Opening Up

Interesting Reads

Using ChatGPT Custom Instructions for Fun and Profit
Dan Shipper shares how to 10x ChatGPT with personalized answers, by making use of custom instructions. Custom instructions allow you to provide ChatGPT with background information on who you are and how you want it to interact with you. This personalizes the responses you receive.

In the biological info section, tell ChatGPT about your goals, interests and other relevant details about yourself and your life.

Use the response style section to set preferences for how you want ChatGPT to communicate with you, like asking clarifying questions or nudging you towards self-improvement.

What Makes A Strategy Great?
A great strategy is not just a plan or wishful thinking—it's a roadmap to winning, and it holds these characteristics:

1. Simple: Simplifies complexity, making it manageable and actionable

2. Candid: Confronts difficult realities

3. Decisive: Asserts clear decisions and accepts their consequences

4. Leveraged: Leverages strengths to create durable competitive advantage

5. Asymmetric: Upside > downside

6. Futuristic: Solves for the long-term

Real Conversation Questions
Great conversations questions designed to spark conversations on a deeper level. Here are a few picks:

• What would constitute a perfect day for you?

• What brings you joy?

• What life experience made you grow the most?

• If you could gain any quality or ability, what would it be?

Time’s 200 Best Inventions of 2023
200 innovations changing how we live in terms of innovation, accessibility and impact. Some really cool stuff here.

Learning

How To Land At A Fast-Paced Startup
Landing your first job with a startup can be daunting. Wes Kao offers her top tips for those wanting to apply for a job at a startup or simply learn more about what it takes to be successful.

Some that really resonated:

• Embrace take-home projects as an opportunity to demonstrate your skills and thought process. Pick a medium you're comfortable with, show your work, and try to address the underlying questions behind the project.

• Prove you can do the job: Produce proof of work, aka evidence that you have done it through side projects and activities that showcase your abilities, like starting a newsletter or hosting events. This helps establish credibility.

• Embrace being hands-on: You'll likely need to execute on strategy yourself rather than only doing high-level thinking. Show you can take ideas to reality with little support.

19 Great Newsletter Pages You Can Learn From
Best practices for creating an effective landing page that will entice potential subscribers to sign up, and great examples to borrow from. Remember that you always need to include compelling copy that explains the value of the newsletter and elements such as social proof, details about the frequency of the newsletter, as well as a sample!

How To Discover New Music
Feel like you’re stuck listening to the same genre and want to broaden your music taste? This article shares advice on how you can discover new tunes.

Resources & Tools

Taste - Movie and TV recommendations, tailored to your taste. The algorithm recommends you things to discover based on what you’ve already watched.

Ad Speedup - Chrome extension that helps automatically speed-up ads on videos to save time.

Clozemaster - Gamified language learning in context, for intermediate level learners. I found this to be way superior to Duolingo when practicing my Spanish.

Brain Snacks

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Take A Brain Break

Seamless - A website that humorously mocks the overly complicated procedure of signing up for a new account online. This had me in tears.

Internet Artifacts - A digital museum dedicated to the history of internet. ARPA, websites, videos and fun old internet things.

Learn Morse Code - A web app that teaches you morse code, in a fun way.

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