How I use AI when blogging and writing at andrewchen

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Hi visitors,

For many years, I have actually shared lessons and also suggestions from composing an expert blog site– formerly 10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned. Just recently, I have actually had some significant adjustments in my operations, and also wished to share more.

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Pre-AI blog writing workflow
My pre-AI operations for blogging– what I have actually been providing for over years– looks something similar to this:

• Have intriguing discussions at the office or with friends/colleagues
• Randomly grab my phone, and also e-mail myself the title of a post
  • These have punchy opinions/titles that broaden conveniently to post– some instances:
    • ” what requires to occur for web3 pc gaming to function”
    • ” lessons gained from introducing video games that relate to internet and also mobile applications”
    • ” why start-ups ought to disregard social media sites haterade”
    • etc
  • Recently, I have actually been utilizing this application, Email Me, which is opens up to a message box and also it’s a one-button send out (additionally wonderful for short articles to review later on, todo checklist products, and so on)
• Later, when I’m doing e-mail, I do either points:
  • If I’m determined, begin a post as soon as possible with the title
  • Or placed it right into my Notes application where I accumulate a lengthy checklist of 100+ titles that get on the backlog
• I typically compose on the weekend breaks and also attempt to do a complete essay in one rest– normally take 2-3 hours
• Very extremely seldom do I return and also evidence review or reword them (do not criticize me! I have actually been composing for hrs!)
• Usually the essays are set up to head out Monday/Tuesday early morning at 9am
• The day the blog post heads out, I do a light proof-read and afterwards once it heads out, I compose a tweetstorm guiding traffic

This entire procedure has actually offered me well for several years. Ultimately, there’s no genuine magic to it– 99% of the fight is taking a couple of hrs on Sundays to compose when there’s a numerous loads of e-mails that require to be returned, Netflix reveals to be viewed, and also video games I ought to be “investigating” for my work as a video games market financier.

Yet in the previous year, I have actually try out transforming my operations to include a variety of brand-new generative AI devices– especially ChatGPT. I wished to share some experiences with what it appears to be efficient, and also what it’s not.

Post-AI blog writing workflow
After ChatGPT was launched, I started to try out it in different methods– right here are a couple of methods where it’s worked.

First, composing from an empty web page is hard. Often it’s simpler to simply create an initial draft of something, also if it’s not fantastic, simply to obtain your innovative juices going. I could make use of a timely similar to this:

I’m composing a post regarding exactly how Gen Z eating much more video clip, playing video games, and also various other kinds of abundant and also interactive material will certainly imply that they will certainly review much less long-form message like papers and also publications. Create me an initial draft of a 5 paragraph essay that discovers this subject, however just make use of 2-3 sentences for the opening and also closing to make sure that it’s abrupt and also punchy. Be opinionated.

As well as ChatGPT returns something that type of make good sense? Yet checking out the outcomes much more carefully, it does not have instances and also story-telling, and also data or anything else. I do not such as Paragraph 3 right here, considering that it misses out on a chance to discuss just how much of YouTube is education and learning objectives, for instance. The writing is a little bit as well tight and also official, and also does not match my very own individual design.

As a whole, it’s simply not that excellent.

Yet after looking at a web page similar to this and also locating all the problems, I can after that repeat rather conveniently. I can place in a followup punctual to alter out Paragraph 3 and also link it to a various factor. Or I can simply begin modifying it and also revising it totally, and also also if at the end 90% of it is various, it’s still much better than beginning with an empty web page.

Thinking describes, checklists of subjects and also concerns, and also more
If ChatGPT is weak at real writing, where I discover it succeeds is as a non-judgmental brainstorming companion that does not care if you have dumb suggestions or if your writing is tiring. It’s very valuable for creating describes of post, making checklists of subjects, and also developing a lot of concerns you can respond to as ideas, and so on. In this usage instance, the AI does not need to have a 100% hit price on its material. If it produces checklists and also checklists of material, however 20% influences you in your real job, then that’s a success.

As an example, allow’s claim that you understand you intend to compose a post regarding chances to develop brand-new applications in virtual reality. You can ask something like:

I’m composing a post regarding brand-new application suggestions in virtual reality. What are 15 concerns that a person might ask me regarding this subject? Make them spicy, and also if handy, mention data to make the concerns much more interesting

It returns with a collection of concerns, some which are stupid and also boring– like the very first, one, which is simply asking what virtual reality applications will certainly work. Yet it additionally has a lot of intriguing ones on esports, material development, business training, and so on

You can additionally envision utilizing this as a quite handy device if you are making a brand-new podcast and also are speaking with visitors. Or if you intend to compose a brand-new essay that critiques some existing standard. (” Offer me 10 concerns from a person that is doubtful of of the worth of AI safety and security”). As well as as soon as you have an intriguing concern, it comes to be simple to ask it to lay out a whole article regarding it.

