Weekly Waves 🌊 – 13 January 2023

The latest from software developer and entrepreneur, Anthony Corletti.

Jan 13

Hi all! Happy Friday the 13th 😱

Here is your weekly wave, a list of what I’m pondering and exploring. Please feel free to forward this along to your friends if you enjoyed it!

📜 Post I’m Loving

I love reading about how old companies reinvent themselves.

This post is a great read for any entrepreneur, business owner, leader, or any professional who's seeking to make a better change for others in the world.

The Honest Broker

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

I’ve written too many negative stories about digital media platforms in recent months. I’ve started to worry. Am I turning into Dr. Doom and Mr. Gloom? In all fairness, my predictions have proven sadly accurate. After I served up these dismal forecasts for…

3 months ago · 177 likes · 50 comments · Ted Gioia

It’s all about realizing who is the best person or group of people to enact change for your business, and giving them free range to go and do so.

🤖 Useful AI tool I’ve Found

Prompt Hunt

AI is ushering in a wave of questions around what it means to generate and curate content.

Prompt Hunt is a way to accelerate your content generation and increase quality with AI by giving you the best prompts for what you’re making.

☁️ Database I’m Using

Neon!

Neon is such an amazing experience. It’s a fantastic UX for serverless Postgres, is so simple to set up, and pairs nicely with Modal as a database service.

I’ve already started to use Neon for a few side projects and can't wait to watch the project grow. (If the Neon team is reading this I’d love some increased storage limits 🙏)

👨‍💻 Side Project I’m Working On

Turbo

Another shameless plug! Turbo is a GPT3 powered assistant. Turbo uses the context of your email to make a booking immediately; no need for Calendly, integrations, or account connecting. It’s super secure!

Simply sign up and cc turbo whenever you need to schedule a meeting.

You can learn more by visiting https://corletti.xyz/tryturbo.

I’ve also written a few blog posts about this. Check them out here!

🥩 Subscription Service I’m Using

Crowd Cow

I order all of our meat and seafood through Crowd Cow and love it. The ordering process is super easy and you can put your orders on hold if you need to while maintaining your subscriptions delivery schedule without fees!

Thanks for taking a moment to read Weekly Waves. I hope you liked it!

Please give me feedback on Twitter! Which of the above is your favorite? What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @anthonycorletti and put #weeklywaves at the end so I can find it.

Have a wonderful weekend!

– Anthony