technology, and having an opinionated personality are key strategies for startups to exploit opportunities that incumbents cannot easily replicate.
- Being worse but acceptable in most dimensions, and being low-cost against a profit center, allows startups to carve out a niche and compete effectively against larger incumbents.
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📣 Community
- 🟨 Import highlights from Instapaper:
We added a new feature to import highlights from Instapaper. If you make highlights (note on Instapaper), you can import them into Glasp. Please check this tutorial to see how it works. - 🟦 Bookmark feature:
We added the bookmarking feature to Glasp. You can save a URL to read it later. Please check how to bookmark here 👀
👀 Featured Curator on Glasp
David Tran
David learns LLMs, writing, productivity, and more! Let’s follow David and learn together!
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❤️ Gratitude
We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!
- Something to “Glasp” Onto: Creating YouTube Video Transcripts on Chronicles from the World of Instructional Design
- The Founding Story of Silicon Valley Startup ‘Glasp’ on Medium
Thank you all for sharing and mentioning us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and/or in your blogs 🙂 We appreciate all of your support! Please feel free to ask us anything at any time! Also, feel free to join our Slack community ;)
Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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