Getting started with AI (if you're overwhelmed)

8 tips for Smart Professionals to quickly see what's possible

My smartest friend has read a book a week since he was 12 years old.

He's now 46.

(Heck, he’s read Infinite Jest three times.)

He worked in high-frequency trading then started a crypto fund.

The other day, he confessed:

"I only use ChatGPT for search, I know I'm missing out. How can I get started?"

Here are 8 tips I gave him:

1. Pay for $20 for the best models

If you're only getting one, I recommend ChatGPT as it's more consumer-friendly and has more features.

If they want to be frisky, I say get Claude (which feels more like a friend).

2. Ask it to be your reading partner

Pick an older book (Crime and Punishment, Bhagavad Gita) and at the end of every chapter ask:

Play the role of a college literature professor and ask me 5 questions to reflect on what I just read.

3. Learn something new using Advanced Voice mode

There's gotta be some random topic you're interested in learning more.

The origins of neo-liberalism?

Why Next.js became so popular?

What's the relationship btw money and happiness?

On a w…