#76 - Notes on Open Art, Reading Lists and Goodpods
Education Coffee is a Newsletter on People, Ideas and Culture
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1. Learning from People
Bhavish Aggarwal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ola Consumer, founder of Ola Electric and founder of OlaKrutrim, a large language model artificial intelligence (AI) company. He chats with Vani Kola about his vision for his companies and the role of India in the global economy. I am inspired by his thinking and approach to solve problems.
2. Learning from Ideas and Questions
I created this image using the free Dall.E and open art AI software. My prompt was a 30 year old writer at his computer by his window on a rainy day. I love this image and now have decided to his OpenArt Ai for most of my upcoming posts.
3. Learning from Books, Websites and Blogs
I love lists. Whenever I meet someone I often wonder what books, podcasts, films, videos and websites they loved and would recommend. Here is one such list on book recommendations by Ryan Holiday (author) that I came across on the internet.
Link to List - Books to Base Your Life On by Ryan Holiday
4. Learning from Films, Videos and Shows
Letterboxd is a social platform for sharing your taste in film. I actively and regularly use this app. Here is a glimpse of some of the films I have watched on the app at this link. I love how the focus is on the film posters in this section and it creates this beautiful visual when it all comes together.
5. Learning from Podcasts and Music
I was on the lookout for a website that allows me to archive my podcast listening experience. I always felt that it was hard to comment on and archive my favourite podcast episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. I feel like these platforms are biased towards general reviews about the entire podcast rather than each episode. I was looking for a website like Goodreads (for books) and Letterboxd (for films) where I could share my thoughts on each episode. I was so frustrated that I decided to attempt to create my own platform called Podshare to solve this problem. Here is a logo and the web link for the same.
But then I came across Goodpods. It is a free podcast player and discovery app. to listen to, discover, and share all your favourite podcast episodes and podcast shows. I think it is like a social media platform for podcast lovers and that is its unique unique selling point. Here is a review of the application by Krstal Profitt about how to use the app and how it gives you a better listening experience than other streaming platforms. It has solved my problem to an extent but I still have features I want as a listener that I hope to bring to life in Podshare.
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Abhishek Shetty