Rob Power
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Rob Power
@mrrobpower
Beatlemaniac. Books, art, music.



I’m happy to see a publisher pull an AI-generated book. I hope it has a chilling effect on people trying to sell AI slop. If you can’t be bothered to write it, we can’t be bothered to read it. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…


There's a hidden tax on every knowledge worker in the world, and nobody talks about it: The design tax. You're a strategist, a sales lead, a marketer. You were hired for what you know. But every meeting, every pitch, every proposal expects you to show up with something that looks like a designer made it. I lived this. Before Gamma, I spent time in consulting and investment banking. I spent more hours formatting slides than the analysis that went into them. When my cofounders and I started Gamma, we asked: what if you never had to be a designer in the first place? Five years and nearly 100 million users later, we've refunded billions of hours of the design tax. Today, we're eliminating it for good with our biggest launch ever. Gamma Imagine — a powerful, AI-native visual creation tool directly in Gamma. Posters, logos, infographics, visuals from a single prompt. On brand, every time. AI-Native Templates. Templates were supposed to save you from design work. Instead you spent the time filling them in. So we completely rebuilt the template experience. Modify a whole deck with a single prompt, with your brand and style intact every time. Gamma Connectors. You're already thinking in ChatGPT and Claude. Now Gamma sits inside the most popular work apps in the world. No more context-switching. You were hired for your ideas, not to resize text boxes. Let Gamma pay the design tax.


Lots of comments about how to remake the film industry--and a lot of "build back better" type talk. Sorry you have to hear it from me, but film as a dominant cultural force is never coming back. But it's not going to go away either. It's going to stick around. Just like opera stuck around. At one time opera was mass entertainment. And then it faded and was replaced by other forms of mass entertainment--like movies. Today opera is a niche thing--reserved for the wealthy. But it still happens. Old operas are still being performed, and once in a while someone even writes a completely original opera. I think we can expect something similar from film. Niche film theaters will play old movies, and once in a while will play something new. But the days of everyone going to the movies on a Saturday night (or even streaming at home) is over. The new films won't be made for a mass audience--not like The Matrix or Starwars or Lord of the Rings or any of the other movies you love--because that mass audience is gone. And it's never coming back. Instead films will be made for a niche audience. And we're already there now. Marvel movies are made for a niche audience of beard neck fanboys, and Oscar bait movies are made for the NPR totebag and Volvo niche. What's going to take film's place? I have no idea. If I had to make a bet on the future of mass entertainment I'd go with anything live and in person. The faker (and gayer) the world gets, the more people will want authenticity. Stand up comedy is enjoying a resurgence--partly for this reason. As far as digital content goes, maybe it'll be gaming, or maybe vertical drama type shows. But who the fuck knows. It will probably be something that doesn't currently exist. But again, film will never go away entirely. Somewhere there are opera companies producing operas, Shakespeare festivals still happen, Greek plays still happen, and somewhere in the world somebody is putting on a Punch and Judy show. So film fans, don't despair. They'll be something for you. It might not be great, but it will be there. And I guess that's better than nothing🤷♂️ (Credit to my friend @DisgracedProp for the film/opera insight.)


Eyewitness books





#nw One Battle After Another (4th Viewing) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

It's the most important war comic of all time: we're only one month away from our release of the Charley's War APEX Edition, collecting Joe Colquhoun's stunning artwork as never seen before! bit.ly/4iP3sdU

POV: you went back in time. Puy du Fou in France is one of the most unique theme parks. Founded in 1978, repeatedly voted best theme park in the world, with epic shows: Viking invasions, Roman gladiator battles, medieval tournaments, and French Renaissance stories.


He always wanna be different huh. Boy get back in the line


















