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Jun 2
Estonia gave all of its 10th and 11th graders their own ChatGPT accounts to use for school.
-No one knows how the experiment will turn out.
-At the core of Estonia’s high school initiative is a custom “Socratic” version of OpenAI’s chatbot that refuses to complete students’ work for them.
-Instead, it’s instructed to do things such as help plan how to approach a task, or ask questions to explore one’s thinking.
-So far, about 62% of students with access to the school ChatGPT have activated their account, and about 35% use it regularly.
-A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers say.
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Jun 1
Nature has had 3.8 billion years of R&D to solve complex survival, scaling, and efficiency problems.
This database curates over 1,800 biological strategies that you can directly translate into human innovation, business frameworks, and product design.
If you're stuck on a product or growth problem, your solution might already exist in the wild: asknature.org/biological-str…
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Jun 1
Over the past year, I decided to seriously tighten up my business and cut all unnecessary expenses.
Right now, I only pay for: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Workspace, Memelords (lol), and my social security contributions and taxes.
For everything else, I started relying on free alternatives. It’s not always easy, but my profit margin is now 95% , which is great.
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May 21
Here we go again, guys. 😱
Today we released the May 2026 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/inc…
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May 18
Have We Reached Peak AI?
"Will I am, the Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur, debuted as a college professor in January 2026, teaching "The Agentic Self," a 16-week artificial intelligence course at Arizona State University where students learn to create their own AI agents."
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May 12
Great marketing experiments here, from a founder who knows a few things about marketing.
May 12
Some marketing things we've done this year to help us get more people trialing Referral Factory:
1. Me appearing on more podcasts (talking about referral marketing)
2. Using clipping tools and turning this podcast content into social content and YT shorts (does well)
3. Full software review / deep dive articles on external publications
4. Collaborating with YouTubers to review our software (cough cough paying them)
5. Full website restructure - removing dead or irrelevent topic clusters (lots of no indexing) and also brining everything under one menu not blog on one subdomain and help on another subdomain.
6. Asking our customers for referrals and reviews constantly
7. Publishing more case studies / real success stories on our website
8. Hired an actor and producing a lot more YouTube content for our channel
Something we've found is freshness is so much more important than it used to be for SEO. Like what is the internet saying about you right now, not two years ago.
Also videos get WAY more interactions, views and comments than long form blog posts. I really think only bots will read 3000 word blog posts these days 😂
Some things we're not doing that others swear by:
1. Capterra / G2 spend on premium profiles - should we be doing this? We used to and have stopped as i just didn't see the ROI there.
2. Shipping constantly and talking about it on X. We are shipping a lot, but its not really part of our content - should it be?
3. Aggressively commenting on reddit. We maybe comment once or twice as a team, but not hiring an agency to do it aggressively. Should we be doing this?
4. Buying links. We're now getting less links but more real ones as we just try make good content and hope people reference it :)
5. Having a target number of blog posts to write monthly - we hardly make new posts anymore, just update old ones and then focus only on video format for new content.
Something interesting: our traffic has dropped overall, but mostly because we were ranking for tons of irrelevent and unrelated keywords before - so by cleaning that up we may get less traffic, but we get much better quality traffic and that leads to more people actually starting a trial ✅
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May 12
This is great!
Collecting invoices and checking them for the correct billing address and stuff like that is the worst day of the month for me too.
I just hate this; it's like an hour of work max, but it's so boring and it always feels like a waste of time.
By far THE most annoying part of running a business for me is collecting receipts for my accountant
Every month my accountants hounds me for invoices and receipts of every single expense I did, doesn't matter how tiny like $0.50, sometimes also for income (I don't know why)
Most companies charge monthly so that means collecting 12 invoices per year at least
One reason I am canceling so many SaaS is not even the cost, it's just that I hate bookkeeping so much so I think if I don't spend the money, I don't need to collect invoices and receipts for every single payment every month (also I like extremely high profit margins like 99.99%)
I'm down to just about 10 companies I pay now, like Cloudflare, Hetzner, Backblaze etc. so that means only ~120 invoices to collect per year cause most are paid monthly
Yes I have an automatic email filter that forwards invoices to my accountant but many companies do NOT send you an automatic invoice by email
So you're talking about logging in to 10 websites, them sending you a 2FA code by email, opening your email, entering the code, trying to find wherever the Billing page is hidden, going to Invoices, opening the invoice, clicking Download to DPF (if it even exists)
This week I tried to improve this, my accountant uses Xero, so I made a Xero API key, gave it to Claude Code, and asked it to login and figure stuff out, then it just asks me which expenses still need a receipt and a note, I find it and drag the PDF or screenshot into Claude Code and it resolves it
Next step is letting it login to all my vendors and also download the invoice by itself which seems very very possible
Much easier!
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May 4
Selling brand mentions for Reddit is great, and also pretty profitable.
But I think the next big thing would be community building for brands that want to own a subreddit.
I'm not talking about branded subreddits but topical ones i.e. r/EmailMarketing.
Building a good community is really hard and comes with many challenges, but this is why brands would pay big money for it.
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May 3
The end of an era...
May 2
Ask just shut down, book-ending one of the great internet what-ifs.
It was founded as AskJeeves in 1996 and acquired Excite in 2004 in a $343m deal.
In 1999, Excite had turned down offer from Sergey Brin & Larry Page to buy Google for $750k (so they could finish Stanford PhDs).
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Apr 28
The best SEO strategy for your brand might actually be to post on a boring Subreddit.
If your brand isn't being mentioned in these communities, you’re losing the "trust" battle before the customer even hits your landing page.
Stop ignoring the forums.
Start providing value where the conversations are actually happening.
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Apr 22
Holy smokes, this is insane!
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Alek Asaduryan retweeted
Apr 15
Oh, maybe this is why more and more people are asking me about my Reddit marketing service.
🚨 GOOGLE: now has a "what people are saying" box in search results pulling from:
- youtube shorts
- instagram reels
- linkedin posts
- reddit
- x/twitter
- medium
if you're only doing blog SEO you're missing half the SERP real estate, social is now part of the SEO channel
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