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Prompt engineering prompts

Meta-prompts, accuracy modes, system setups. Prompts about prompting, for people who have noticed it matters.

• creative Explain the Aesthetic Choices Behind a Work to Someone Unfamiliar With the Medium

  Translate what you know about your medium into something someone else can feel.

• work Critique a Work Process Your Team Has Always Done the Same Way

  Find out if the team process is still doing its job or just taking up time.

• learn Explain How a Specific AI Tool Differs From What Most People Think It Does

  Find out what a specific AI tool is actually doing versus what you assumed.

• self Critique the Story You Tell About Why You Are the Way You Are

  Check whether your origin story is describing you or excusing you.

• learn Generate a Reading and Research Strategy for a Complex Topic You Need to Understand Quickly

  Build working knowledge of a complex topic as fast as possible without getting lost in it.

• self Explain What You Actually Want From the Next Phase of Your Life

  Get clear on what you actually want rather than what you think you should want.

• creative Compare Screen and Page Versions of a Story

  Learn what the book and the film each do that the other cannot.

• play Critique a Wargaming Army List

  Find the actual weaknesses in your list before an opponent does.

• creative Critique a First-Person Voice for Consistency

  Find where your narrator stops sounding like themselves.

• learn Design an Expert-Level Prompt Engineering System Prompt

  Design a production-grade system prompt with scope, format, and edge cases built in.

• work Critique a Strategic Plan for What It Avoids Saying

  Find what the strategy document is not saying before the assumptions become commitments.

• work Translate a Set of Business Metrics Into Strategic Implications

  Read the metrics as a story about where the business is going, not just where it has been.

• money Translate a Company Annual Report Into Three Investment Questions

  Read an annual report like an analyst rather than a press release recipient.

• money Critique Your Investment Approach for Systematic Biases

  Find the cognitive biases in your investing before the market finds them for you.

• learn Translate a Statistical Concept Someone Is Misusing

  Correct the statistical concept before it propagates into a bad decision.

• learn Decide Which Skill to Learn Next to Maximise Career Leverage

  Choose the next skill to develop based on leverage rather than interest alone.

• creative Reframe Creative Block as Information About What the Work Needs

  Read the creative block as a signal from the work rather than a failure of motivation.

• work Translate a Board Report Into the Strategic Decisions It Actually Requires

  Pull the decisions out of a board report before the meeting where no one makes them.

• work Explain a Technical Architecture Decision to Non-Technical Stakeholders

  Explain the technical decision to the people who will fund or block it.

• work Critique a Product Strategy Document for Strategic Coherence

  Find the holes in a product strategy before leadership does.

• money Critique an Investment Approach for Cognitive Bias

  Identify the cognitive bias that is probably costing you money before it becomes obvious.

• work Plan a Cross-Functional Project Kickoff That Actually Works

  Design a cross-functional kickoff that produces alignment rather than attendance.

• work Plan a Cost-Reduction Programme That Does Not Hollow the Organisation

  Cut costs without accidentally cutting the things that make the organisation work.

• life Map What a Long-Term Relationship Needs Right Now

  Get an honest read on what a long-term relationship needs right now, in the short term and the medium term.

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