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Apr 17
I love how ChatGPT is reminding people about the fundamentals of good writing

By showing us bad writing

People were worried kids & adults would use it to cheat and pass off machine thoughts as their own

Instead, what's happening is ChatGPT is good at everything BUT the final stage: style and usage...

The "elementary" rules...

That's why @paulg flags inflated diction and words like delve

Because they violate principles of great writing (not mechanics and grammar, but what's harder to learn: "style in the sense of what is distinguished and distinguishing.")

Decades ago I printed this page, underlined a few things, and wrote comments in the margins (including "Beat Army." I was at the U.S. Naval Academy back then).

This page, and two other reminders (next tweets in thread), are all you need to know about writing...

Save them as a trinity of writing advice

They'll be your guide when you stare at the ceiling and ask, "What am I trying to say?"

Even after you see ChatGPT words in front of you.Image
Orwell's advice for a scrupulous writer.

Follow to make your writing valuable. Image
Cut out this sentence and tape it to your desk.

Look at it every time you're stuck and need to find the right thought.

I lost count of how many times that simple reminder has rescued me from a hopeless situation.

All writing advice condensed to one sentence: Image
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Dec 4, 2023
The ultimate question:

How did we go from living in trees…to teaching machines language, and where do we go from here?

This is the story of humanity, distilled.

Read this:
1⃣To see today through our past
2⃣To predict where humanity might go
3⃣To contribute to human progressImage
In the millions of years since we split from chimps, our species has experienced 15 Great Evolutions (or revolutions), and another one is in progress.

Great Evolutions proceed through phases and culminate in the emergence of a breakthrough tool. Image
Breakthrough tools give our species new powers and sustainable competitive advantages. They extend from our ability to adapt and interact with the world differently.

The Great Evolution underway now and occurring within our lifetimes is giving us the ultimate tool-making tool.
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Apr 6, 2023
I made a list of 150 crazy things we didn't have 15 years ago

So many used to be hard or frustrating, now they just work

It’s wild how different the world is now

Imagine what it'll be in the future:
🔷EVs
🔷E-books
🔷YouTube
🔷Podcasts
🔷VR gaming
🔷Video calls
🔷Audiobooks
🔷3D printing
🔷Social media
🔷Remote work
🔷Telemedicine
🔷Crowdfunding
🔷Online dating
🔷Online gaming
🔷Online banking
🔷Online learning
🔷Online shopping
🔷Fitness trackers
🔷Mobile hotspots
🔷Mobile payments
🔷Home automation
🔷Voice assistants
🔷Scheduling tools
🔷QR code scanning
🔷Group video calls
🔷Interactive maps
🔷Smart thermostats
🔷Home solar panels
🔷Password managers
🔷Smartphone wallets
🔷Remote car starters
🔷Autonomous vehicles
🔷Online food delivery
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Apr 3, 2023
I asked ChatGPT about what it’s like to work with humans

Its answer was surprising

I told it to give me 9 of the best metaphors it could think of about its relationship with creative people

The list shows how powerful AI will be for creative work:
One thing up front:

After ChatGPT gave me the list of metaphors

I asked which was closest to the way it thinks about its relationship with creative people

To me it showed the proper way we should think about it too
1. Artist and muse:

The AI assistant is the muse that inspires the human artist

The AI provides creative ideas, suggestions, and perspectives, sparking the artist's imagination and helping them overcome creative blocks
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Mar 13, 2023
The best 2-min from the best product launch of all-time

& more profound than we think

Revolutionary products are made possible by revolutionary user interfaces

This is what people STILL don't appreciate about conversational AI

And what makes it revolutionary...🧵
Steve had a simple & profound insight:

Revolutionary user interfaces don't just make revolutionary products possible because they change the way we interact w/machines

They make them possible because they use a unique human ability we already possess

Something we're born with
The Mac was made possible by the mouse – and mouse was designed for our *hands*

The iPod and iPhone were made possible by the click wheel and multi-touch – and those were designed for our *fingers*
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Feb 26, 2023
Last night in NYC, @eugenewei talked about how companies think.

“2003 to 2004 was my last year at Amazon.

I joined a skunkworks project inside the company. It was a small team & we were working on something new, not related to retail.

It was a pet project for Jeff Bezos…
Jeff came to us and said, “We're trying out something different now.

This is how we're going to work every week.

You’re going to write a memo. You’re going to write down an essay for me. Then you're going to print it out for me.
Then you’re going to come to me, and I'm going to sit there and read it and mark it up.

Every week I wrote memos and essays. Then Jeff tore me apart face-to-face.

When I wasn't stressing over the revisions, I was thinking about why Jeff wanted to us to write memos & essays.
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