Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 😮 New newsletter look. Thoughts?

• 📊 An AI app to try—Rows

• 📰 The latest AI news

• 🤖 Cool new AI apps for you to check out

• 🖥️ Make Apple-level wave backgrounds with Midjourney

• 💪🏼 Getting the right people matters

(Read time: five minutes)

Some friends’ newsletters inspired me, so I played with a new design for Bagel Bots. What do you think?

As we grow quickly, I want this to be easier to consume and make it more of a standard thing for you. If I am missing something, please respond and let me know. This is fun; I want it to be great.

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My new fave.

📊 My new favorite AI app - Rows

In another life, I was a data analyst. I was pouring through data in Adobe Analytics and creating endless tables and reports. It was a fantastic gig with LasVegas.com, and I miss everyone there dearly.

Data is annoying and time-consuming, and I have been waiting for AI to take over.

I love Rows. You can paste your table data into the app and then ask a ChatGPT-like query bar for anything you want about the data. It gives you the answer instantly. No more writing insane formulas; it just does it.

Here is the test data:

Here is me asking about the average sessions in Row A:

On the right, it gives me the answer instantly. You can see below that it automatically recommends deep dives. It also writes complex formulas and allows you to paste and run them.

This is awesome, and you need to try it out.

🔗 You can access the website and try it for free here.

The news you need.

🚨 Interesting AI and tech news from the last few days

AI news is flying faster and faster. These are the most significant things you need to know:

• 🔗 So programmers will build the machine that ends their careers? Savage. Stability AI CEO: There Will Be No (Human) Programmers in Five Years. Read more here.

• 🔗 The wearable shakeup is needed, and it will be spectacular. Humane reveals the name of first device, the Humane Ai Pin. Read more here.

• 🔗 This is actually really cool. The AI trained to recognize waste for recycling. Read more here.

• 🔗 This seems obvious, but now it’s Privacy & Terms official. Google will use it to train their AI if it's on the internet. Read more here.

• 🔗 There are no two ways about it; work will never be the same again. AI and the automation of work. Read more here.

Fresh apps to test.

🤖 AI apps for you to check out this week

Every one of these apps can help you with your company, career, side hustle, or personal project. I recommend diving deep into them all.

• 🔗 Luminaries - World-class coaching powered by AI

• 🔗 Leadspicker - Search the depths of the internet to identify cutting-edge solutions yet undiscovered

• 🔗 Paste - Paste is a new way to keep, search, and organize everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

• 🔗 Wondercraft AI - Turn existing content into captivating podcasts, effortlessly

• 🔗 SaneBox - SaneBox's AI identifies important emails and automatically organizes the rest to help you stay focused.

Check these fantastic platforms out, and let me know what you think. Reply to this email or tweet me directly.

My tip of the day.

🖥️ Make Apple-level wave backgrounds with Midjourney.

I love the wavy desktop backgrounds that come with Apple OS, and I use the inspiration on dozens of projects I work on. Even at my company, we use these “blob backgrounds” (as we call them) on our website and social media posts.

Now, you can make your own in Midjourney.

Prompts:

macOS desktop background style, colorful waves vector, flat, shades of blue and purple, bright, flowing --ar 16:9 --s 750 --q 2 --v 5.2

You can also change the colors within the prompt:

macOS desktop background style, colorful waves vector, flat, shades of green and teal, bright, flowing --ar 16:9 --s 750 --q 2 --v 5.2

You can also change up the prompt to have more of a minimalistic, simple background (I like these more, but the wavy stuff above gets people excited). Be sure to change colors and scenery in the prompt below.

Minimilistic design with light blue and peach for a mac desktop wallpaper, mountains with clouds in the sky --ar 16:9

Do not forget to upscale these images with Nightmare AI.

Free inspiration.

💪🏼 Getting the right people matters.

Early in my career, I genuinely thought I could turn every C player into a B player and every B player into an A player.

After two successful exits and 8+ years of being a CEO, I can tell you I was wrong. Getting the right people matters quite a bit. I focus less on the resume and more on intangibles like caring, being motivated and caring about the work they’re doing.

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