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Shift from Writing to Speaking
Observation Using voice will dramatically increase our productivity. The shift I’ve made is this: Let the human brain focus on creating the context and let AI do the formatting. This exists on a spectrum: from the “fancy” side using Wispr Flow — which helps with formatting and removing the “ums” and “ahs” — to the…
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Individual development plan
Without a clear iteration objective, learning is a search for hope. Individual development plans are given to improve productivity at work. At my last job, IDPs were 20% of the KPI structure, the rest was task performance. A common pattern: read a book, study a course. The hope is that somewhere in the process, something…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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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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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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.