How do you rebrand a $50 Udemy Course into a $50,000 Udemy course? Sprinkle on some costly signals and call it a “degree”.
Snippets
$80.7 billion of Warren Buffett’s $81 billion net worth was accumulated after his 50th birthday. Seventy-eight billion of the $81 billion came after he qualified for Social Security, in his mid-60s.
- Morgan Housel, The Freakishly Strong Base
The more homogenous your tribe, and the more each of you are peers with one another, the more inevitable mimetic conflict becomes.
- Alex Danco, Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard
Sponsored by me (because I built a new thing)
StorySmith: Personalized stories for kids.
I was reading a book to my 2-year-old niece last month when a new idea struck me. Could I build an app that created stories on demand with my niece as the main character? Given the advances in AI, it seemed possible.
So I built it.
It’s called StorySmith, and if you’re a parent, an uncle, or an aunt, you’ll probably find it useful.
You’ll never run out of stories again.