The future of AI-generated cold outreach emails
Will be something like this:
Hey Ross!
Too bad your grandma died recently—man, Alzheimer’s really is rough! I also love speed-solving Rubik’s Cubes as much as you do (Fridrich method, anyone!?). I think it’s great how you got your hair cut two days ago, it looks really cool, and way to go buying that ice cream on sale at Ralph’s—smart move saving the extra dollar by clipping that coupon!
Your latest podcast episode in which you juxtaposed the excitement of humanity’s greatest period of technological advancement ever against the strong dystopian undercurrent of resource depletion really got me thinking:
We sell white-label marketing services to marketing firms like yours, and I was wondering if…
The hierarchy of AI hype:
Trillionaires: Holy crap! AI can build me a perpetual money machine!
Billionaires: Holy crap! Look what AI can do for my company!
Millionaires: Holy crap! Look what I can build with AI that I couldn’t have before!
Enthusiasts: Holy crap! Look what I can do with AI!
The Environment: Holy crap! Where did all my resources go?
What to do with all these damn SaaS subscriptions?
Like tiny little bank-account-draining demons, the dozens of software subscriptions we all have chip away at us over time.
But here’s a secret:
Try to cancel as many of them as you can name today, and many will say “WAIT DON’T GO! HOW ABOUT 80% OFF FOR THE NEXT 3 MONTHS INSTEAD?”
Set a calendar reminder, and take the discount, saving you a bunch for the next several months.
Not enough for you?
Cancel 5 of them right now.
You’ll feel better.
It’s not about the code
…it’s about a way of seeing the world.
It’s not about the programming language or the specific tools.
It’s about solving problems.
If you can solve a problem, it doesn’t matter how you do it.
The trick is to notice
…all the tiny thorns in your side.
The little mosquito bites, easy to ignore, chipping away at your productivity.
Do you keep track of all the things you do over and over again?
If something’s given you repetitive stress, it’s a candidate for automation.
Do you ever behave like a robot in some part of your work?
Do you ever do the same thing over and over again, even if it’s a couple of minutes a day?
These are the things you can probably automate right now with AI and claim some small part of your sanity back.
