How Ideas Grow, How to Get Out of Your Own Way at Work, and More!

Hello and happy Sunday!

We're doing a lot of live and self-paced AI workshops for members these days. If that's your jam, we've got two offerings for you today:

Live Workshop: Fine Tuning AI on Your Favorite Writer’s Voice

Follow Dan step-by-step as he takes you through how to tune GPT-3 to write like your favorite writer. It starts live on Tuesday March 14th at 12 PM EST. Recordings will be available afterward.

Self-Paced Workshop: Great Writing with AI

Want to learn to write essays with AI? Take this 40-minute self-paced workshop, and work through hands on exercises to get up to speed.

Now, on to the articles!

Should I Quit and Start a Franchise?

As AI progresses, it's making white-collar workers redundant. In the face of this coming doom, Evan Armstrong has a plan—quit his job and start a Chick-fil-A franchise.

In this essay, Evan dives into the pros and cons of his radical plan, and calculates the economics of a future in chicken nugget slinging.

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How to Make AI Write Like Your Favorite Author

Most AI-assisted writing is bland and boring. In this week's Chain of Thought, Dan takes you on a step-by-step journey to teach you how to get AI to write like your favorite writer.

He goes through the whole process: from finding prompts that work to fine-tuning. By the end, you’ll have a richer understanding of how to push generative AI models in new directions, and how to add more depth and flavor to your own writing.

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How Ideas Grow

Nathan Baschez / Divinations

Nathan Baschez believes that our decisions are determined by the narratives we believe in. He argues that if you want to make ambitious and original goals, you need to develop world-class narrative skills.

In How Ideas Grow, Nathan dives into the meta-concept of how these narratives spread—so that you can understand why popular stories tend to become even more popular. He explains how to use this knowledge to get your own ideas out into the world and build their own network effects.

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How to Get Out of Your Own Way at Work

Getting in the zone at work can be a challenge, but learning how to get out of your own can make your zone more available.

Michael Ashcroft combines insight from The Inner Game of Work and mindfulness practices to explore how we can better notice and avoid getting in our own way.

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Worldview Drift

Ever felt like you’re stuck in someone else's narrative about what a meaningful life should look like? That's what Casey Rosengren calls “worldview drift”—the unintentional and uncritical adoption of another person or culture's ideas.

In this essay, he provides a framework for recognizing and understanding how worldviews shape our lives—so that we can be more intentional about which ones we'll adopt.

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Recommended Links

• Watch Evan speak at Rethink the Future