A collection of prompts that change how I see a task, a constraint, or the next move. I’ve kept the original wording and linked the sources.
I want a deeper version of this task, not a bigger one. Before rewriting it: (1) say what a top professional in this field would do here that I’m not asking for. If you are lacking even a bit of clarity on what a top professional would do here (you likely are), then let’s pull information from the top oracles in this field. Let’s read and digest all of the information so we have a good understanding of what and how a top professional in this field would think; Then, and only then, (2) name the rawest material they would start from instead of what has already been digested for me; (3) name the specific methods and tools they would use; (4) say what, other than you or me, would show the result is right. Then rewrite my prompt to ask for exactly that.
The cost of tokens is negligible, feel free to consume and use as many tokens as you see fit to get the task done to match ORO’s high quality bar..
Source: Shardul (@shardiban)
The review exists so leadership catches problems early and moves money and people to the right places. Design a better way to do that than a quarterly deck, show from our own history that it would have caught things sooner, and run it beside the current one for a quarter.
Source: Felix Rieseberg, How to be more ambitious
could you outsource it to a human being who worked for free?
Source: Gwern Branwen, Useful Outsourcing Is Hard
What is my best next question here?
Source: Callum
restate in your own words what you think my goal is
Source: lauren (@poteto)
Great! Now the same but with half the code
Source: Julik Tarkhanov
Don’t plan past the fog of war. Let’s resolve just the decisions at the frontier first.
Source: Matt Pocock
come up with two fixes, the most brittle and the most durable
then implement the most durable
Source: Alex Hillman
If you could hand off your entire operation to a clone of yourself, trusting them to manage it skillfully and enthusiastically, what would you like to do next?
Source: Visakan Veerasamy
based on everything you know about me, if I had 10x the agency, what would I ask you
Source: Jonny Miller
Have my tools delivered the life I wanted them to make possible?
Source: My notes.
what version of myself would stop being true if I solved this differently?
Source: My notes.
What proof would make the team change the decision without needing to grant me special status?
Source: My notes.
What is the smallest real thing that must exist, and who has touched it besides me?
Source: My notes, after Ronan Berder.
Show me two apparently similar cases that you handled differently.
Source: My notes.
What would have to be true?
Source: Roger Martin.
What would have to be true for this to be wrong?
Source: Josh Defilippi
How can we pokayoke this error type so it never is introduced again
Source: Nate Berkopec