As an example, I frequently discover it valuable to compose triggers for describes defining details subjects and also suggestions.

Take the principle of K-12 education and learning and also virtual reality– can you compose a synopsis increasing on the pledge as well as additionally hesitation around this concept? Particularly discuss the principle of mixing enjoyable and also pc gaming and also discovering, as one of the factors. Produce 6 areas, and also placed 3 sub-bullets under each. Usage solid viewpoints and also ask difficult concerns.

I’ll leave it to a workout for the visitor, however the outcome is tolerable. It’s a good beginning factor.

ChatGPT functions fantastic for describes for lengthy type writing additionally. And also as a lot of you understand, I composed my publication 3 years earlier without the advantage of AI. Guide gets on network results, and also I wound up making a synopsis that acts in different phases, and also utilizes instances from famous technology firms. I can motivate ChatGPT with something similar to this:

Produce a synopsis for a publication on network results for mobile applications and also sites. Phase out the rundown to make sure that it begins on introducing an item from absolutely no, and also the problems there, versus the phases of scaling the item, after that striking market saturation. See to it you have the ability to weave in the problems dealing with network effects-driven items like social media networks, markets, dating applications, and also cooperation devices. Create a 10 area publication, with 3-5 sub-bullets. The very first sub-bullet in each area must constantly be an instance of a renowned technology business, like Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, Tinder, Slack, or others. Please make the extensive rundown for a publication concentrated on network results targeted at specialists operating in the technology industry

The result actually isn’t bad. It’s not the manner in which I composed it, considering that it begins to study each group of item as opposed to increasing on the wide principle. Yet once more, it’s not a negative beginning factor. I can conveniently have actually pictured utilizing this for conceptualizing and also prototyping objectives, repeating with various variations in defining the concept. It could have assisted me operate at even more of a theoretical degree in the very early months, without obtaining dragged right into the trivial matters of composing all the different sentences.

Clean-up– at the start, and also at the end
Finally, among the suggestions I have for people that are dealing with composing is to merely chat out their suggestions out loud. A few of us are frequently much more vocally wired, and also we will certainly link inconsonant suggestions and also make intriguing links when asked a concern, however flop when we’re simply looking at an empty message. The voice function in ChatGPT’s mobile application– as well as additionally items like Oasis AI— are intriguing because you can go stream of awareness on a subject, and also these items can cleanse them up considerably. The outcome isn’t that functional, IMHO, however you can after that go and also add/edit the outcome and also create it additionally.

It’s effective when you incorporate this with AI-generated describes. Simply offer ChatGPT a subject or even better, a viewpoint (” open resource items have negative customer UX!”) and also have it generate a synopsis of the debate. After that begin speaking with the debate, and also document it. Refine it in among the brand-new AI applications, and afterwards ascertain to message. After that modify from there.

The various other area where AI-driven clean-up can aid goes to completion, if you intend to make certain you seem specialist, or like a professional, and also not a pinhead. You can have ChatGPT reword material and also include a various tone. Or feed it some instances to mention and also develop off of. The capacity to tidy up suggestions and also textual material throughout and afterwards after the development circulation is all rather intriguing.

There’s a lot of points ChatGPT can not yet do
I’m thrilled for completely that generative AI will certainly aid the composing procedure. I discover sides to its abilities that will certainly quickly be attended to, I make certain. Yet right here are some noticeable ones that I discover constantly:

• I desire it to have all the information, as much as today (or in real-time), due to the fact that I desire it to make use of instances and also mention numbers that are as current as possible
• Some genAI devices can create pictures, which serves, considering that I intend to produce graphes and also numbers, illustrations of principles, and also also the little lead photo that rests on top of each essay
• It would certainly be perfect if it was attached to Twitter and also various other social media sites systems, to make sure that you can tweet out material conveniently– composing tweetstorms using AI would certainly be fantastic!
• I intend to educate it on a corpus of my very own writing, obviously, as well as additionally authors that I appreciate. Today it takes some job to personalize the intonation to what I want
• There’s information, files, and also various other details that I intend to feed right into ChatGPT, and afterwards have it use the material as component of its debates and also recommendations. Envision a regular job like, “hi, take this 10,000 word phase and also summarize it right into a 100 entrance tweetstorm” would certainly be extremely handy. Today it can not do that

There’s a whole lot even more to go right here, however it’s unbelievably encouraging.

When I’m blogging nowadays, no surprise I discover myself with WordPress open in one home window, and afterwards ChatGPT in the various other. As well as I discover myself rotating up brand-new conversations, duplicating and also pasting to and fro. It’s the very first time in 10+ years that I have actually located my operations considerably adjustment, and also I’m thrilled to see what occurs following.

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