OpenAI’s President Greg Brockman just shared the best way to structure the perfect prompt.
The framework originally from Ben Hylak, is built on four key pillars:
1.Goal – Define what you want clearly.
2. Return Format – Specify exactly how you want the response structured.
3. Warnings – Highlight any important details the AI should double-check.
4. Context Dump – Provide background info to improve the response.
Explanation in this video.
Just so you know–
everything in the entire
universe is always about love.
And when it is not about love,
it’s about the absence of love.
Hope this makes sense.
– Unknown
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
– Mary Oliver
“The anditode to doom is curiosity.”
– Ezra Klein
“What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb?
What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born?
What if the the story of America is one long labor?”
– Valarie Kaur
More initiatives like this please!
This made me laugh: The maximum size of a PDF is not limited by the format itself, however, Adobe Acrobat imposes a limit of 15 million in by 15 million in, or 225 trillion in2 (145,161 km2)
Marginalia-Search is a search engine that prioritizes non commercial content. I love this so much!
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“All flourishing is mutual.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
The news cycle is already getting to my heart. It’s not even been 24h.
It’s time to protect my mental health. First step will be to curb the information I consume and how much time I spend on Instagram, Twitter and Threads.
I *loooooove* the internet. I have made countless friends and meaningful connections here. Yet, the current version of these digital gardens is hurting my mental health.
Here is my honest attempt to curb the time I spend mindlessly scrolling and instead create new habits.
Here’s a growing list of things I’ll try to do instead:
1. Grab a book
2. Text or call a loved one
3. Pull up a random Wikipedia page
4. Listen to an audiobook
5. Read a poem
6. Play a soothing game on my phone
7. Do a brief meditation and check in with my heart
8. Pet my dog
9. Go for a brisk quick walk
10. Do 5 squats (yeah right)
11. ________ <— your suggestion here
“It’s so freeing and beautiful in a way, to have a great failure. There’s nowhere to go but up.”
– David Lynch
I truly enjoyed this podcast episode with Icelandic president Halla Tómasdóttir. Halla joins Adam to discuss dealing with impostor syndrome, why leadership is worth the effort and how listening and asking questions can build trust with constituents and make you a stronger leader. The two also dig into the story behind Halla’s “scarf revolution,” Iceland’s history of solving problems with creativity and Halla’s approach to leading her campaign — and presidency — with optimism.
(Thank you Andee)
Loving this poster by Ryan Miller x Rainforest Trust. Ordered!
I love these minimal mini side tables by UNFNSHED. Paint them in whatever color matches your home and voila. Wishlisted!
Reposting this personal story from my Instagram Account as this resonated with so many of my followers.
Last month marked the anniversary of our adoption of a truly magical house. Her name is Finne.
She was built in the 1830s and from what we know was a loving and communal home to families in Salem NY. Then, a gentleman lovingly took her apart, piece by piece, labeling every beam and creating detailed instructions on how to rebuild her.
He listed her on Craigslist, hoping to find someone who will bring her back to life. He did. Cue Hudson Valley based builders Bex and Dave.
They drove their truck up and moved her three hours south. They schemed her rebirth and eventually started pouring her a foundation. They then poured a tremendous amount of love into her, expanding her original footprint. A year later they listed her for adoption, mid October of 2023.
That night, I was out for dinner with Tim and happened to see the listing pop up.
Just a few days earlier, I made the intention to buy a house upstate that could hold all of our grown-ish children and be a physical manifestation of our love. There she was!
I saw photos of Finne and gasped. I slid the phone over to Tim and he started reading the history of the house. Then he gasped.
The next day we were the first ones to see her. Before walking in, I told ‘my team up there’ that if this was my house, there better be a clear sign.
We walked in and were taken aback by Finne’s beauty. The original old wooden floors, stairs, exposed beams and extremely tasteful designed details all around.
We sat in the staircase for an hour, talking about life with the broker. On my final walk through of the house, I noticed a book on the nightstand, that was put there by the person who staged the house, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s one of my all time favorite books and I had started reading it for the 5th time two days prior. I chuckled. I hear you universe. I hear you loud and clear.
After a sleepless night, I spent a ridiculously long time writing a heartfelt offer letter to the sellers. Their broker responded with “Thanks. We have 6 showings this weekend and it will go to the highest bidder!”
My heart sank. I knew I could not participate in a bidding war. And I accepted the fact this might have been it. Onward!
The next morning, the weekend of the 6 showings, my broker calls me and said “The owners just read your letter and canceled all the showings. They accepted your offer and your application for neighborly friendship!”
Gasp! Tears were shed.
Fast forward legal schmegal. We closed on the house on 12/13/23 and have called her our home ever since.
Finne is gentle and majestic. She is wise but also silly. She loves to host and wrap guests in her warm energy. (Yes, houses have personality/soul!)
We love her so. But the biggest score of all is that we now call the humans who lovingly brought her back to life, Bex and Dave, our friends and neighbors.
The end.
Instead of my traditional start-of-the-year-birthday-intentions-post, I bring you this girl. May we all channel her energy and confidence in 2025.
(My intentions post for 2024 and 2023)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller
Need a bit of a break. Can’t go outside? Try One Minute Park.
I am excited for what the Fediverse promises: A diverse community of interconnected social platforms. More in this blog post about the open social web.
