Heyooooo! How we doin’ this week, creator peeps?

Our community has grown significantly over the last few weeks, so thank you to all those who are new subscribers to the newsletter, I appreciate you being here and joining our incredible community of creator nerds and professionals alike!

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Today’s issue will be slightly different than issues past, particularly in our ‘Create’ section, where I interviewed an incredible YouTuber, Sam Dawson! We dive in and chat all about his journey, trajectory, and learnings as he has become a full-time creator.

Let me know what you readers think of this extended spotlight coverage & in-depth interview! If you peeps are fans, we can make this a regular thing and I can even interview some of you readers to introduce you to the rest of the Cmd+Shift+Create community! So excited to hear everyone’s thoughts, it’s been my favorite creator spotlight in a while!

But enough of my babbling, let’s jump into the latest in this week’s creator news.

SIKE! You know I gotta drop a puppy pic, I mean come on now. This lil’ dude is gonna be home in a few weeks!

Ok, ok, NOW we can jump into the news!

Command & Create Merge! 🤝 

As mentioned, this week I did a super in-depth interview with the incredibly talented and inspiring creator, Sam Dawson! As Sam is absolutely commanding his creator career, I decided to merge the Command and Create sections of today’s newsletter!

So keep reading, and be sure to dig deep into my interview with Sam. There’s some incredible insight in here for you readers who are making (or thinking about making) the transition to being full-time content creators! 😎 

EU Cracks Down on AI 🤖 

It’s no secret that AI is shaking up the creator space. With the rise in programs like Sora (send help LOL), AI editing tools, writing tools, and beyond; setting some laws and restrictions on the rapidly accelerating market seems like a solid move.

Of course, we can leave it to the EU to implement some of these laws first. These laws are trying to stunt the growth of these AI tools and prevent “high-risk” tools from hitting the market without regulation. Let’s jump into the deets: