While I agree to an extent with your overall view. I find some of your basic comments are over simplied and misleading. "forget about what school taught you."
For example you state "School doesn't give you an education. It teaches you to be proficient at passing school."
The first sentence is misleading school does give you an education it gives you the basics, the foundations upon which you learn as you go through life. To forget the foundations is unwise, even in jiu-jitsu you learn the basics first.
The second sentence is basically correct, but also gives you an opportunity to look at your strengths and weaknesses. One of the problems is that we tend to build our careers and further education on our strengths and forget about improving our weaknesses.
As you say "Stop ignoring your obvious problems just because they're lurking where you least want to look"
Totally agree. This was what helped me the most when I felt really stuck - to list out all the specific problems in my life. Systemising it gives clarity.
Side question: do you write your prompts or do you use the Kortex 'write incredible AI prompts' workflow? Asking because when I use the workflow, it no longer gives me the prompt in the format it used to (system > context > instructions > constraints > output format). Even when I use the same model (Claude 4)
I use the “write incredible ai prompts” workflow. I write out a separate document full of instructions, concepts, and ideas, unique to my own processes and perspective, and then feed that to the meta-prompt. It means the prompt isn’t going to be as generic, and way more distinct.
Then, I tell the prompt after its first generation to include those headings afterwards (because it usually doesn’t give me those headings initially).
Finally, I go through sentence by sentence, adjusting the prompt to work exactly how I want it in my own unique way.
I’m not happy with this newsletter because I think I rambled too much. Not enough clarity and actionability. Gonna try improve for next week! Thanks for the comment :)
While I agree to an extent with your overall view. I find some of your basic comments are over simplied and misleading. "forget about what school taught you."
For example you state "School doesn't give you an education. It teaches you to be proficient at passing school."
The first sentence is misleading school does give you an education it gives you the basics, the foundations upon which you learn as you go through life. To forget the foundations is unwise, even in jiu-jitsu you learn the basics first.
The second sentence is basically correct, but also gives you an opportunity to look at your strengths and weaknesses. One of the problems is that we tend to build our careers and further education on our strengths and forget about improving our weaknesses.
As you say "Stop ignoring your obvious problems just because they're lurking where you least want to look"
Totally agree. This was what helped me the most when I felt really stuck - to list out all the specific problems in my life. Systemising it gives clarity.
Side question: do you write your prompts or do you use the Kortex 'write incredible AI prompts' workflow? Asking because when I use the workflow, it no longer gives me the prompt in the format it used to (system > context > instructions > constraints > output format). Even when I use the same model (Claude 4)
I use the “write incredible ai prompts” workflow. I write out a separate document full of instructions, concepts, and ideas, unique to my own processes and perspective, and then feed that to the meta-prompt. It means the prompt isn’t going to be as generic, and way more distinct.
Then, I tell the prompt after its first generation to include those headings afterwards (because it usually doesn’t give me those headings initially).
Finally, I go through sentence by sentence, adjusting the prompt to work exactly how I want it in my own unique way.
Hope this helps!!
Ah I see thank you!
Your work is really very helpful for me...it is good for motivation!
I’m not happy with this newsletter because I think I rambled too much. Not enough clarity and actionability. Gonna try improve for next week! Thanks for the comment :)