Class Overview
During this session, we:
Explored the "download" phase - capturing unconscious ideas through transcripts
Created visual content - turning articles into New Yorker-style cartoons
Applied infinite prompting - generating unlimited creative expressions of concepts
Discovered perspective mapping - analyzing ideas through dozens of academic lenses
Practiced full spectrum expression - communicating through visuals, metaphors, stories
Built multi-perspective analysis systems - enriching ideas with diverse viewpoints
Learned cartoon creation techniques - using AI for visual storytelling
Examined relativity principles - understanding how perspective shapes reality
Developed synthesis methods - combining insights from multiple academic disciplines
Shared breakthrough experiences - real-time application of infinite prompting tools
AI-Generated Podcast Summary Of The Class
RECORDING RESOURCES
Classes In The AI Blockbuster Track
Prompts Mentioned in Class
Presentation Slides
Class Transcript
Resources Shared
AI Timestamps
AI Chapter Summaries
Chat Transcript
Watch Other Classes In The AI Blockbuster Track
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Articles By Michael
I Spent 200+ Hours Collecting The Top 35 Resources On Perspectiving So You Become An Idea Machine
5 Lessons Learned From The Frontier Of The Information Singularity
The Information Singularity: 5 Stages of AI Overwhelm and How to Master Them
Articles & Content By Others
Tools
AI Timestamps
Introduction & Course Overview (00:00:00 - 00:04:33)
Pre-mortem Exercise & Common Challenges (00:04:33 - 00:05:35)
Download Phase - Ideas & Tools Overview (00:05:35 - 00:08:36)
Student Victories & Tool Sharing (00:08:36 - 00:17:28)
Full Spectrum Thinking & Mental Models (00:17:28 - 00:31:33)
Visual Expression & AI Cartoons (00:31:33 - 00:37:05)
Enriching Ideas Through Perspectives (00:37:05 - 00:52:15)
AI Perspective Analysis & Enrichment (00:52:15 - 01:22:45)
System Organization & Third Brain Concepts (01:22:45 - 01:32:00)
Closing Thoughts & Next Steps (01:32:00 - 01:54:03)
AI Chapter Summaries
Introduction & Course Overview (00:00:00 - 00:04:33)
Michael welcomes participants to the final AI blockbuster class of the first module, focusing on content creation workflows. He explains the course's intention to help participants quickly get into content creation and then improve their output throughout the year using AI. The session covers the module he has the most experience with and has been thinking about extensively.
Pre-mortem Exercise & Common Challenges (00:04:33 - 00:05:35)
Michael conducts a "pre-mortem" exercise, asking participants to imagine themselves a year from now not creating content or not meeting quality expectations, then identify what went wrong. Participants share challenges including finding the right audience, accountability issues, overwhelm, procrastination, and routine reluctance to post. Michael identifies patterns around message resonance, overwhelm, and procrastination.
Download Phase - Ideas & Tools Overview (00:05:35 - 00:08:36)
Michael introduces the "download" phase of content creation, using the metaphor of being "pregnant with ideas" from life experiences and stories that can be combined infinitely. He explains how to capture and organize ideas through journals, transcripts from coaching calls, voice memos, and various tools including Claude Voice, Whisper transcription tools, phone call recording, and Zoom transcript tools like Granola.
Student Victories & Tool Sharing (00:08:36 - 00:17:28)
Students share their successes with the download phase. John Kelly mentions using Glasp for YouTube video transcripts. Bonnie discusses using ChatGPT for journaling conversations and being more selective about context for long-term memory. Kristen shares excitement about using the infinite prompt for her workbook, generating extensive content and ideas. Other tools mentioned include Turboscribe for translations and various transcription services.
Full Spectrum Thinking & Mental Models (00:17:28 - 00:31:33)
Michael explains his approach to idea generation, emphasizing the need for multiple ideas (10 mediocre ideas for 1 good one, 10 good ideas for 1 blockbuster). He discusses cognitive biases like availability bias and sunk cost bias, and the importance of sharing ideas in different ways. He demonstrates how different expression methods (quotes, paragraphs, metaphors, teaching vs. writing) change how we perceive our own ideas.
Visual Expression & AI Cartoons (00:31:33 - 00:37:05)
Michael demonstrates how AI can transform written ideas into visual formats like cartoons and images. He shows examples of turning an article about information singularity into different visual styles (New Yorker cartoons, surreal art combining Escher and Dali). Participants experiment with creating cartoons from their ideas using simple prompts, with Michael emphasizing the goal of seeing ideas differently through visuals.
Enriching Ideas Through Perspectives (00:37:05 - 00:52:15)
Michael introduces the concept of multiple perspectives, showing Hillary Diane's relativity video demonstrating how reality appears different from different reference frames. He emphasizes that everyone's individual experiences pale compared to humanity's collective knowledge, and explains how combining personal experience with research and multiple perspectives creates stronger, more interesting ideas. He demonstrates various perspective exercises and optical illusions.
AI Perspective Analysis & Enrichment (00:52:15 - 01:22:45)
Michael presents an "Infinite Prompt" for enriching ideas through multiple academic and cultural perspectives. Students experiment with the prompt, which analyzes ideas from various disciplines, time periods, and reasoning methods to create a "wisdom of crowds" effect. Participants share experiences with the overwhelming but exciting results, and Michael provides strategies for managing information abundance and filtering options.
