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Chain of Thought

How I Built Spiral

Paying-subscriber benefit: My chat with Claude to write the code for our new prompt builder

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Chain of Thought

AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions

Navigating one-way-door decisions with a little prompting

Jul 26, 2024 by Dan Shipper

Napkin Math

Can Anyone Compete With Meta’s New AI Model?

Zuckerberg’s open-source gambit could burst the AI hype—or save it

1 🔒 Jul 25, 2024 by Evan Armstrong

Chain of Thought

Transcript: ‘Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything’

‘AI & I’ with the star podcaster

🔒 Jul 24, 2024 by Dan Shipper

Chain of Thought

🎧 Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything

How the star podcaster uses AI tools to compound his own intelligence

2 Jul 24, 2024 by Dan Shipper

Napkin Math

Vibes Are a Legitimate Economic Indicator

In her debut book, Kyla Scanlon makes the case for feeling the numbers

Jul 23, 2024 by Evan Armstrong

Also True for Humans

Why AIs Need to Stop and Think Before They Answer

How chain of thought works to get better responses

🔒 Jul 22, 2024 by Michael Taylor

Context Window

Creator-led Businesses and Virtual Reality’s Hard Reality

Plus: Write a book in 30 days with AI

Jul 21, 2024

Chain of Thought

Every’s Master Plan

Writing our way to a big business

5 Jul 19, 2024 by Dan Shipper

Napkin Math

A New Book of the Startup Bible

It’s the rare business book that you should actually read

5 Jul 18, 2024 by Evan Armstrong

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