AudioPen - from fuzzy thought to clear text. Fast

E99: RFP; Meet Louis Pereira

Let’s keep this edition light but nutritional, sandwiched between last week’s Rest recap edition, and next week’s 100th edition.

This week:

• Request for Participation: “Has this essay/newsletter helped Tilt the Future in your favour?” Please DM me a sentence

• Meet a Member: Louis Pereira inventor of AudioPen.ai

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RFP: Request for Participation in Edition 100

100th edition. Should we mark it, or is it just another number? DM with suggestions.

James Bailey

(

On Money and Meaning

) was quick to respond, and has already sent me a DM:

I wanted to say that I think you SHOULD celebrate your 100th edition. That’s a big milestone AND, celebrating and acknowledging IS important. Maybe ask your readers for one sentence to describe your impact on us. So WE can participate with our gratitude. 😁

Scott Gilbertson

(if you want a 5-min postcard follow

Spirited Travelers

) was similarly enthusiastic: “ABSOLUTELY celebrate your 100th issue! If this were a sitcom, it would then be eligible for syndication and you'd be rolling in the dough.” Who knew?!

No obligation. But I’d love to include comments from our community, our Tribe Tilt. Someone pointedly asked me “How does this essay help Tilt the Future?” around edition 9! That sits on a post-it in front of me when I write. So, any of:

• Has this newsletter/essay helped Tilt the Future in your favour?

• Favourite essay, phrase or topic

• How do you feel after reading one of my newsletters?

Thank you, in advance!

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Meet a member: Louis Pereira, inventor of AudioPen

Louis is another member of Tribe Tilt that I met through Write of Passage (WoP9) last year. I knew he would make this list after our very first interaction:

• He is constantly thinking about making life simpler and easier

• His mind ticks over at a million ideas per minute

• He is not afraid to experiment, to build and fail in public

That last point is especially endearing — it typifies the qualities of the Explorer Generation - the mindset that we are going to need as we transition to a new Era of work.

I love this kid! Full disclosure, he is also Goan, living 5 miles away from my home village, so yet another reason I’ve been keeping a proud eye on his antics. I watch his progress with a mix of local pride and intense interest.

As we spoke, I was intrigued to find that he didn’t code for his degree or day job. In fact, his days are filled with a very high-human touchpoint - he helps run his family business of restaurants, hotels and supermarkets around North Goa.

But when he gets home, he plays! With ideas. (How can you not love this guy?) He is fixated on making things easier and interesting. And he builds in public. Good, bad or ugly, he shares the journey with his cohort on Twitter.

He tapped into this community that also likes experimenting. And he started hosting free hackathons. He set up a Discord server and invited anyone interested to spend the next 12 hours with him. “I tell people the goal is to make a dollar in 12 hours. Build something. Set it out like into the world and see if you can create enough value for people to give you a dollar in 12 hours. Because I feel like that's a hurdle. Once you break that hurdle, it becomes easier.” [Me included].

One of the first ideas he came up with was drop-shipping mugs with personalized GIFs. And he did well … until the customs started snagging his product in different places. He moved up and on.

He experimented. Nicheless and ReadSomethingGreat are my two personal favourites

Then, on his most recent hackathon, he created AudioPen. To say it has “taken off” is an understatement. People talk about it in the same breath as ChatGPT. During the hackathon he offered a lifetime subscription at some ridiculous price. I got it in on the ground floor …

To me, it is Otter.ai marries ChatGPT. There are people who now rely on this product.

I’m sure you are going to want to know more. Listen in to this conversation where fellow Tribe member

Monica Lim

interviewed Louis, about AudioPen.

AudioPen

What is it about this product that has captured the imagination?

1. It launched in March in the wake of ChatGPT. It summarizes your text (slider scale 75-25% shorter, in the voice of … Shakespeare, Naval Ravikant, …)

2. Louis has enabled you to tape audio in one language and deliver a translated coherent product in another

3. Louis has made it easy. There is so much flexibility in the tool. And his customer service shines through.

Use case: I set up a free account for my mother whose Parkinson’s is progressing. She is an office administrator who loathes sending out emails with bad grammar and typos. So we used AudioPen to record her message to her brother for his 90th birthday. She reviewed and edited the copy. AudioPen had handled 80% of her frustration with mis-typed letters (from her shaky hand). She was better able to cope with the 20% tweaking to make it “hers”. Then she copy/pasted it to email. It took such a load of her shoulders. She represented the better side of herself. It gave me such joy and peace to see how this simple AI tool had augmented her life and communication ability.

If you have Twitter, search on AudioPen. There is someone who is writing SciFi. An 11-year-old who is using it to explain the benefits of hanging out at his father’s office. One person is using it to record his dream journal.

This is how I have been using it … to take my written content and use it as a first level editor ..

I don’t use it to create content, but to clean up and summarize my ramblings …

Full disclosure - here is my ambassador link - because I really believe in this product.

https://audiopen.ai/?aff=MORD9 and when you get there, click on testimonials if you need further validation for your choice!

You can sign on for a free subscription that will support most people’s needs. 3 minutes of audio.

But if you upgrade to premium, then you can record in one language and have it return translated copy. You could have it respond “in your own voice”. You can export your text as Twitter, email or whatsapp messages.

Louis Pereira is much more complex than this quick profile, and I encourage you to learn more:

Twitter: Twitter - this is where Louis is most visible
Website: https://louispereira.xyz/
Products: AudioPen Nicheless
LinkedIn: LinkedIn

I ask each of my profiles to pick which of the 17 UN SDGs they resonate with. Because I feel this tracks closely with their life trajectory “what problem gets under your skin, or what interests you”. These were Louis’ picks.

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Member profiles:

For our many new Tilt Tribe members, welcome!

I often get to be a panel member talking to young students, teachers and school superintendents on the Future of Work. Invariably, the conversation turns to career choices. In my discussions with our Tribe members, I see such a spectrum of ages, professions, careers pivots.

I started profiling our diverse collection of Tribe members a year ago to showcase that we may start in one place, and by following our instincts and interests, end up in another. Or we may have a lifetime career in the field of our passions. Both work.

Previous profiles:

Louis Pereira, Inventor E99
Ishan Shanavas, Wildlife Photographer, soon-to-be author E89
Leo Ariel, Entrepreneur, World Traveller E81
Christin Chong, Chaplain & Kindness Camp E77
Terri Lonier, Solopreneur, Authority by Design E48
David Dvorkin, Edupreneur, Hire Cause E39
Sam Knowlton, Soil Agronomist E37
Kathy Karn, Wildlife Photographer E36
Karena de Souza, Future of Work strategist E35

Can I profile you next?

I look forward to our celebration, Tribe Tilt.

Till then, stay healthy. From there all else becomes possible.
Karena