Necessarily Obsessed

Hey fellow ambitious human 👋

Merely wanting it is not enough! This issue’s got some game-changing tech news and some perception altering shares.

• 💁‍♀️ In the future, Alexa will be useful

• ☎️ You think spam calls are bad now? Lol, LMAO even

• 🚀 Lessons from Elon Musk

— Collin, Cookmarks

3 Shared Insights 🔥

1. Imagine a world where you say “Call Laura” and your voice assistant doesn't cheerfully respond with “Okay, calling Grandma.” This could be a reality as early as October, as Amazon moves to power Alexa with Anthropic’s Claude AI.
   
   AJ Ghergich reposted this tweet from TestingCatalogue News.
   

   As a Siri user who's perfected the art of the frantic “Cancel Cancel!”, I'm eager to see if this AI upgrade will finally let us trust our voice assistants with more than just setting timers.

2. Minimum necessary obsession is a concept that will ring true for any ambitious person with a graveyard of abandoned projects.
   
   Kunal Shah shared this insight from Anu that can serve as a reminder to refocus or reevaluate when the mission and all that needs to be done to accomplish it feels overwhelming.

3. The global call centre industry will generate an estimated US$390 billion in 2024 and employs millions worldwide.
   
   Troubling implications for those who depend on call centre jobs to pay their bills but if Bland can manage to capture even a fraction of this market, those early investors will be happy.
   
   We are indeed living in wild times.

2 From the Source 🧠

1. Imagine all the wise people who told Henry Ford how terrible an idea it was to invest everything into building cars when the entire world relied on horses for transportation.

   
   Side note: is AI a bigger disruptor today than the automobile would have been at the time of its invention?

2. It's difficult to imagine this being an effective tactic at a company the size of Tesla, but then again... gestures vaguely at Cybertruck.
   

   Lesson: We're not all Elon, but when in doubt, bias toward action.

1 Key Ingredient 🧪

Playground is an impressive new AI-powered logo generator for your next project. It’s got both free and paid options.

There are plenty of AI image generators out there capable of making some incredible visuals but most are surprisingly bad at making logos (or anything containing text.)

A cool thing Suhail, Playground’s founder, talks about is how he’s hired human graphic designers to train the AI responsible for image generation on the platform.

AI is still not outright replacing good designers, but the days of paying someone on the other side of the Earth $50 on Fiverr and getting a half-decent logo back 3 days later are behind us.

Check out Playground here.

CookMemes 🫡