Advice: Should we wait to act? ‘The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is today.”
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How to generate Product Ideas with GPT-4 (Try it with other models as well)
The best prompt for idea generation in our paper for GPT-4 was: “Generate product ideas with the following requirements: [insert constraints here]. The ideas are just ideas. The product need not yet exist, nor may it necessarily be clearly feasible. Follow these steps. Do each step, even if you think you do not need to. …
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From the hyper-optimist and thought leader: Peter Diamandis
17 Habits to Live by: •Prioritize sleep •Eat less sugar •Exercise for 30 minutes •Cook more at home •Practice gratitude •Meditate •Don’t watch the news •Plan your day •Get a morning routine •Get a night routine •Track your finances •Set your goals •Cut back on alcohol •Invest in your future •Educate yourself always •Get out …
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A little help is nice…..
“It’s nice to have a little help, but we often resent when someone else tries to do it all for us. Each individual wants to make their own dreams a reality. If someone hands you the whole thing on a silver platter, they gift you the result, but rob you of the accomplishment. Remember this …
Fed up with feedback?
Transforming feedback to actionable insight Feedback often shows up like a lump of coal in a clean room – unwelcome and annoying. Here’s what we need to do to help us get to actionable feedback – (1) Acknowledging that all feedback is between 1% and 99% true. It is our responsibility to figure out what …
A Little Help
“It’s nice to have a little help, but we often resent when someone else tries to do it all for us. Each individual wants to make their own dreams a reality. If someone hands you the whole thing on a silver platter, they gift you the result, but rob you of the accomplishment. Remember this …
Use our intelligence and work together to solve our common problems
The wisdom of President Lincoln: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“customer behaviour science”
The genius of modern day guilt based marketing and basis of “customer behaviour science”. This from Seth Godin: “ Comfort and convenience For the last thirty years, the easiest shortcut has been convenience. If a marketer or a politician or an institution wants to gain acceptance, make it convenient. Tim Wu has pointed out that …
How to criticize something you disagree with
How to criticize something you disagree with, Here are social psychologist Anatol Rapoport’s rules for criticizing something: You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.” You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are …
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Try this simple strategy to feel organized – Thanks Recomendo
Simple strategy for cleaning The next time you have a big mess to clean up try “the pile method”. The pile method is when you collect all the stuff that needs to be put away in one giant pile, and then sort those things — like with like — into smaller piles, and put those …
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