Hello, wonderful people.
Two signals this week
1) Bloomberg opens its terminal data to AI
The announcement caused notable ripples. FactSet shares dropped 8.1% on the news, Morningstar reversed its gains and fell over 3% — a signal that markets are pricing in real disruption to financial data intermediaries. There are also wider concerns about entry-level finance jobs (analyst roles focused on research, data pulling, and deck-building) becoming redundant. The value of the terminal itself becomes a harder question to answer.
2) Grok launches creative workflow templates
There are four preset templates built into the workflow: Create Worlds, Short Film, UGC Product Stories, and Brand Identity.
For founders building campaigns, testing creative concepts, building short films or curating brand content, this reduces the time and effort spent to see the first idea to life.
We worked on a demo energy drink brand for founders, shared with some brief description and 3 product images, in turn Grok built full fledged product photos, model photos and ad videos from the same within minutes.
Two tools this week
1) Napkin AI
The core idea of Napkin AI is simple — paste in any text, and it generates a visual representation of it: a framework, a diagram, a flow, that you can drop straight into a deck or document.
If you are building proposals, presentations, or any kind of structured visual content without a design background, this helps you to represent anything using interesting diagrams.
We recently tried out the new effects feature to curate various styles showcasing the evolution of AI. All we did was pasted a simple para description, and this was the outcome.
2) Whisperflow
Whisperflow is a voice-to-text tool that works across your entire device. WhatsApp, notes, emails, AI prompts — wherever your cursor sits, you hold a button, speak, and it types for you.
Before you try it, check-in first incase your phone’s built-in dictation already gets the job done for you. For a lot of people, it does, and there is no reason to switch.
But if you are someone who dictates long AI prompts / messages on the go, finds native voice tools cutting off or misreading you, or just wants cleaner accuracy across every platform at once — Whisperflow is the one to try.
One human touch
Remember first time you go back to the gym or simply move your body after a long break?
You begin feeling like yourself. Same person. Same body.
But somewhere in the first twenty, thirty, forty minutes, reality catches up. The breath runs shorter. The movement you assumed was still there, isn’t quite. And the next two days, the body aches in places you had completely forgotten.
Why? Because you stopped showing up. And slowly, quietly, the capacity faded.
This is not just about the body.
The moment you stop practicing, stop questioning, stop putting yourself in situations that stretch you — your strengths start to dull. The ability to think sharper. The ability to adapt through new, uncomfortable situations. The ability to grow. It becomes a long lost memory you haven’t visited in a while. This brings us to today’s topic —
Learning.
Each one of us have our own strengths. Things we are genuinely good at, passionate about. But even those, without practice, without showing up, without learning every day, start to fade. Until one day it’s no longer relevant as your skill.
So keep learning. Keep growing. Keep showing up even on the days it feels unnecessary.
Especially on those days.
That is all we had to share for this edition.
Build systems that remember. Use tools that move. Keep a voice that still feels alive.
We will be back soon with simple signals & thoughts to build The Human Layer.
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Thoughts by Ajay Binani · Words by Poulomi Ghosh