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SPAR is another short, general-purpose framework

It stands for Scenario, Problem, Action, Result

Embracing Effortlessness

The thread I seem to be following today is around the idea that we can make the things we do feel effortless by getting into a state of flow (while I’m not currently reading it, the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly is an absolute must-read!)....

I mentioned in a previous AI Quick Tip post that I used meta-prompting to figure out how to play a game of gin rummy with Perplexity AI.  This post goes into the details.

Wow, today I feel very called out (but not in a bad way). I started reading Greg McKeown’s book Effortless. I previously read his book Essentialism and loved it (I even follow him on LinkedIn for his weekly insights). I’m not even 15 pages into this book, and he describes...

These days there are a lot of CRM options out there and they have a lot of features.  That’s good because you can likely find a combination that works for you.  That’s bad because it may take a while to figure out what you want.  

No, this isn’t about Facebook or any of Zuckerberg’s companies….

Prompt frameworks offer a quick and low-effort way to feed the information that you care about to your AI tool of choice.

CARE is a short, general-purpose framework.  It stands for Context, Action, Result, Example.

People like free.  People (are starting to) like AI.  Why not combine the two?

Several of the most popular AI tools are available now for free.  

About a month ago OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, launched “OpenAI for Nonprofits”.  This program allows qualifying organizations to get a discount on ChatGPT Team.

If you aren’t getting the results that you want, it might be because you are using the wrong words.  A slight change in the words that you are using could change everything.

It can be easy to forget that you are talking to a machine when using tools like ChatGPT. You can...