An Insight About Insights

Audience Participation Time!

Hey Legends,

As mentioned last week, I have a new role at Million Dollar Coach, Heading up Blackbelt Labs. It’s a dream job for me, and the opportunity to look at how AI impacts all aspects of Coaching is incredible.

There were a couple of things I was focusing on this week that I thought would be very useful to discuss here. I have been doing much work on seeing how good the LLMs were at writing their own prompts. I also got to work with custom instructions for the first time and saw their usefulness, particularly if you are working in teams, but super useful for anyone.

I also had a “living the dream” moment when I added the “Smart Connector” AI plug-in to Obsidian.

Also, the next video in the Kanban series is up, talking about the “Pen”, when you have to wait on stuff and others. If you hated group projects at school. This one is for you!🤡

Asking the AI to write it’s own prompts

There is a concept in what I think is information theory, or physics, or something. Let’s say science. It goes something like this.

To be able to conduct an experiment or observe a space, you have to be out of the space you are observing or experimenting in.

During insane September, which is almost at an end, I have been trying to be too clever in my prompt writing.

I figured (because I have been time-challenged) what if I asked the AI to write the prompt for me or a part of the prompt?

It sounds great, in theory. LLMs are so good at creating all sorts of things; they can write programs and poetry. It can have Cartman sing any song in his own voice. It can make me look good.

It is a miracle!

So surely, creating its own prompts would be a snip.

But it sucked.

The time I spent trying to massage the results, I may as well have written the prompt I wanted to work on myself.

But Ed!

Who, not How? Even if it is 80 per cent, it’s saved you time.

This is true.

However,

In the last four weeks, when I wrote the prompt from scratch, It produced significantly better results every time.

It was also more fun and exciting.

Why?

It goes back to this science thing about being in the space as opposed to being an observer of the space.

It’s the same principle as an editor will always, always do a better job editing your writing than you will.

Oh yes, Ed, we know, we know. (I am sorry, hey, when I hit 1000 paid legends, I’ll hire an editor 😄)

The Large Language model is brilliant at so many things…

All of them are the AI doing the work based on observing the space.

HMMMMMM

When we ask the AI to write its prompts, we are asking it to be good as something it is inside of. It’s inside of its own space. It will only do a middling job.

When you ask it to code something, the AI is taking its observations of the best (and worst) practices in the particular code language space.

No Problem.

This is why coaching is so important. You get an outside perspective from what you are doing. Masterminding is effective when talking about ideas with friends and colleagues (when facilitated well), all examples of outside perspectives.

Inputs from outside of YOUR SPACE are the ones that deliver the epiphanies, the AHA moments.

Hey Ed, what about when you get an insight, inspiration, when you come up with a cool concept…

Great question. This is a question deserving significant discussion.

In the meantime,

Can I ask you to ponder two things?

Think about your most recent “A-HA” moment (think about the last time you had an absolute banger of an insight);

1. What were you doing?

2. Did the “A-HA” creep up on you, you were in your head thinking about it, or did it arrive in a moment relatively fully formed? For example, you just wrote it out, it flowed, and you were not thinking; You were typing (Or whatever you were doing).

Contemplate this for a couple of minutes.

I’d love you to answer the two questions in the comments. What the “A-HA” was for this exercise is not important. Just let me know the answers to the two questions.

It will be fascinating to see our collective results…

To give you an idea, I was asked to create a prompt that would allow the team and freelancers to write in a brand (In our case, Taki Moore’s) voice.

I knew I wanted to use the new custom instructions feature in ChatGPT plus

So, I started by asking ChatGPT to think about how it should create a custom instruction.

BZZZZZZZ.

It was not great. Everything was generic.

I’d been working on this for four days. Then the “A-HA” hit.

So, to answer the two questions.

1. I was in bed dozing about 4 am

2. The solution hit me relatively fully formed. I got out of bed and started testing the idea in ChatGPT. I was in flow; I felt “buzzy”, excited like I knew I was on to something. I tested the concept in chatGPT; It took a CFT (Critical focus Time - 50 minutes of focused work). It worked.

I sent this text - note the time (LOL)

Published the post at 12:52 pm

This is not to brag. It’s just an example, can’t wait to see your answer to the AHA question in the comments.

Custom Instructions Are Cool

If you haven’t used Custom Instructions yet in ChatGPT. You should, If you have a team or want ChatGPT to give a consistent output for your posts and ads it’s an excellent halfway house between using a system prompt and fine-tuning.

Don’t stress to much about these terms but know they are important.

Fine-tuning, training an LLM (Large Language Model like ChatGPT or Claude) with your own work, or the work that made you or your business what you are is going to be super crucial. Fine-tuning for the rest of us will be a constant theme here in the “Little Blue Report”

Anywho (remember 1000 paid legends and I’ll hire an editor🤡),

You can use Custom instructions to personalise your own ChatGPT.

I discovered this when I left the Taki custom instructions on and all of a sudden my ChatGPT sessions were full of Taco references and sounded like Taki.

I found this thread on Reddit really inspiring for Custom Instructions. As I have discussed previously, I don’t like the “Demand” tone of some of these but you can always edit them.

Have fun, would love to see what you come up with!

Now let’s turn to this weeks video!

Introducing: “Unlock Your Productivity: The ‘Pen’ Strategy Every ADHD Entrepreneur Needs”

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• How to streamline your workflow with “The Pen.”

• The secret to moving tasks from “To-Do” to “Done.”

• Why “The Pen” is the ADHD entrepreneur’s best friend.

Why Should You Care?

Because time is money, Legend. And if you’re not optimising your time, you’re leaving money on the table. Simple as that.

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Wrapping Up

Don’t let ADHD or lack of focus hold you back. Master “The Pen” and take control of your entrepreneurial journey. Click here to watch the video now.

Keep being legendary

Ed

P.S. I added the “Smart Connector” plug-in to Obsidian after a text from Dan Dobos insisting I drop everything and download it now.

He was right.

I’m pretty sure I had a transcendental experience. It takes Obsidian to 11.

So, for those of you on the Obsidian train. Run, don’t walk, to get this plug-in.

It “fine-tunes” (sort of AI nerds) ChatGPT on your obsidian vault. As Dan, explained to me, one of the areas we do not really think about, is all the stuff we know, that we’ve forgotten we know. The “Smart Connector” plug-in solves that.

Super Cool.