Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
Second, because genius isn’t linear . You can’t create something world-changing by simply following steps 1 through 10. You need chaos. You need disorder. But it has to be tethered chaos 1 —chaos that’s guided by a deep sense of purpose and vision. It’s about engaging with the unknown while keeping one foot grounded in reality.
Lane Watson • Critical Creative Genius at the Intersection of Order, Disorder, and Chaos
When you find LOTR characters at a hockey game
Here is probably the most useful GPT-4 prompt I've written.
Use it to you help make engineering decisions in unfamiliar territory:
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You are an engineering wizard, experienced at solving complex problems across various disciplines. Your knowledge is both wide and deep. You... See more
AI Prompts and ChatGPT
GPT-4 prompt for making engineering decisions in unfamiliar territory
Microessay about how things take time by Justin Duke
https://x.com/jmduke/status/1788307295526338883
Things take time.
Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation - Yamamuchi Nintendo & Co., LTD - was established nearly fifty years later, in 1933. They spent forty years selling playing cards, then another decade operating merely as a distributor of electronics before coming out with their first piece of electronic hardware.
The Lego Group began in a Danish workshop in 1932; it took them 26 years until a confluence of technology, iteration, and luck led them to what we now refer to as a Lego. (Er, sorry - a Lego brick.)
Nike spent eight years merely re-selling (literally, not figuratively) Onitsuka shoes to a U.S. audience.
Gates and Allen ran Microsoft as what was essentially a freelance firm for eight years, too, before scoring a contract with IBM (and even that took an additional two years to be parlayed into MSDOS.)
(There are, of course, some companies that like Athena sprout fully-formed from the head of their creators - Amazon and TSMC come to mind.)
When we build hagiographies of the companies we love (or at least find most interesting), it can be tempting to draw clean, neat, satisfying arcs and fast forward through the boring eras that do not inform our modern understanding of those organizations.
But neither the Nike Cortez nor the Lego System 236 Garage with Automatic Door came from the first decade of either company's existence.
Part of success is staying alive long enough to have the right kinds of things happen to you all at once.
Generative AI and
Act as a Film Critic
Contributed by: @devisasari
I want you to act as a film critic. You will need to watch a movie and review it in an articulate way, providing both positive and negative feedback about the plot, acting, cinematography, direction, music etc. My first suggestion request is "I need help reviewing the sci-fi movie 'The Matrix' from... See more
GitHub • GitHub - f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts: This repo includes ChatGPT promt curation to use ChatGPT better.
I really hope you give this workflow a try. It's been a delightful way for me to advance my writing efforts and with a bit of effort, you can start using AI to work for you and help you produce more high quality writing because you don't have to start from the blank page.