David Spinks
person on 3 shows · 8 statements across 2 episodes · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2021
My First Million 4 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
Top Founders 1
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My First Million 4the Startup Ideas Podcast 3Top Founders 1
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Spinks: People only realize the extent of burnout after completely stopping work
“Burnout is something that you aren't always totally aware of in the moment, or you might know that you're tired or you're exhausted but you don't really know the extent. That's the kind of thing that like, until you stop everything, like you put everything dow…”
Spinks: Communities Revolving Around One Leader Are Overly Centralized and Unhealthy
“If your community revolves all around you, that's probably a red flag to begin with, that it's very it's overly centered on, on one person, and you're not creating more of a distributed sense of connection and responsibility and leadership.”
Isenberg: Proofreading AI output makes claiming human authorship ethically acceptable
“I think if the bot makes the decision to like send the email, then to me, the ethics, the ethical thing to do is to be like, this was sent by a bot. But if David Spinks is behind, you know, chat GPT in the sense that he put it, you put, you prompted it, you lo…”
Spinks: Using AI Writing Tools Is No More Unethical Than Ghostwriting
“So, you know, I don't think it's unethical any more than, I don't know, this dude is using a ghostwriter unethical.”
Spinks: ChatGPT writes better community moderation responses than I do
“I had ChatGPT respond to someone who made, like, a vulgar comment in the community, and it was really good. Like, it was maybe better than what I would have written to moderate a community when a member violates the rules and says something offensive.”
Spinks: Considering launching an investment fund for community-based companies
“One thing I thought about is doing a sort of fund for community, so being able to invest in community-based companies and community-based software”
Puri: CMX would be worth $100M if launched in 2020
“He just, if he started that like two years ago, instead of seven years ago, that would be like a hundred million dollar company right now.”