A new Substack to showcase the work of upcoming creators
So I’ll make this quick.
You know I co-run The 6% Club (just ~5 seats left in the next cohort starting Jul 5, if you’re interesed, BTW). Since April 2024, we’ve been coaching several folks to refine, sharpen and launch their content projects. And we’ve done that - for many many people.
We’re very happy about many things about the program - feedback’s been great, and we have a 70% launch success rate… But there are many things that we fell short of, too. One of them was properly celebrating our creators.
After all, the best showcase of our program IS the work they put out.
Finally, this weekend, we put together a Substack that was 1.5 years too late.
Introducing - Fresh From The 6% Club.
A place to showcase recent work from a wide bevy of folks who have gotten started with their content creation journeys. Expect personal reflections, life lessons, music, thoughts on technology and business, fiction, and more. Across formats - from Substacks, to podcasts, to videos, to (hopefully one day!) an excerpt from a book.
Please go ahead and give the first edition a shot. I think you’ll find something there you like. And if you like what you see - do sign up. I promise you some interesting content from budding creators, every week.
Programming note - I had notes for a post I wanted to write here, on some ways branding might change in the world of AI… But got sidetracked getting the program’s Substack off the ground. So expect that next week! Onto the usual curations now…
Good reads
A case for Google breaking itself up rather than waiting for the courts to order it.
Can the Gulf buy its way to AI supremacy?
The courts - for now - seem to have sided with LLMs over authors. Anthropic wins a ‘fair use’ trial (though, faces the heat for the training data being pirated), and Meta won another one. The judge in the latter ruling pointed out the claimants used the wrong legal arguments - so expect cases with correct arguments coming. The AI v Creator copyright issue might just boil down to who has the better lawyers. Renu - a member of The 6% Club and a lawyer who writes about the intersection of law and tech - wrote about it here.
This week I learnt about the Strawberry Milk Mob, which is an interesting (if very 21st century) way to sell a product. Read from the relevant section here.
A kids-favourite cooking show (Tiny Chef) got cancelled and the show announced it in such a heartbreaking way that thousands are now trying to save the show!
AI is wearing down democracy (while there are some good facts and points in there, it’s the usual NYT boohoo. A good counterbalance is this Rest of World article from last year that spoke about how the Indian election of 2024 wasn’t the deepfake doomsday many feared it would be)
In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data.
Terrific read on why good ideas die quietly and bad ones go viral.
AI sells swords at dawn and shields at dusk. - outstanding piece by Praveen of The Ken (signupwall)
Best non-tech read of the week
(PS - It’s an NYT article, which is normally behind a paywall, but I’m using the “gift article” link - lemme know if it doesn’t work!)
Cute
Saw this on Amazon…
So I obviously reviewed a few more things to get to the joke…
Oh well, it tried.
See you next week with more things from the internet. And if you’re interested in getting a podcast / newsletter / content project idea off the ground… Do get in touch to sign up for The 6% Club by replying to this email. I offer readers of this newsletter a flat 10% off.
Chuck