Neville's Digital Surrogate Brain
Interesting 30min listen from @a16z for anyone considering starting a newsletter. This has been my world for roughly 9 years, and it’s been fascinating to watch the re-emergence of private email lists and in-depth “blog-like” content:
a16z Podcast: So You Want to Launch a Newsletter—Tips From Writers
Easy way to show social proof for a product: Try linking the product to a more famous name (if true) like this:
[Your Product] + Used by, Mentioned by, Trusted by, Bought by, Official brand of, Got these results for…. + [Big Name]
If you add a constraint to a task, you’ll likely think of a way to finish it by then.
The best decision I made early on was to get into freelancing and then consulting work.
It forced me to explain my work to non-technical clients, and to learn how to teach.
Still learning to write, but @nevmed‘s book This Book Will Teach You To Write Better was a lifesaver.
-Matthew Weeks
@MWeeksDev
[IMAGE] + [ARROWS] + [LABELS]. You can transmit so much information in one picture like this.
There’s whole parts of Instagram showcasing barbering techniques, and they make AWESOME IMAGES that transmit tons of info in one graphic. It’s like a whole class on barbering in one image, like this:
Space stuff is cool, and I love watching science-y videos on YouTube about how space, time, gravity etc work.
Often times people don’t know WHAT they are though.
Like WHY does gravity warp things and attract things? No one knows.
But recently Stephen Wolfram developed a new model of what our universe runs on, and it looks pretty damn convincing:
The basics are:
– Our universe is just a blob of connections, the configuration of those connections form matter or space.
– Space and matter aren’t different things, they are the same.
– The increase in amount of connections is time.
– The curve of those connections on a hypergraph are gravity.
– The basic rule of the universe is probably super duper simple, like A –> B.
– A computer needed to run this universe would roughly need to have a speed of 10^400
– Since we are part of the system, there’s actually no way to know for sure what’s outside the system.
So while it doesn’t answer every question, it’s the first time I’ve seen solid evidence on how time, light, and gravity work.
It’s also cool to note that we could technically create a full universe like this with nearly a single line of code on a computer.
After watching the podcast (4.5 hours long) you can understand this chart much better:
I’m not sure it will have a day-to-day impact on anyone right away except physicists….but this is like going from thinking the Earth is flat, to realizing it’s round and orbits the sun. Pretty cool some dude just “invented” this…very inspiring and cool!
Or watch the video:
We went and live edited the copy on a product by TheHustle called The Ideation Bootcamp with CEO Sam Parr.This was an already great landing page, but we sprinkled some Copywriting Course magic on it to add some more sections to it that could massively boost conversions.
Here’s the resources we used:
– Google Doc Notes: [link]
– Full Livestream Video: [link]
– The Ideation Bootcamp: [link]
– The Original Sales Page: [link]
We hope by viewing this “consultation-like” video it inspires you to join Copywriting Course to get similar feedback in our active forum, and video Office Hours.
Below in this post are notes to make the page better. Enjoy!
You can see some more info and notes here:
https://copywritingcourse.com/live-copywriting-sam-parr-the-hustle/
Dude gets married because of a book I wrote in a Google Doc (You’re Gonna Die)…..might be the best comment I’ve ever got on a blog 😂
