Inside the Podcast: How to Harness the Internet to Find Your Next Big Idea

Thank you to everyone who is watching or listening to my podcast, How Do You Use ChatGPT? If you want to see a collection of all of the prompts and responses in one place, Every contributor Rhea Purohit is breaking them down for you to replicate. Let us know in the comments if you find these guides useful. —Dan Shipper

Sometimes I get lost going down internet rabbit holes. 

While writing a piece based on Tyler Cowen’s interview on How Do You Use ChatGPT?, I found myself feverishly scrolling through the scanned pages of a 1979 book to find the author’s claim that a computer would never beat a human chess champion. All because Cowen said that watching AI play chess sparked his enthusiasm for the technology. (I found the answer on the second paragraph on page 675, in case you were wondering.)

The anecdotes I find at the deep end of internet rabbit holes rarely make it to the final version of the article. In fact, the further I dive, the less cognizant I am of how relevant these anecdotes are to what I’m writing about. Rabbit holes are useful, but I struggle to emerge with a good sense of what I find there.

In a recent episode of How Do You Use ChatGPT?, Dan Shipper and Steph Smith did just that—they dove down internet rabbit holes and came back with valuable nuggets of information. More specifically, they use the internet to vet ideas for new businesses.