The one AI workflow most people miss:
Use it to translate your expertise into questions.
You know your field deeply. You forgot what it's like not to know.
Prompt: "I understand [concept]. What are 10 questions someone who's 6 months behind me would ask about... See more
I take the patterns and principles I agree with—signature moves I want to enhance, foibles I want to avoid—and add them to my personal “style guide”: a Google Doc full of guidelines and examples that train the model on how to think like me. Plugged into the project files of a ChatGPT or Claude project, it functions as a “writing brain” that brings... See more
Every time I publish a new essay, I go through the same ritual.
I download a Word document of the final draft and upload it to the project I have set up for my Every column Working Overtime in ChatGPT. Once it's there, I prompt it with one of my favorite AI incantations: What do you notice?