Dan Shipper, AI entrepreneur, discusses the benefits of applying personal life habits to work and using custom instructions to enhance AI interactions and decision-making. The chapter also explores the value of paying for a chat GPT subscription, the potential of Whisper and Every Language software, and the decision to spin out an AI writing app called Lex. They also discuss the future possibility of AI reading books for humans and the importance of writing in the era of AI.

Dan Shipper, AI expert, discusses using AI for negotiating with vendors, compressing information, understanding dense books, and more. The podcast explores starting with AI, navigating capability blindness, and enhancing reading skills with AI assistance.

Jim talks with Dan Shipper about practical uses of GPT-3 and ChatGPT at the personal scale. They discuss how Dan started playing with these tools, the feeling of new generative AIs, GPT-3 vs ChatGPT, writing a screenplay using ChatGPT, using GPT-3 to analyze journal entries, circumventing the context window limitation, GPT-3 as a journaling tool, how ChatGPT does embedding, the coming market for chatbot personas, the value of guardrails, the monetary cost of using GPT-3, solving the organizational problems of note-taking, Stephen Reid's knowledge-graph of this podcast, the invention of the graphic web browser & the frozen accidents of HTTP & HTML, meta-prompts & data pipelines, how Yohei Nakajima eliminates repetitive tasks using LLMs, and much more. Episode Transcript Chain of Thought (Every) "Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future?", by Dan Shipper GPT Index LangChain "Chat GPT 'DAN' (and other 'Jailbreaks')" Character.AI JRS Knowledgegraph, by Stephen Reid Dan Shipper is the CEO and co-founder of Every, a daily newsletter on business, AI, and personal development read by almost 75,000 founders, operators, and investors. Previously he was the CEO and co-founder of Firefly, an enterprise software company that he sold to Pegasystems. He writes a weekly at column at Every called Chain of Thought where he covers AI, tools for thought, and the psychology of work.

Get $400 off your early-bird ticket to Sponsor Games, my first in-person event to help you get more brand deals: https://www.sponsorgames.comToday we’re talking about Newsletters and whether they should be FREE or PAID.Get $50 off your Craft + Commerce ticket: https://conference.convertkit.comBig thanks to ConvertKit for sponsoring this episode!You might be thinking, newsletters, “what are we in 1999, are you using AOL dial-up Internet, how big is your beanie baby collection? Don’t look now I think your tamagotchi just died, better go cry to your newsletter!”You couldn’t be more wrong!Newsletters are back, baby! And they’re especially important unless you like risking the entire future of your business on the whims & fancies of those sadistic social media algorithms.Anyway, even though the idea of making some extra dough with a paid newsletter sounds nice, I have some concerns and I’m pretty confused about which direction to take my newsletter which is why I asked two experts here to settle this debate, once and for all. Nathan Barry, is a creator, author, designer, AND the founder of ConvertKit, an email marketing provider that powers the audiences of over 500,000 creators, including my own! Full disclosure, ConvertKit is a sponsor of this podcast but they had absolutely no editorial control over this episode.Dan Shipper, on the other hand, is an entrepreneur and writer focusing on AI, tools for thought, and the psychology of work. Dan is also the Co-Founder and CEO or Every, a bundle of newsletters and podcasts trusted by 60,000 curious business people.  So by the end of this episode, you’ll know: 1. Whether there and RIGHT And WRONG times in your creator journey to consider charging for your newsletter2. How to know what content to charge for and what to give away for free3. Who is a better Creator Debater: Nathan or Dan?Who won this Creator Debate? Vote here: Follow our guest 👇Nathan BarryConvertkit - https://convertkit.comWebsite - https://nathanbarry.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/nathanbarryDan ShipperWebsite - https://every.toTwitter - https://twitter.com/danshipperJoin 23K+ creators getting paid sponsorship opportunities every week: https://creatorwizard.com/join👇  Creator Wizard Affiliates 👇Claim your free ConvertKit account: https://convertkit.com?lmref=NjtOPgCreate a digital course using Thinkific: https://try.thinkific.com/dil41ce876v3Claim your free Restream account: https://restream.grsm.io/creatorwizardClaim your free TubeBudy account: https://www.tubebuddy.com/creatorwizardCamera: https://amzn.to/2Zc8gFGDSLR monitor: https://amzn.to/3psgt3zCamlink (to use camera as webcam): https://amzn.to/2ZcHInTLED Panel Lights: https://amzn.to/3po9Z5IMic: https://amzn.to/3G3eWqxMixer: https://amzn.to/3UFpaUOWanna collaborate or work together?Shoot us a note: inquiries@creatorwizard.com

Dan Shipper, Co-founder of Every, discusses the evolution from business newsletters to a daily essay on tech, AI, and productivity. He shares insights on entrepreneurial spirit, AI focus, launching a podcast, and chatGPT. Topics include the challenges of media companies, balancing writing with business, and the power of AI in creativity and productivity.