Shachaf Rodberg

My writing is a beacon for new connections, ideas, and opportunities. Almost all my closest friends are people I’ve met on the internet. Reading somebody else’s writing is a great gauge of a person’s mind. It reveals how they think, what inspires them, and what they value.

I also received positive feedback from my clients, who said that their time with me was the most impactful part of their week! This hit my north star metric: insights per minute.

As a writer, your goal isn’t to become an expert, but rather to report on or write to them. Hence, your knowledge base is better built around citation instead of internalization. You don’t need to memorize; you need to link.

The “near me” version of queries became the dominant version about 10 years ago.

So the affordances of the search results changes our behavior.

It’s fun to imagine whole new kinds of search queries / questions that you simply wouldn’t type into Google because it wouldn’t make sense. Things like:

• Why am I feeling anxious today?


• What should I work on

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Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter

These actions rarely felt like doing more work, yet over time they produced a workday with fewer natural pauses and a more continuous involvement with work. The conversational style of prompting further softened the experience; typing a line to an AI system felt closer to chatting than to undertaking a formal task

The more you ground your analysis in the founder’s personal history and intuition, the easier it is to get what you want approved.