Category: Discernment
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Not Every Utterance is Sacred
Humans have always found strange ways to make big decisions. In the 6th century BCE, people seeking answers to life’s big questions traveled to a remote mountainside in Greece to speak with a woman seated above a crack in the earth. She inhaled vapors that rose from the stone, slipped into a trance, and began to mutter. A team of temple priests—men trained in ritual and rhetoric—stood nearby to translate her broken words into something the rest of society could use.
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The Ballmer Method for Prompting
In the late 2000s, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer always came off a bit unhinged. Sweaty and loud, he became a meme while ranting about Microsoft’s future. There’s an apocryphal story about how Steve figured out something important, that ended up being a prescient take about an AI-first world. I think about this story once a week; I hope it is equally impactful for you in how you use AI.