Opus is the new Sonnet 🫢

A friend sent me this today. He was researching a YouTuber in Claude, and Claude cited ThoughtLeaders for the channel's numbers. First thought: Yes! This is exactly what we’ve been working so hard for at ThoughtLeaders. What I keep coming back to: I only know this happened because he sent it to me. There was no signup. No web traffic registered on our Google Analytics. No form fill, no ping in our slack leads channel. Claude pulled our data into a private conversation with a user and every metric we normally watch is blind to it. If he hadn't screenshotted it, I'd never know. That's the shift. Everyone is going to be working inside agents and AI tools soon. The UI is going away, and most of what these tools do happens in private. Companies are getting cited, referenced, recommended, with no trail at all. Citations like this build brand, and they'll turn into sales. They just don't leave the fingerprints we're used to measuring. A lot to unpack here. It's a new world we're living in. And my take on it is that it requires a leap of faith to build for it and believe strongly that you’re going in the right direction when you don’t always get confirmation back. We’re pushing hard at ThoughtLeaders, but I’m very happy for the friends sending me screenshots :)

This podcast turned into an all out verbal fistfight between Jensen Huang and Dwarkesh Patel. I did not see this coming! Spoiler alert: Jensen destroyed him. Around 1:10:00 they start really arguing over whether the US should sell the most advanced chips to China. I went into this thinking that we shouldn’t. After listening to Jensen, I changed my mind. Here’s where the heat really picks up: This podcast turned into an all out verbal fistfight between Jensen Huang and Dwarkesh Patel. I did not see this coming! Spoiler alert: Jensen destroyed him. Around 1:10:00 they start really arguing over whether the US should sell the most advanced chips to China. I went into this thinking that we shouldn’t. After listening to Jensen, I changed my mind. Here’s where the heat really picks up: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… His argument is that China will get the compute they need to train the best models anyway, and it’s silly to not have them build on the American tech stack and get them locked in to that. Also, he says that the developer ecosystem of cuda is the most valuable asset of nvidia. With 50% of the AI researchers in the world in China, they are missing out on a gigantic part of the market that could be developers contributing to and using cuda. Very curious to hear what other people think about this. Should the US let nvidia sell the most advanced chips to China? P.S. I listened to Jensen on Lex Fridman recently, and that was a great conversation with tons of insights. This Dwarkesh interview was completely different. Adversarial the whole time. It’s not often you get the chance to listen to probably the best CEO in the world in such a heated argument.

Hot take: Claude code > Cowork… for everything. I tested Cowork, didn't like it, and went all-in on Claude Code instead. Now I'm pushing the rest of ThoughtLeaders to do the same. The part most people miss: you don't have to write any code to use it. Our finance team generates customer account statements in Claude Code. Marketing builds our email newsletters in it. SEO work on the website runs through it. I use the desktop app to send emails, pull company data, and build reports. One more tip for the non-engineers: don't panic when Claude Code throws an error or flags a code problem. Just ask it about it. Or screenshot the error and paste it back in. A few rounds of that and it solves its own problems. If you've written it off as a developer tool, take another look.

The team put together an awesome report using our platform data for anyone interested in DTC marketing, especially on YouTube and podcasts

Yep, marketers can get catfished too. 🐟 Want to avoid that awkward conversation with your boss on why you spent $10K on Instagram bots last quarter? We thought so. Read up on how to spot fake #influencers with fishy followers via @Thoughtldrs. buff.ly/34gGJ4p

This is so cool. Great article by our @Thoughtldrs team digging into @benandjerrys history of marketing with a higher purpose

I can confirm. Same thing happening to our site, and only for users in Israel. @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp @CloudflareDev please help!

I remember tuning in to AOL to watch dave play live from Central Park in ‘03. The world was really different back then, but somethings never change #PayItForwardLIVE x.com/i/events/1242569972498…

After 10 years of "the parenting show for everyone", we're going to miss @longestshortest. A highlight this year was their Sperm Series, where host @andreasilenzi dove into the tricky and potentially icky process of finding sperm to make a kid: longestshortesttime.com/epis…

This is super cool. So many childhood memories playing Sims

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We're always on the lookout for great websites using new domain extensions. Check out this website: thoughtleaders.io which uses the .io domain name. .io is perfect for technology companies and startups. Thoughtleaders.io connects brands with communities #DomainNames

This is why I love ⁦@Hustle_Says⁩ 😁 what a sentence, pure genius

"Trump did not notice that it was missing" let that sink in

Great post by Daniel Conn about how to make the most out of sponsored content campaigns lnkd.in/dCDgdcg ThoughtLeaders (We're hiring!) lnkd.in/dwH4ViG

This is why i love reading @Hustle_Says every day. Genius writing

1/ The first 18 months of starting a company is often life or death. I must've made 5 different companies that each failed within 9 mo. 😭 Each time the company failed I figured out what I could do better. Eventually startup #6 got to $40K/mo by month 18. Here’s what I learned...

Somebody dropped this in my mentions and it needs to be said and spread widely: Sarah Huckabee Sanders got more due process at that restaurant than a migrant mother with an infant will get at the border.

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