What I'm up to - January 2023
Philip Ilic Thomas✨ Highlights of last month
- Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays
- Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest
- Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to social networks" and "How to replace social media with a personal newsletter", which were popular online
🤔 Things and thoughts to share
- Articles I've been reading: ‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes, How I got my attention back, Overton window (Wikipedia)
- Been reading Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami. Lots of great insights - including how he avoids writer's block.
- Been drinking the Prolog Jorge Vasquez Geisha, which is one of the better coffees I've had. Also, I've been enjoying a Kenyan coffee from Kahiwa Coffee Roasters in Finland. Kahiwa caught my attention because it's co-owned by F1 driver Valtteri Bottas.
- PromptHunt aggregates the prompts that people are using with AI. "Prompt developer" is an emerging job.
- Apple's new end-to-end iCloud encryption is a win for consumer privacy - I'm in the process of switching from Google Photos to iCloud because of this.
- Why are we rating everything? A former #1 restaurant in the world only has 4.6 stars on Google. Is that really useful?
📫 What I'm up to this month
- Adding lots of refinements to Postcard, and helping people switch over from Twitters's Revue product
- Working on some interesting projects with crypto and AI
📍 Where I'll be (Let me know if we overlap!)
- Jan 28 - Feb 4: 🇲🇽 Cozumel
- Feb 18-24: 🏙️ NYC
Turns out my dog likes beaches
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