Most product time goes to the unglamorous middle — the setup, the second draft, the review. The right prompt quietly takes that part off your plate.
Generate options, not answers
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
Cut before you polish
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
Make the output reviewable
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.