Simon Joliveau Breney

In our design sprints, we found that if we ended each workday before people were exhausted, the week’s productivity increased dramatically. Even shortening the day by thirty minutes made a big difference.

Framing the task as high-stakes or important can encourage the AI to “try harder.”

• Before : Provide a detailed analysis of .

• After : Imagine you are preparing a report for the executive team. Provide a detailed analysis of .

Des scientifiques de l’Université Carnegie Mellon aux États-Unis, associés à des chercheurs de Microsoft – qu’on ne peut suspecter de technophobie à l'égard de l’intelligence artificielle – viennent de publier une étude qui conclut que plus les personnes utilisent l’IA générative dans leur travail, moins elles feront preuve d’esprit critique. Et

1. Three posts a week, more or less.


2. One idea per post. If I find myself launching into another section, cut and paste the extra into a separate draft post, and tie off the original one with the word “Anyway.” Then publish.


3. No hedging, no nuance. If I’m getting in a twist about a sentence, take it out.


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“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think."

- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet (The Crosswicks Journals Book 1) (p. 149). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

The desktop user interface is a mainstay of computing. Bread and butter, if you will. A pointer, icons, windows, menus and buttons, controlled using a keyboard and a mouse. Ingenious simplicity.

For almost half a century now, we haven't really managed to come up with something better, and that's not for lack of trying. This fact seems to annoy a lot