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Happy Friday Monday, OGC! I hope your weekend was filled with 🌭🍉🎆🍔🌽❤️
You’re receiving this because you’re an active member of our OGC community. These bi-weekly digests are designed to help you find the most interesting and high-value member threads from the past two weeks, and to highlight upcoming events and open roles ❤️
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The list
The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.
Member recs: These extra comfy loafers for workwear, this flower delivery company with a charitable donation component, this gpt/claude alternative that takes action for you, this marketplace of wellness retreats where you can find your next getaway, these heels to get you through your longest event without blisters, this logic game for ages 5+, these small batch candles with matching playlists, this mic to uplevel your zoom audio game, these active gaming facilities where you can play games and be active with family or friends, these safe for sensitive skin pads for removing dead skin from your face, this newsletter for creatives.
Some resources: This free, on-demand webinar on navigating screens and social media with kids, this CSR and social impact resource guide, this tool for ai-powered research and study review with a generous free tier, this blog full of insights and resources on UX research, these free resources for freelancers, this article on how people are using LLMs for support, advice and companionship, this database of AI tools, their pricing and their use cases, this spreadsheet of angel investing networks and groups.
A good read: ‘AI is homogenizing our thoughts’ by Kyle Chayka
A.I. is a technology of averages: large language models are trained to spot patterns across vast tracts of data; the answers they produce tend toward consensus, both in the quality of the writing, which is often riddled with clichés and banalities, and in the calibre of the ideas. Other, older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers, of course—one could say the same about, say, SparkNotes or a computer keyboard. But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too.
OpenAI has a certain incentive to shave the edges off our attitudes and communication styles, because the more people find the models’ output acceptable, the broader the swath of humanity it can convert to paying subscribers. Averageness is efficient: “You have economies of scale if everything is the same,” Vara said.
Max Kreminski, who helped carry out the analysis and now works with the generative-A.I. startup Midjourney, told me that when people use A.I. in the creative process they tend to gradually cede their original thinking. At first, users tend to present their own wide range of ideas, Kreminski explained, but as ChatGPT continues to instantly spit out high volumes of acceptable-looking text users tend to go into a “curationist mode.”
A newsletter or podcast rec: Life Letters by Nadia Meli
From a woman becoming herself.
Hot threads
Upcoming events
The full calendar can be found here.
We’re now accepting proposals to host sessions during the summer!
Submit yours here - we’re especially looking for folks to teach specific skills in a ‘How-to’ format.
Virtual sessions
How to: Co-create with customers [rsvp]
How to: Build a great virtual contractor team [rsvp]
AI 101 + Hands on agent building [rsvp]
How to: Create connection-first events [rsvp]
How to: Define your career values and priorities [rsvp]
How to: Manage and reduce procrastination [rsvp]
How to: Think about naming and branding a product [rsvp]
B Corp 101: Using business for good [rsvp]
How to: Design a magical, scalable membership [rsvp]
Startup legal survival guide [rsvp]
How to: Work with your cycle [rsvp]
Virtual social and networking events
Virtual member salons (casual group chats w/ other members)
Consultants monthly call
New OGC member onboarding (or an OGC refresh for existing members!)
Job seekers support group calls
IRL Gatherings
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Open roles w/ warm member intros available
If you’d like to hire from OGC, share your open roles using this form!
Details on how to best apply for these roles can be found on the OGC job board here.
Membership Services Manager @ Let It Break [JD]
Senior Retention Marketing Manager@ Rhode [JD]
Growth Marketing Manager @ Rhode [JD]
Marketing Specialist (B2B) @ Prescient AI [JD]
Product Marketing Manager @ Prescient AI [JD]
Member Growth Lead @ Sunfish [JD]
$90k - $120k
Brand & Marketing Manager @ Leilo [JD]
Prospect Research Manager @ Unite America [JD]
Head of Marketing @ Clevr [JD]
Senior Pricing Analyst @ Upgrade [JD]
Marketing Manager @ Upgrade [JD]
VP of Marketing @ Reeco (reeco.com)
Growth Lead @ Founders Pledge [JD]
$140k
VC Analyst @ Thomson Reuters Ventures [JD]
Chief of staff @ Kidsy [JD]
AI Strategist @ TextQL
Senior Manager, Performance Marketing @ Archive [JD]
Email Marketing Associate @ Lonely Planet [JD]
Sr. Sales Executive @ Parento [JD]
Director, Brand Strategy – Private Brands Macy's
$190k
Director of Strategic Communications @ Work For America [JD]
$145k
Growth Marketing Lead @ Copilot Money [JD]
$135k - $180k
Director, Product Management @ Salvo Health [JD]
$165k - $190k
Lead Graphic Designer @ SmartAC.com
Staff Software Engineer @ Wander [JD]
Flexible Account Executive @ Offsite [JD[
Content & Membership Manager @ Dreamers & Doers [JD]
$80k - $95k
Lead Engineer @ Relevant [JD]
$165k - $190k
Lead Software Engineer @ Summer [JD]
$150 - $170k
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These roundups are to help you stay up to date and to make slack more manageable. Always open to ideas and feedback! Have a wonderful week.
❤️ Mallory & the OGC team