The Early-Stage Marketer
Marketing insights for marketers with 0 - 3 years of work experience in early-stage startups.
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A Simple Way to Avoid AI Slop (opens the original)
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I’m seeing a resurgence of conversations around AI slop, and I think it’s a really interesting conversation to be having right now. It’s amazing to see how quickly we went from declaring the role of content writing dead, proclaiming that those who want to survive had better be content engineers, which requires nearly zero content writing and more of “architecting” systems.Less than a year later, we’re back to complaining about AI slop, with some folks building workflows that help you erase AI sl
Give Away Your Legos... to AI (opens the original)
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Some years ago, I read Molly Graham’s popular article “Give Away Your Legos”. She’s had a really interesting career; has built teams at Google, Facebook, Quip, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.Her original point was about scaling startups: when new teammates join, don’t clutch your responsibilities out of fear they’ll take your job. Hand over the Legos and go build a bigger tower.Recently, I’ve been thinking about it in a whole new context: Giving away your Legos to AI.I know how that sounds.
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