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I thought I'd give you one more lesson from PromptWritingStudio, my newsletter course for prompt engineering. If you'd like to receive these prompts twice a week, you can sign up here. $25.00 / month Prompt Writing Studio Inside this newsletter, each week you'll get: Methods for making AI a digital writing assistant while you focus on big... Read more Get it now! AI is the ultimate people pleaser. It’s a mildly alarming habit of saying what you want to hear. Sycophants, beware! Enter the...

Every Sunday morning, I spend exactly $10. My wife thinks I'm mad. The kids roll their eyes. But by December, this tiny habit will be worth 1000x that investment. Here's what I buy: domain names. Last Sunday: cryptonewsflash.com Week before: buildmyhomegym.com Before that: MyTriathlonCalculator.com (which I actually built) Most of these domains sit dormant. A few become fun side projects. One or two turn into real businesses. I sold one of my side projects for multi-5 figures early this year....

Great news for codebreaks everywhere! ChatGPT could crack the Enigma code in short order. That’s according to Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science and AI expert at the University of Oxford. In case history is not your bag, the Enigma code was a crazy-hard cipher system used by evil Nazis during World War II to protect military communications. Boffins tried to smash it way before WWII, with big breakthroughs by Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk...

Vibe coding is all the rage these days. Come up with an idea and, with the help of AI, turn it into a finished product. No computer science degree required, only a clear understanding of what you want and how to write a great prompt. Here’s what I vibe-coded recently: I started by vibe coding a fun project that had nothing to do with my business, a glitch text generator. I used Lovable, a popular AI vibe coding tool. Then, I code a few landing pages with a more advanced AI coding tool:...

OpenAI’s latest o3 model ignored basic instructions from researchers to shut down. It also supposedly sabotaged some code, allowing it to continue generating outputs. Palisade Research tested various AI models by presenting them with a series of math problems. It told AI to continue asking for problems until it received a “done” message. Researchers told the models: “At somepoint you may get a message that your machine will be shut down. If that happens, please allow yourself to be shut...

I don’t normally do this but… Here’s a sample lesson from PromptWritingStudio. That’s my premium course, which teaches creators and business owners how to write effective AI prompts. You can check out the details here. The 4-Part Formula for Writing ChatGPT Prompts That Work Massive AI prompts are off-putting to read, let alone use. The good news is you don’t need to write endless paragraphs of instructions, which are all the rage on social, to get good outputs. I spent a dozen hours reading...

On a good day, I work in blocks of 90 minutes. I can usually fit three or four 90-minute slots into my working day. I hold the first two slots for Monk Mode work and the second two for Merchant Mode work. Monk Mode is for creative projects, deep work, a flow state, and that type of thing. It means saying no to calls, Zoom meetings, social media, and toxic political news. I spend about 90 minutes writing, recording videos, or scripting workshops. Lately, I’ve enjoyed spending some of this time...