Most people suck at using AI. This is the easiest way to get more out of it... 💯

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This episode is all about AI. We’re jumping straight into:

🪂 Care-Package: AI content generation, how I’m using voice AI in my daily workflow & running vs meditating.

🧗‍♂️ Building in Public: The Newsletter

Let’s get into it 💪

🪂 Care-Package:

A weekly package of actionable strategies to help you Grow Faster through content, business & health.

🧲 Attract an audience:

🚀 Writing content in minutes with AI

Earlier today, NFT GOD (Alex Finn) dropped the post of the year…

The latest AI platform Grok (think ChatGPT, by Elon) can now analyse tweets that perform well and recommend similar content for you to create.

NFT GOD recommended how he’s using this based on his own tweets,

But for beginner creators… right now you can start using this to learn from OTHER people’s tweets.

Although this isn’t a strong longterm strategy

(Everyone needs to find their own voice 🗣)

The biggest thing I see is that most people fail in their content journey because they just aren’t producing enough content to see results.

This is a great way to get started and ensure that you’re hitting your content goals each week.

To get access to Grok AI, you can join the waitlist here.

🍄 Become Better:

🎙️ Most people suck at using AI. But ChatGPT voice makes becoming an AI-powered genius feel easy.

Have you ever seen the movie Her?

Where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with the AI siri in his phone.

Well, that exists now.

I’ll admit, ChatGPT is awesome, but the biggest limitation that I’ve found is that it’s not ‘fun’ to use.

If you prompt it wrong, you find yourself in a situation where you’re scratching your head thinking “hmm.. this isn’t helpful. Do I keep trying?” 🤔

And after half an hour of back and forth, you’re still right where you started.

A lot of people that I speak to have stopped using it for this very reason…

Saying things like “I don’t know, I just don’t find it useful for my work”

ChatGPT voice completely changes that experience and makes work not feel like work.

You talk to it, just like a friend.

And it responds, with infinite patience and more ‘conversationally’ than the written format that we’re all used to.

You can access it via the mobile app (with a ChatGPT subscription), by clicking here:

My workflow with ChatGPT voice is…

Whenever I have something I am trying to work through,

I go for a 30-45 minute walk through the park with my headphones in, having a back and forth conversation with it.

I’ve been testing it for a few weeks to see how I can get the most out of it and this is what I’ve found to be useful so far:

Use-case 1️⃣: Turning a ‘non-technical’ person into a technical person.

Right now, I’m building a search engine for Web3 jobs.

Working title: The “Google” of Web3 jobs.

(A bold project needed a bold title haha 😅)

I’m taking everything I’ve learnt from my Jobs newsletter and making the experience faster and more personalised with a simple search function that makes finding your dream Web3 job feel easy.

There are existing sites that use parts of the core functionality that I want, but as someone who is non-technical, I don’t understand the specifics of how they are built.

If there’s anything I’ve learnt about hiring developers, it’s that you can’t manage a project that you don’t deeply understand.

That’s where VoiceGPT comes in.

I’ve now spent multiple 45-minute sessions walking through the park,

Asking ChatGPT to walk me through how certain functionality works, the different ways to build it and elements of the project that make building it faster / slower, more expensive / less expensive.

The best part is that it remembers the entire conversation, and at the end when I ask it:

“Write me a brief for a Back-End Software Engineer based on what we’ve discussed.”

It can take the several hours of conversation that we’ve had and create a brief from it.

I’ve then been able to then go over this brief with a Software Engineer friend in my network and confirm that I’ve taken the correct approach.

🫵 How you can use this:

The next time you are building out a project, spend 30-45 minutes talking through the project as though you are asking advice from a consultant.

It will help you more deeply understand the project,

And then if you ever have a follow-up question or need to write a brief,

You won’t need to sit there thinking of how to explain your project and your needs,

It will already know and give you your answer immediately.

Use-case 2️⃣: Brainstorming Names, Article Ideas & More

ChatGPT on desktop has been an absolute game changer for brainstorming.

Whether it be names or article ideas,

Almost everyone has tested its brainstorming capabilities and seen that it can blast out 100+ ideas without breaking a sweat.

