{•̃_•̃} Nº91 Can't Use Droids to Fill the Voids 🤖 🖥

Its been a busy week back in Holland after last week’s Swiss trip. (Peek these recaps by John & Elena) And I’m still playing catch up as today is Amsterdam’s biggest Tech Conference: The Next Web

As I scramble to ship this (late, I know) issue, wrap up my inbox & head to the conference, I’m using my regular quiver of tools to set reminders of emails to followup with, schedule social media posts & my colleagues are using automation software to ship pitches & outreach emails for clients. Increasingly, automation, AI & bots 🤖 help our small team make an ever bigger impact.

With meetings this morning + this afternoon I’ll only be at The Next Web for a few hours today & hopefully more tomorrow.  Like I do with many shows, I use tools like Twitfox to autofave tweets & Statusbrew to invite new followers to subscribe to this newsletter. Often when I hand someone a Twotone Amsterdam sticker, they recognize the logo from social media & maybe already subscribe. But do I have to be there to have that face-to-face exchange.

My point? All these tools are great but the rise of AI makes human intelligence more valuable than ever. I’m a big proponent of clever tools and apps to help you do more but remember: you can’t use droids to fill all the voids. {•̃_•̃}

As always, thank you for reading!

with appreciation,

Jon

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