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Rachna Ghiya's avatar

Hey Chris! I can relate to this article. I love the matrix you provided and how you have used the same in your life. Loved your sketches :)

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Chris J Wilson's avatar

Thanks Rachna. I've used the matrix for work many times. It's so good and simple. It's also fun to check how accurate your prediction on impact are! I love how it makes you slow down and stop chasing the newest idea and really consider what will work.

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lastly then's avatar

Thanks for sharing this. I've been using Trello too.

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Chris J Wilson's avatar

No problem. Since publishing I’ve just realised that it might make more sense for my to move to Obsidian (where I have notes on each project) but I still think Trello is a great option.

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lastly then's avatar

😃 I'm using Obsidian too, and really scaled back on Trello and Notion since I started using it. And yeah, it's really good.

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Chris J Wilson's avatar

Like you, I still find some roles where Trello and Notion are still very useful. I find that although you can do (almost) anything with Obsidian, that doesn't mean you should! At the same time, it's just a good place to think!

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Mark's avatar

I don't know what I want, and every time I sit down to think about it, doing the dishes or painting the garden fence seem like much more attractive propositions. I actually really like the idea of using chat GPT to try and align things to my core values. I at least have a little more sense of what they are. I'm going to try and carve out some time to work on this over the next couple of days.

Thanks for the inspiration Chris!

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Chris J Wilson's avatar

No problem. I found I had to work my prompt/persona a bit to get good results. Normally it jumped into advice too quickly. I've long thought that writing the prompt often helps me solve problems and the answer generated doesn't matter that much once I've got my prompt right.

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Mark's avatar

The prompt writing might be harder than most people expect, that you can’t just say “Do this” and it does what you want is a bit of a learning curve.

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Kacy Maxwell's avatar

Yeah it takes a minute but the more you use it the more helpful it becomes. I use it to create prompts for me for journaling. Or if I am trying to think through a problem. It won’t give me the answer but it will ask me questions that can help me determine one.

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Mark's avatar

I keep meaning to feed a GPT some journal entries in order for it to be better able to answer my questions and prompt me better in turn. It's a lot of work to set up though I've found. It's a bit too general at first for me. If I can be bothered to do the set up it will be amazing.

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Kacy Maxwell's avatar

I don’t normally feed it anything. I just use it a bunch and it has learned from those interactions.

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Chris J Wilson's avatar

My experience has been like Kacy, you notice what prompts generate better/worse responses. I have found that if you inject an idea, it can be very hard to get it to lose it so sometimes you just need to start afresh rather than try to convince it to change.

The most meta tip I've come across is to get chatgpt to help you write your prompt for chatgpt...and it really works!

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