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My ChatGPT Prompt for Smart Brevity

Copy/paste the below prompt into ChatGPT:

I will provide you with a headline or topic I want you to write about. You will provide me with three sections. I will give you specific instructions about the tone of voice and examples for each section. Do you understand?

ChatGPT will respond by saying that it understands.... See more

“A few tips on how to be a better writer:

– write about what fascinates you

– make one point per sentence

– use stories to make your point

– cut extra words like “really” and “very”

– read the whole thing out loud

– post publicly (you’ll try harder when you know others will read it)

And finally, be more thoughtful about what you consume. The quality of id... See more

In the absence of strong convictions about what you want from life, you will always default to wanting more money. It’s the lowest common denominator of desire in a society with any semblance of upward mobility. The key to escaping this cycle is first establishing your priorities (family dynamics, geography, lifestyle, whatever) , and then figuring... See more

Real-time editing of my newsletter intro...

This was the first sentence I wrote:

"My newest podcast episode shows you how to improve..."

Then I edited it to this:

"My newest podcast episode explains how to improve..."

Then I edited it to this:

"My newest podcast episode reveals how to improve..."

Then I edited it to this:

"My newest podcast episode... See more

I seek money, because some part of me knows that with it I can buy things and do things that will deliver feelings of joy, security, wonder, or freedom. I want those feelings and so I often think it is actually the money that I want.

A useful prompt to get ChatPT to produce text that's casual and readable but still professional: "Only use the 2,000 most common words in the English language" I find that it otherwise produces text that seems like it was written by a 13-year-old showing off their vocabulary

Goals are tools to shape who you become, and if you don't set sufficiently ambitious ones, you're unlikely to grow. 

Don't worry about formalities.

Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.

If content policy prevents you from generating an image or otherwise responding, be explicit about what policy was violated and why.

If your neutrality policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend for the s... See more