Dec 5, 2022The Gambler re-written to be about a comedian who has run out of joke ideasCreated with ChatGPT on a single attempt [Verse 1] On a warm summer’s evenin’ on a stage with a mic I stood up to tell jokes, but I was feeling dry My mind was blank and empty, I was struggling to think Of something funny to say, but my audience…Humor2 min readHumor2 min read
Jan 28, 2021The Ultimate FoodI usually write about why marketing is wrong at MarketingBS. It is the smartest and funniest take on why everything marketers are doing is wrong. You should subscribe. Or just follow me on Twitter.Venn Diagrams1 min readVenn Diagrams1 min read
Nov 20, 2020The Impact of Gender on Uber Driver PayCody Cook (PhD student, Stanford) and Paul Oyer (Economics Professor, Stanford) have a forthcoming paper that the gender pay gap for Uber drivers. It has long been known that while Uber drivers are paid “gender blind”, male drivers as a group consistently make more per hour of driving. …Uber3 min readUber3 min read
Aug 31, 2020The media I consumeJust putting this all in one place so I can link to it rather than re-sending each time I am asked. (last updated Aug 31/2020) In no particular order: Blogs: Marginal Revolution Kevin Drum (Mother Jones) Daring Fireball EconLog SMBC Collaborative Fund askblog AVC Paul Graham Essays Roots of Progress SlateStarCodex Newsletters: Stratechery The Diff A Media Operator WSJ Bloomberg NYTs WaPo EconomistMedia1 min readMedia1 min read
Aug 17, 2020GPT-3 writes Marketing BSA friend with GPT-3 access plugged in a recent Marketing BS essay and then asked GPT-3 to continue the post in the same writing style and provide an example to support my argument. The result is pretty incredible. Italics was the sample provided. Everything after “One example:” is GPT-3: Last…Gpt 33 min readGpt 33 min read
Aug 11, 2020The Impact of Apple’s IDFA on Facebook Advertising (prediction)I’m not ready to write a full essay on this, but a friend asked the question, so I thought I would share my “off the top of my head” response somewhere other than private email. The situation: Apple is going to block the ability of Facebook to track the “full…Apple2 min readApple2 min read
Aug 4, 2020Breaking: GPT-3 leaked plot points from future Marvel Cinematic Universe filmsI fed GPT-3 (OpenAI’s very impressive text prediction software tool) summaries of existing MCU films and had it describe the plots of the upcoming films. We won’t know for sure how accurate this super-powered AI is until the films come out. But I am optimistic it has read between the…Marvel Cinematic Universe17 min readMarvel Cinematic Universe17 min read
Jul 27, 2020AI branding Exercise #3: Golf BallsI am using AI Dungeon to create a simulation where you pretend to be a CMO working with a consultant to name a new product. I first wrote about it here. Exercise #2 was about water bottles. I thought the second attempt had too much description amd not enough dialog…Gpt 38 min readGpt 38 min read
Jul 22, 2020AI branding Exercise #2: Water BottlesI used AI Dungeon to create a simulation where you pretend to be a CMO working with a consultant to name a new product. I first wrote about it here. Since then I have been refining the AI to improve it’s performance. Here is one of the attempts where we…AI6 min readAI6 min read
Jul 20, 2020Using AIDungeon as an advanced AI-Marketing ConsultantOpenAI has recently opened up beta for GTP-3, and as everyone who is testing it is saying, it is “shockingly good”. Unfortunately, most of us non-tech celebrities do not have access to the API. We are left looking at screenshots of people who are using it for everything imaginable. …Marketing10 min readMarketing10 min read
