Nick Manning ⌨️

Opus 5 Is Exhausting. Anthropic Reveals The Fix. youtu.be/szjakRcw7V0?si=7lNY… via @YouTube super useful!

Fascinating chat about Generative Engine Optimization youtu.be/f3x0F8rEDQ0?si=o9Bl… via @YouTube

So I'm crafting content for a small book and course over this winter break - heck why not? Topic not yet public! Yesterday was day 0. I’ll be documenting my naive shot at this - because again, why not? Maybe it can cajole others to give a go? At minimum I can get some helpful feedback along the way from others. Here’s what I did yesterday starting from absolute 0: 1. I recorded a brain dump video, talking about who, what, why, how etc about my idea. Somehow video recording myself "put me on the spot" and I was able to focus more on conciseness. 2. I generated a book/course outline from this. I uploaded the video to otter.ai to transcribe it. I refined it into a tentative chapter outline and dumped it into Notion. Side note: I typically like the otter.ai iOS app to quickly record my thoughts so that's why I went with that. And for some reason I'm not a huge fan of writing like this in Markdown (i.e. via Obsidian) so I'm trying Notion. I like the writing experience in Notion especially with the prospect of later collaborating with an editor later. 3. Then I recorded a brain dump video on "topic A”. So this time not a video, just for convenience. I used willowvoice.com's macOS app to just talk away for 30 minutes directly into Notion. Talking for about 30 minutes gave me roughly 2000 words. Calculating how much I need to do this gave me a lot of motivation. For example, I want to craft a book and course where someone can choose to read or consume video. For video, I want to keep it to max 2-3 hours so I'm going for 10k words per hour. Therefore I whittle it down 2000 words with heavy editing. I think that after a few weeks of repeating this process I can achieve this goal, then heavily edit the content down further. Notes for the engineers reading this (warning, needless geeking out here). I may consider just self publishing later later + host the video version on a microsite served by a simple web-app that pulls the content straight from Notion (cached of course when served up). I can later host multiple publications courses using that same web app as it could support multi-tenant (extract domain from HTTP header -> determine tenant to serve up, host on same VPS for dollars a month). substack.com/@seenickcode if anyone wants to keep tabs on my progress and gain some insights. Definitely not an expert on this entire process but I think the conversations will be interesting along the way.

Welp, the internet is down. Perfect time for a gym break.

CTR for reallocal.app is holding strong at a respectable 1% one percent - only two days in. For my first ad campaign test I’m happy for any small win. 🥇

12 products, 12 months in the EU. Here's a demo of the first product I'm validating! youtu.be/M8s0miZ8JHQ Shout out to @tdinh_me for the inspiration. Currently reading his awesome book.