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Welsh: Claude Projects is light years ahead of ChatGPT memory
“I find that the project's functionality is light years ahead of, like, ChatGPT's memory and things like that.”
Welsh: Non-expert AI image generation produces commoditized and identical visuals
“It's, it feels like commoditized to me at this point. It's supposed to be new and unique and interesting, but like every visual that I see, and by the way, I'm not an AI artist and most people who use it are not AI artists with the prompts. So they're just get…”
Welsh: Copywriting and content service agencies will rapidly lose pricing power
“The service they provide, their prices should be going down or you should be like, you should be spending one day next week, like designing all of your prompts. And if you really want somebody else to write your content for you, like the following week, you sh…”
James Clear and Tim Ferriss are building a new publishing product
“I believe that James Clear and Tim Ferriss are working on something as well that seems at least tangentially related to that.”
Welsh: Writing and thinking skills atrophy like muscles outsourced to AI
“It's like riding a bicycle. Like once you stop writing on your own or thinking on your own and you let something else do it for you, it atrophies.”
Welsh: Writing at 7th-grade reading level maximizes content engagement
“I've written in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, all the way up to 12th. And I will look at impressions. I will look at reply rate on my newsletter. I'll look at engagement. And that's seven to eight for me is just like where, where it hits.”
Welsh: Creator endorsements drive software adoption over commoditized competitors
“What I'm seeing is like the companies that are standing out in the publishing space, like a tweet hunter or a Tapleo have the big creators behind it. The big creators use it. The big creators talk about it. They sponsor the big creators newsletters. They're in…”
Justin Welsh buys creator products as financial tips without consuming them
“I actually think like I buy from a lot of creators just as a tip. Like there are creator friends of mine who create something that I absolutely have zero interest in consuming. And like when it comes out, I'll buy it because like, you know, if I read a hundred…”
Justin Welsh starts all content on X for its 10-minute feedback loop
“Everything that I do starts with a tweet, right? Like I might try and think of something interesting or useful to say on, on X, right? I throw those out there because there's a short feedback window. So, you know, you get feedback in 10 minutes, you know, whet…”