6.10.24: Gordon's Weekly Recommendations

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(Art with help from ChatGPT-4o with my prompt: “3D claymation-style image of two robot barbers in a competition for best barber”)

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

Epic design platform Canva got a major facelift! Here are release highlights:

• Meet the NEW Canva | Canva Create 2024 Updates

Bonus video on using artificial intelligience TODAY:

• 5 Practical Uses of AI for Work or School w Kevin Stratvert

POSTS: Recommended Reading

‘Less is more’ should be a guiding principle for engagement - online, on social, & in person. Less ‘friction’ matters (or so thinks Netflix!)

• Netflix’s latest redesign aims to simplify your homepage

I’ve said since 2017 that online “community is mostly dead” - and I stand by that statement today more than ever. Meta is working to change(?).

• Meta quietly rolls out Communities on Messenger

APPS: Recommended in the App Store

Looking for an AI chatbot to help lighten the daily workload (from writing emails, managing tasks, generating images, and more)?

• ZDNET tested dozens of AI chatbots since ChatGPT's debut. Top picks episode

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

Loving this from Glossy Beauty on marketing to 40 year+ old women:

• AS Beauty Group's Sara Mitzner: 'We keep women 40 and older in mind'

Dyson founder on how they value the idea of ‘tinkering’!

• Bonus: Masters of Scale: "Tinker your way to scale", with Sir James Dyson

My latest podcast episodes:

• 80. The Destruction Continues: The Bad Idea App Edition

• Mastering Beauty ENCORE: Financial Literacy Pt 1, Ulta’s Anna Manukyan

Wishing you a most beautiful week(!),

gordon

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