Show notes

🎙️ In This Episode of Joe Reads the News: Madeleine Merced dominates the airwaves alongside Joe’s nice robot 🤖

Key Points

• Madeleine Merced from the Greater Chicago area with 6,939 followers wins this week’s Algo Rhythm Award for her post titled “You are doing LinkedIn wrong” which offers a free 92-second quiz to help businesses get online.
• Hertz is implementing AI-based scanners across the US to detect rental car damage, which could add extra fees to the inspection process and eliminate the ability for customers to hide minor dings.
• Rental car insurance costs have significantly increased from approximately $20 per day to $50-60 per day, making the AI damage detection system more concerning for customers.
• Mark Zerr shares his experience at Wine with Wooly Yaks ranch and winery in Arcadia, Indiana, Hamilton County, which features sustainable agriculture, pecan and walnut orchards, and friendly animals including yaks, sheep, pigs, and chickens.
• Madeleine Merced creates a series called “LinkedIn Inception” that provides tutorials for creating LinkedIn content, specifically demonstrating how to create 10 LinkedIn carousels in under 90 seconds using Canva.
• Anya reveals that Excel spreadsheets can be connected to Canva for carousel creation, which was previously unknown to many participants.
• Jamie Sunderland has heated nerd debate with Nico about AI prototyping tools like Lovable and Replit, noting that product managers in a recent survey were not using these tools, possibly due to organizational uncertainty about AI workflow integration.
• Founder hair is defined as long, luscious hair that represents an unfussy, slightly chaotic, lived-in aesthetic achieved through minimal products like sea salt spray, contrasting with overly polished appearances.
• Gusto, with 139,000 followers, promotes AI implementation strategies for small businesses through their HR and payroll platform, offering a data-driven guide to start, scale, and succeed with AI.
• Joe schedules a Costco tire appointment (yes, seriously) under his full name Joseph, which initially caused confusion during the phone confirmation call.
• Ben Cole presents Feature Friday Episode 7 about automated vendor remittance in BC, addressing pain points like manual processes, missed emails, and lack of tracking history.
• LinkedIn’s save feature gets exposed