The Psychology of Ambition

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Where Therapists Go for Therapy: Getting Sold on the Power of ChatGPT

Where Therapists Go for Therapy: Getting Sold on the Power of ChatGPT

The story of my 2 days working with Dan Shipper on the "Maximize your Mind with ChatGPT" course

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DALL-E prompt: “Can you create a title image that corresponds to this Substack article draft (and particularly represents the idea of a ‘new dot’ getting drawn on an exciting life journey)”

I believe what Steve Jobs said about how you “only connect the dots in retrospect,” but every once in a while, you know with unshakeable certainty that this moment you’re in right now is a massive new dot getting drawn. You don’t know exactly where you’ll go from here, or even what exactly to make of the experience, but you know it will have been a major inflection point on your timeline.

Last week I had such a moment. I had flown to New York to spend a couple of days with Dan Shipper, the co-founder and CEO of Every, with the goal of ideating on a new course for “leveling up your psychology with ChatGPT.” Dan is a writer, technologist, and major AI enthusiast. We’d gotten to know each other through our respective work and writing, and wanted to explore a shared interest in using LLMs for psychologic…

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