The issue I find with using desktop for this is that often we’ll see the ideas it generates…

None will really ‘hit’ what we’re after…

And we go back to the drawing board, trying to think things through as a human.

Voice solves these problems, and makes brainstorming 10x better.

📝 My workflow for brainstorming names

*Let’s say you’re trying to name a newsletter that you are launching

1. Firstly, your mindset is important. Go into the conversation thinking of ChatGPT as your really smart friend.

2. Ask it for 20 names inspired by [your inspiration].

3. It will give you 20 names. You then need to tell it the ‘3’ that you like and why, then ask it to give you 20 more names based on what you’ve told it.

4. Once I find a name that’s 90% perfect, I ask ChatGPT to give me a ‘brand story’ behind that name. (It then gives you a multi paragraph story).

5. I then ask it “Give me 20 more names, using the brand story that you’ve just given me as a prompt” (This locks in the theme, gives you the perfect prompt, and generates more names that you would have never thought of from your original starting point.)

6. I then repeat this process until I get the name that I am after. When I want to go broad, I ask it for more names based on simple aspects that I like from its examples, and when I want to be more specific I use this ‘brand story’ approach.

🫵 How you can use this:

The next time that you need to come up with brand names or content ideas, go for a walk and follow this process.

Use-case 3️⃣: “This is how I’m doing [task], is there a way to automate this or do it more efficiently?”

Every time I catch myself doing something repeatedly, I now whip out my phone and click the voice button.

I’ve found this to be most useful when doing work in Excel.

Recently I was manually entering a bunch of records from a PDF bank statement into a spreadsheet.

I knew this was a bad process, but I wasn’t sure of the most efficient way to get this done.

I asked ChatGPT,

And it walked me through how to extract the data all at once, despite it not being in the format that I needed.

With one prompt and a few minutes later, I saved what looked like hours of work ahead.

This question is now my go-to prompt for getting more done in less time.

🫵 How you can use this: 

The next time you find yourself doing a process that feels inefficient, but you’re not 100% sure of how to do it differently,

Take out your phone and say:

“This is how I’m doing [task], is there a way to automate this or do it more efficiently?”

🌿 Feel f*cking fantastic:

🏃‍♂️ Running vs Meditation for focus

Since taking a pause from Twitter, I’ve been taking more time to exercise than I previously have had time for.

Two weeks ago, I was spending some weekend time away with family, and there was a marathon being run in the neighbourhood.

As someone who normally exercises through basketball & weight training, I typically don’t find myself ‘going for a run’

But it’s funny when you see a marathon, it gets that voice in your head saying

‘I could do that’

So I started, and I was surprised at the results.

I’m not training for anything massive, I don’t have any goals with it.

But I was surprised to find that between 15-20 mins of running every day since then has made me feel clearer and have more energy when I’m at my desk.

I don’t overcomplicate things, I don’t buy expensive gear or track my runs with an Apple Watch,

But now whenever I feel mentally fatigued, I literally grab my shoes, head out the door, and do a lap of the local park at a pace that feels like I’m pushing myself.

If you’ve been overthinking exercise, and want to feel better in your daily life,

I highly recommend starting with a small run and gently pushing yourself.

10 mins per day is all you need to get started.

🧗 Started from the bottom now we’re here…

^{If you’re new here, one of the core principles of the content I share is that a newsletter is the most linear and simple business you can start in Web3. It has high sponsorship revenue and can go from being a side hustle to a full-time business in under a year. I am building this newsletter in public, to share the progress each week so that you can be a part of the journey. Now let’s get into it 👇}

This Week:
Subscribers: 3,564 (-12 Subscribers)
Open Rate: 41.0%

Tracking my goals:

🚂 Improve the graphic design of this newsletter: Paused until 4,000 subs.

🚂 3,564 / 4,000 Subscribers: This is one of my biggest steps backwards. Transparently, it’s never fun to see numbers go down. But, it’s been awesome to have more time to focus on core work during my 3 week break from Twitter. The benefits definitely outweigh the costs and I’m excited to get back out there and start growing soon.

✅ Update the welcome email for new subscribers: (Complete)

Keep grinding Legends 💪

— Alex

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