Category: Generative AI
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Prompting like a boss
Yesterday, I did a workshop to help a company’s product and design team improve their productivity by learning how to prompt better. I’m not sure if I can share the workshop recording, so I’ll double check before I do. Till then I want to share this one slide. It captured everything I was trying to…
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A ChatGPT workflow for repurposing content
Want to put more energy into your blog this year? Maybe even figure out how to use AI to help create and distribute your content. AI is fantastic for repurposing content, but rubbish at creating new content. This post will explain why…and exactly how to start repurposing your own content. Last October, I started a…
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Creating community profiles to target your repurposing efforts
My content repurposing workflow has 7 steps: Separate a piece of content into each of the core ideas it is composed of. Summarize the piece of content in about 300-500 words by focusing on one of the core ideas. This summary usually serves as the foundation for a newsletter like this one. Create a headline…
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ChatGPT Not Cooperating? Try Tipping it
A few days ago, Theia Vogel shared a Twitter thread about tipping ChatGPT. She found that offering a tip led to better responses. A $20 tip got better results than no tip, and a $200 tip was even better. https://twitter.com/voooooogel/status/1730726744314069190 In this case, ‘better’ meant a longer response. Theia’s justification here is that the additional…
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The Importance of Separating Fact from Opinion in Writing
In a recent conversation with David Perell1, investor Chamath Palihapitiya talked about his perspective on what makes good writing good. His argument was that good writing should make it clear when something is fact or opinion. The conversation touches on the importance of demarcating objectivity and subjectivity in writing. The value of being able to…