I let copilot add onto this framework and liked it:
Detective's Hat
The detective's hat is all about investigation and debugging. When you put on this hat, you're diving deep into the code to find the root cause of a bug or issue. This involves a lot of patience, attention to detail, and sometimes a bit of intuition. You might use tools like debuggers, log analyzers, and performance profilers to track down elusive problems.
Architect's Hat
The architect's hat is for designing systems and thinking about the big picture. With this hat on, you're considering how different components of the system interact, scalability, maintainability, and future growth. This involves creating diagrams, writing design documents, and making decisions that will impact the project long-term.
Gardener's Hat
The gardener's hat is about nurturing and maintaining code. This involves refactoring, cleaning up technical debt, and ensuring that the codebase remains healthy and manageable over time. It's about pruning unnecessary parts and fostering good practices so that the code can grow sustainably.
Scientist's Hat
The scientist's hat is for experimentation and research. When you wear this hat, you're exploring new technologies, trying out different algorithms, or conducting performance benchmarks. It's about being curious and methodical in your approach to discovering new solutions.
Librarian's Hat
The librarian's hat is focused on documentation and knowledge sharing. With this hat on, you're writing clear documentation, creating tutorials, and ensuring that information is easily accessible to others. This helps in building a knowledge base that can be referred to by team members or the wider community.
Diplomat's Hat
The diplomat's hat is for collaboration and communication. When you wear this hat, you're working with other teams, stakeholders, or clients to understand their needs and ensure that everyone is on the same page. It's about negotiating requirements, managing expectations, and fostering a collaborative environment.
This is cool! I’ve had it on my back burner to recreate the fun of StumbleUpon, but make it a TikTok copycat UI. I planned to go back and feed it with years of HN links. This is basically it!
I feel like one could turn this into a traveling, interactive, VR/AR type of experience. Enter a room with old sites projected onto the walls. Get hit over the head with fun 90s/00s nostalgia, showcase notable tech from the era, etc.
Adobe had some clause where they could train AI based on your creative, effectively building a model that can ultimately plagiarize your work. No AI is a nice appeal in this context. That and it being simple, fully offline, not at the whims of execs trying to bump their share price with AI features that put the user second.
Yes, but 1) it's unnecessary conjecture when the facts already make them look bad, and 2) it's not the limit of what they could actually do - their TOS says (IIRC) "as long as it's for the purpose of improving our software, we can use anything you make". So they could use peoples' drawn art directly, for splash screens, or even, (speculation) offer it as a template/stock material for anyone who pays them for it.
Marketing is just dominoes falling. The first domino is reach, then attention, then it hits interest, then research, then desire, then purchase, then onboarding, then retention, then advocacy. Fill in these blanks depending on your biz model.
Ads, sadly, do work. You might live your life never thinking about Brazil nuts. I hit you with an ad for DeezBrazilNuts™. Whether you wanted to store this information in your head rent free or not doesn’t matter. Right now you are indeed familiar with the DeezBrazilNuts brand. If I showed you 10 Brazil Nut brands on a sheet of paper, mine would stand out and be familiar.
Sadly, the ad worked. I don’t need you to go out and buy the nuts right away. But the marketing dominoes are now falling.
With this in mind, it’s all funnels and dominoes. Mass reach wins and gets the dominoes tipping. Media is the perfect way to get that first domino: mass reach. You have people sitting with attention clued in. You have their eyes and ears. It’s too perfect.
I would say the one remedy to this is a substack model. Subscriptions are the antidote. This is obviously already happening with Netflix, Max, and all the ad-free streaming services. Same with Spotify, etc. News is the last industry, and will occur with X, Substack, and the like.