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.
could you outsource it to a human being who worked for free?
restate in your own words what you think my goal is
For this outcome, what better method am I failing to request because I’m assuming the limits of how I previously worked?
My adaptation of Felix Rieseberg, How to be more ambitious
I want a deeper version of this task, not a bigger one. Establish what top practitioners actually do. Identify the raw material, methods and tools they would use, and what outside our own judgement would show the result is right. Rewrite my prompt around that.
Reworded from Shardul (@shardiban)
What is my best next question here?
Great! Now the same but with half the code
Don’t plan past the fog of war. Let’s resolve just the decisions at the frontier first.
come up with two fixes, the most brittle and the most durable. then implement the most durable
audit my development work in the last 24h, identify bottlenecks that slowed down my velocity, and propose improvements
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?
based on everything you know about me, if I had 10x the agency, what would I ask you
what version of myself would stop being true if I solved this differently?
Me
What is the smallest real thing that must exist, and who has touched it besides me?
Me, after Ronan Berder.
How can we pokayoke this error type so it never is introduced again
What would have to be true?
Roger Martin.
What would have to be true for this to be wrong?
Show me two apparently similar cases that you handled differently.
Me
What proof would make the team change the decision without needing to grant me special status?
Me