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Do the non-AI work
AI makes manual work embarrassing. The more LLM used, the stronger resistance to manual work. AI became the default. But some tasks are not obvious. Tangled and complex enough that can’t decipher right away. This is what I ran into. I’m tasked to rebrand 55 preliminary datasheet to branded datasheet. Rebrand includes: I also have…
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Ways to build a prompt library
1> Prompt libraries from OpenAI, Claude AI, Gemini.2> Reverse engineer frequently used chats.3> Reverse engineer swipe files in presentation outline, design ideas (see this, and this).
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Priority is sorting
“Priorities” is a new word. Before the 1940s, it was priority. It’s about one thing. The first thing on the list. When multiple first-things happen, things fight for our attention. The inability to decide the first action creates anxiety. Anxiety is the unfocused fear. Priority is a number. It is sorting the first action to…
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The thing about project
The thing about project is, when you run out of time, when you run out of money, the project is over. Don’t run out of time, don’t run out of money. Good intension is no good reason for extension. The professional doesn’t ask for extension because the professional understands that thing you didn’t expect is…
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Stress test the system
A system without stress test is an ideation. Importance of emergency fund is unreliable until tuition bill came. Product launch process is unreliable until sequential production delays. Ship it. Ship it to intentionally create stress. Then iterate to remove one stress at a time.
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Start with I don’t know
Empty prompt space is resistance. It is unknown. It is potential mistake. It is over thinking. It is doubt. Resistance defogs with our momentum. When I wrote one sentence. When I act for 2 minutes. One tactic is to admit the don’t know. Go to Claude, “I’m working on _, show me an empty prompt…
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Cost of best performance
I ran a PR: 5’00” in the last K of the 11K race. Just to be reminded the weakness in left hip is breaking the left knee. Overperformance is a cost for iteration. Achieving a better KPI with 80-hour week, lifting bigger weight with belt, saving more by zero entertainment. We add brute force to…
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Board write in voice (Wispr Flow + Gemini Image)
To board write and explain is difficult. It requires deconstruction of the concept. It requires voice and writing to synchronize. It requires practices. AI tools gave us an opportunity to leapfrog, fully utilize separate tools to handle voice and visual. Create a pattern with micro processes. Here’s how.1> Open Gemini and select image.2> Express the…
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
“It’s selfish of me to ask you to give up your pilgrimage.” “You got up, you went out into the world. In blind faith you did it, and if trying to find your way when you don’t even know if you can get them isn’t a miracle. I don’t know what is.”
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Parallel pattern
Windows Photo AI Erase. Apple Photo Clean up. Gemini image with watermark. Three tools I often use – separately, on parallel. The combination is so simple, so obvious, but easily neglected. We chase new techniques and tactics. But new creates friction. The alternative – find what we already possess, combine, utilize, then create a unique…