Kelly Huang

  • Action button

    iPhone 11 to iPhone 15 in an iPhone 17 era. That’s how late I am to the action button. Small trick that I did: create a task by voice. I use TickTick with its built-in voice-to-text. David Allen’s “Get Things Done” has one fundamental idea: capture everything. Sudden thoughts are extremely valuable. Quality doesn’t matter…

  • Learn to iterate. Not to learn.

    YouTube, LinkedIn — feed is full of techniques. Short videos. Popular keywords. New tools. But what attracts us and what we actually need are rarely the same thing. Iteration is hard because it requires pattern utilization. Then noticing what can be done to accelerate or amplify — that gap, a potential new pattern, is where…

  • Less is more

    We can delete context. And it’s a good thing. We were feeding formats, insights, regulations, guidelines, rules — all into markdowns for deliverables. Assumption: more context, better output. It didn’t work. Failed for 4 times. Many of us take what AI gives us for granted. Or we don’t drill deep enough to the absolute-must context.…

  • Good prompt vs. good context

    Some people prompt in Mandarin. Some in English. Standardizing the skill or language of prompting across a team takes time. It’s inefficient. So we standardized the context instead. Our PMM team built context as Markdown files — sales deck outlines, value proposition frameworks, positioning methodologies. Paired with product specs and briefing materials for multi-step output.…

  • AI Anxious

    I’m only on LinkedIn. One platform. And I’m already anxious. Every scroll brings a new technique, a new model, a new thing I haven’t tried yet. The feeling isn’t excitement. But here’s what I keep coming back to: the anxiety is pointing at the wrong thing. The question isn’t what’s new. It’s what does it…

  • Call it exaggeration, call it creativity

    I started with ChatGPT, but I switched for precise control and less exaggeration. In most of my work,precision is quality. Until I tried to add a lens glare to this upscaled image. ChatGPT nailed it in one prompt. If I think exaggeration as a bug, I disapprove and avoid the tool. Position it as creativity,…

  • CEOs use AI to create products

    I recently stumbled across this, and this. Mr.Dang made a family tree software for Vietnamese. Mr.Sting made a social platform for cats. Family tree and cats are unlikely their domain. Business is. They saw problems worth solving and used AI to build and ship. Imagination determines the scale of impact, not the tool. We had…

  • Claude Chrome: risk of waiting

    Claude Chrome automates webpage navigation, but also has a longer wait time than regular chat. It is easy to fill the wait with doom-scroll and free time. Iteration became too easy, it creates the illusion that “doing the work” is “finishing the work”. Stop when the iteration provides marginal gains. Move on.

  • Secondhand iPhone

    Measure value by result, not money invested. Buying a new iPhone feels amazing. This thing will make my life better in multiple ways, I better match the color with a nice case. Don’t forget screen protector, I don’t want to dent the screen. There’s also that dust plug for the charger cutout. BTW, holiday is…

  • Think at 100x scale

    The more I talk with AI, the more it felt human. Except it isn’t. I’m limiting artificial intelligence with human intelligence. I can 2x the slide output, 5x if I worked hard, and 10x if I streamlined the workflow. But 100x is not reasonable. This isn’t true for AI. Next time prompting, try to add…