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Pattern learning and steal like an artist
This is a technique I frequently use to iterate faster to pattern learning: steal. Take a look at these two examples. Pattern recognition The first image is from a 2023 ASUS product announcement, I screenshot and kept it in the swipe file. Months later, it became a source to mimic in a product launch. Pattern…
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Catalog spec table aggregator
ISC West is a month away. Which reminds me one of the most painful assets to make: catalogs. More specifically, the spec table. Somehow typos are endless. This is my 2026 prompt to aggregate all specs and find discrepancies. It’s an extension of the datasheet rebrand project.
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Pyramid of capitalizing
🔻 Base — Skilled Labor Trading time for money. The Industrial Revolution model. Most people are stuck here. 🔺 Level 1 — Intellectual Property (IP) + Media Rather than learning more stuff, you reflect and create. Document what you’ve done, turn it into a story, record a video, make a guide. IP is anything written,…
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Mock. Skeptical. Run.
Electricity made tractors available in masses. But tractor didn’t replace farmers in the first discovery, it took iteration. The first tractor was powered by steam. It was delicate and expensive and required trained operators. This was a prototype. Prototype isn’t built for volume. So it didn’t look like a threat. The sight of mid field…
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Electricity. Internet. AI.
Electricity enabled industrial revolution. Farmers no longer rely on hard labor to harvest. Tractors and machines amplified the crop volume. Internet enabled information revolution. Farmers in Brazil can connect with farmers in Vietnam, it is easier to find cure to plant diseases. Crops can be harvested in warm countries during winter and shipped over. Quality…
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Iterations
It’s about the number of iterations that drive the learning curve. And iteration is not repetition. Repetition is a different thing. Repeating is doing the same thing over and over. Iteration is modifying is with a learning and doing another version of it. So that’s error correction. So if you get 10,000 error correction at…
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Deferred life hypothesis
Stop whipping yourself into submission, thinking that your happiness sits on the other side of the next set of goals that you’re going to achieve. You’ve already achieved the goals that you said would make you happy. So if you haven’t made it now, if this isn’t when life is going to begin, then when…
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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…