11.6.23: Gordon's Weekly Recommendations

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(Art with help from AI ChatGPT-DALL-E3 using the prompt: “photo-like image of 2 panda bears dressed as women standing and toasting one another with mint juleps”)

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

AI is, in part, to thank for The Beatles’ final song: Machine learning helped Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr (w George Harrison vocals by AI) turn an old John Lennon demo into their last song as a group. It’s brilliant!

• With a Little Help from AI: The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Audio)

POSTS: Recommended Reading

A guide to help salons compare and contrast features/offerings on salon-focused tech tools:

The Salon Today 2023 Technology Guide’

Seth Godin’s blog post on “community”. The value of which in beauty is at perhaps an all-time low. Will see if 2024 brings us a resurgence. 🤞🤞🤞

• Community: We so need you back!

APPS: Recommended From the App Store

Get an AI meeting assistant that records audio, writes notes, captures action items, and generates summaries.

• Otter AI Meeting Assistant!

PODCASTS

Hard Fork is a brilliantly geeky, fun, long-form podcast. I strongly recommend upping your player speed to at least 1.5 (i go with 2x) for this one:

• Hard Fork on AI Executive Order and more

My all-new episodes:

Social Beauty Makers: AI won’t take your job BUT....

Mastering Beauty: The Power of Team

Wishing you a most beautiful week(!),

gordon

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