🗞 What's New: The problem with OpenAI's new "canvas" feature

Here's what you'll find in this issue:

• OpenAI just launched Canvas, an interface that makes project collaboration easier. But there's a huge problem with this new feature.
• MrBeast's dramatic month isn't over yet. Right after he bought Vouch, a "LinkedIn for creators" platform, it was abruptly snatched offline.
• How do you know when to follow your passion vs. play it safe? Paul Graham's 4 categories can help you figure it out.
• $10K MRR from a suite of content businesses. Pete Codes quit his nightmare job after someone threatened to stab his boss, and hasn't looked back.

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Fresh off the largest VC round of all time, OpenAI is launching Canvas, an interface that makes ChatGPT a better project collaborator.

The new feature opens a separate window from the normal ChatGPT app that's specifically designed to collaborate with you on projects that involve writing, editing, and coding.

But getting widespread adoption of Canvas will likely be a challenge.

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MrBeast just bought a major jobs platform that creators use to fill niche content and marketing roles.

It's called Vouch, and it connects creators with thumbnail designers, content strategists, and other specialist candidates. Vouch, which claims to have matched 35K+ candidates with jobs, has ambitions of becoming a "LinkedIn for creators."

Or, at least it did, before it was abruptly yanked offline.

Paul Graham is back with another thought-provoking essay: “When To Do What You Love.”

Should you pursue the sure thing, or take the risk and chase your passion?

This question is nuanced, and Paul says it's impossible to answer with a simple yes or no.

So, he breaks the question down into several different categories.

Pete Codes had a nightmare job: Aggressive customers, rude staff, drunk people passing out, people doing drugs... the last straw was when a customer threatened to stab his boss. He quit that evening.

He then built No CS Degree, a content site about getting into tech with zero experience. Since then, he's branched out to newsletters, courses, a job board template, and services.

Here's how ghostwriting became his bread and butter.

Breaking things is cool too, but you have to make them first. —@csallen

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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Stephen Flanders, Darko Gjorgjievski, Katie Hignett, and James Fleischmann for contributing posts. —Channing