Ben's List

Ben Costantini
Ben Costantini
Ben's List

Your weekly dose of business insights with 10 articles, 1 video and 2 tools. Community, newsletters, neuroscience, music, fintech, event production and SEO are among the topics covered.

I like to call this post a look inside my brain, but it's almost a week old already...

Apparently, I'm sharing around 5 articles per day with our team and more than 10 articles per day with myself. But I'm trying to recover from this knowledge addiction and turn collection into creation.

Do you do this as well? Saving articles for later reading? What's your preferred tool? Pocket, Flipboard or Raindrop? I must confess I end up sending tons of articles to myself for later consumption 😳

As is my obsession these days, I've come across a number of awesome community and newsletter related resources. And just to keep things a balanced; music, neuroscience, synthetic media, FinTech and event production.

Strategy

Jack Butcher, founder of  VisualizeValue walks out through his thoughts and process of finding people you can help, and building products that help them.

Ideas -> People -> Product.

Business

What does it mean to be a creator? How do you define it?

"As the world discovered that more American kids wanted to become YouTubers than astronauts and that Kylie Jenner became the world's youngest billionaire, the term "creator" entered a pivotal moment."

The Definition of a Creator
As “Creators” became the word to define a whole new generation of internet explorers, I asked myself what a creator really is. And I came up with a definition.

Community

The National Geographic of the Digital Age

Now on their tenth year in existence, Atlas Obscura has become the National Geographic of the digital age. But how did they get there? Get Together has a look at the community surrounding the platform, and how it came to be.

“The National Geographic of the digital age”
A deep dive into the history of Atlas Obscura and the community fueling it.

Lean Community Launch Framework

Community isn’t just another word for audience. It’s a special space you create for your most engaged members to gather and interact.
How to Launch an Online Community — Lean Community Launch Framework
This is your Community, Daily.

Community is dead, long live community!

Community is a trend. Community is not a trend.
Community is about people and conversations
Community fatigue is a real thing
Subscriptions are great for the business
Communities subscriptions actually get complicated
Community is dead, long live community?

Community is dead, long live community!
Some current thoughts on the state of building communities and businesses

Marketing

The SaaS SEO MBA

Ever wish you have a definitive list of all things SEO for SaaS? Well, now you do.

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Media

Samsung Next | The ethics and commercial potential of synthetic media

Samsung NEXT Ventures Europe's Nick Nigam weighs in on the rapid growth of synthetic media.

"The number of people working to develop convincing fakes outnumbers those working to detect them by a factor of 100 to 1." - Hany Fareed, computer science professor, University of California Berkeley School of Information
The ethics and commercial potential of synthetic media
Breadcrumbs list

FinTech

Educating Electeds - AVC

A strong example of what can happen when politics get in the way of progress. Particularly for those that elected officials are meant to be looking out for.

Educating Electeds

Event Production

Lessons Learned From My First Experience of Pre-recorded Talk

Wahib Haq, EU Lead Partner Engineering at Huawei systematically breaks down his experience with his pre-recorded talk and provides practical examples of what to do and what not to do.

Important Lessons Learned From My First Experience of Pre-recorded Talk
Sharing learnings from my frist experience of Pre-recording multiple talks for Huawei’s largest conference “HDC.2020” and could be useful for developers, devrel folks or anyone who gets an opportunity.

Music

Has your workflow changed in any way due to quarantine?

You're not alone. Check out Channel Tres' thoughts on taking your time, creating from a healthy place, the best kind of collaborations, and why sometimes the journey is more exciting than the goal itself.

On being yourself
Singer and producer Channel Tres on taking your time, creating from a healthy place, the best kind of collaborations, and why sometimes the journey is more exciting than the goal itself.

Neuroscience

Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind

"Maybe instead of considering a default state and a myriad of altered states, we need to contemplate the possibility that all these states of consciousness are all equally important modes of perception."
Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind

Tools

The Hemingway App for SEO

With typewipe. your write relevant content that ranks with the power of A.I.

Think your SEO skills are good? Check them against typewipe before hitting publish.

Free SEO Writing Assistant - typewipe.
With typewipe. your write relevant content that ranks with the power of A.I.

Newsletter OS - Master the art of creating & running a newsletter

I'm always on the lookout for tools to help things grow bigger, faster, and stronger. This one looks quite promising.

Newsletter OS
Everything you need to curate, write and grow your newsletter in a Notion dashboard


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