System Organization & Third Brain Concepts (01:22:45 - 01:32:00)
Discussion turns to organizing prompts and creating AI systems. Students share approaches including John Kelly's AI parenting clone, Danny's modular prompt design with atomic components, and Zain's taxonomy system organized by audience, time of day, and time horizons. Tools mentioned include Notion databases, Abacus, and various prompt organization methods. The concept of building personalized AI relationships is explored.
Closing Thoughts & Next Steps (01:32:00 - 01:54:03)
Michael wraps up by connecting the session to the overall workflow (Download → Enrich → Draft → Revise → TK system). Students share key takeaways including full spectrum thinking, the relativity of reality, and new ways of expressing ideas. Michael announces a week off, discusses balancing overwhelm with practical application, and shares plans for future automation tools and community features. The session ends with participants sharing their intentions for the break week.
Chat Transcript
00:01:03 Janet Ridsdale: Morning
00:01:19 Jonathan Hughes: Greetings all. Back on the computer with no camera today.
00:01:40 Marcin Podolski: Hello AI Thought Leaders
00:01:46 Michael Glenn: I apparently am not getting audio...
00:01:56 leandra williams: I can hear
00:02:00 leandra williams: Check your zoom settings
00:02:50 Kristin van Tilburg: Striking the right chord with my audience
00:03:30 Kevin Whitcher: Really prosaic, but routine is a challenge for me. No reluctance to post, simply disorganised temporally and mentally
00:03:45 John Lester: letting life get in the way / FOMO / SBO syndrome
00:04:01 Jonathan Hughes: Replying to "Really prosaic, but ..."
I second this.
00:04:01 Marcin Podolski: management of the whole workflow system&data in pretty automated way what I wanted to do. It is a bit overwhelming for me and stops me
00:04:09 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "Really prosaic, but ..."
Starting to use AI to try and address this!
00:04:30 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "Really prosaic, but ..."
Using it as an accountability partner
00:04:33 Jonathan Hughes: I'm a great starter, not so good at finishing.
00:04:35 Don S: Finding the right audience with which the message resonates.
00:04:46 Bonnie J.: Premortem: if something has gone wrong, it could be that I didn’t devote enough time to it, that I chose the safer path and got bored with it, or that I didn’t make it accessible enough.
00:04:48 Janet Ridsdale: Choosing one lane that will bring my audience along
00:05:16 John Kelly: Late - trying to rise above the noise - focus - maybe gaining the clarity to build the Meaning Why to do it
00:05:17 leandra williams: Similar to @Kevin Whitcher, feeling a bit mentally disorganized, but I think it’s simply overthinking and creating unnecessary pressure for myself.
00:05:25 Michael Glenn: Audio works on my phone but just suddenly stopped working on my laptop 🤷♂️
At least I have my phone
00:05:47 Marcin Podolski: Replying to "Finding the right au..."
use a method of Russell Brunson. Choose an audience resonates with you and you'd love to cooperate with
00:06:07 Shannon: Nice image!!!!
00:06:37 Ram Iyer (www.MiTRamiyer.com): The trouble with thought leadership is that thoughts evolve. But... readers want a sequential bunch of posts they can follow - they can't jump around as your thoughts jump around! That's a constant challenge
00:06:55 Dani Trusca: I gained clarity on what I want to focus on:
Modular Prompt Design -- I want to develop it as a discipline
Prompt Analysis
Prompt Optimization
Promptification -- Turning insights, tools, and systems into prompts for activation.
Modular Prompt Design for Intelligence Amplification -- this is the ultimate goal
Prompt Design for Cultivation of Wisdom -- Systemic prompt stacks that debug cognition.
Prompt Design for Experience Design -- creating experiences
I need to focus on execution. I have too many ideas.
I also want to develop the ability to craft virality.
00:07:23 leandra williams: Replying to "I gained clarity on ..."
Promptification!!! I love this!
00:07:32 Michael Simmons: https://notis.ai/
00:07:47 Michael Simmons: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NU6zNHIJZBfv3hlcUKrOSnT0cqrPTJ2vhDj3oup0SP0/edit?tab=t.whnv33ce7je8
00:07:53 John Kelly: Reading reviews from books on your topic - collecting what they liked and what was missing.
00:08:16 Michael Simmons: WisperFlow or Whisper Transcription
00:09:27 Bonnie J.: Not a new tool, but I’ve started giving ChatGPT little updates on things I’m thinking or excerpts from my journal and having some helpful conversations with it, which I wasn’t doing before.
00:09:33 John Kelly: Glasp - summaries of Youtube videos
00:09:40 Kristin van Tilburg: Using the infinite prompt to unbelievable advantage…so much amplification of thoughts and ideas.
00:09:43 Shannon: Using voice notes/apple notes to capture vs piece of notes all over the place
00:09:51 Evzen Cekota: I use turbo scribe for transcripts, translations and also super rapid transcripts of podcasts and youtube
00:11:09 John Kelly: Reacted to "Using the infinite p..." with 🚀
00:11:25 faythebuchanan: Wondering if its a good idea to try to make prompts hypnotic, or is that hazardous?
00:11:43 leandra williams: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
Ooh! I’m curious to know how you’re thinking about this.
00:12:06 Rad Co (@radrad): I am now using ChatGPT not as an answer bank but a question bank —meaning that instead of it giving me answers, i instead am being asked more questions.
The Blindspot Documentis helping immensely.
Now I’m working on digging deeper in infinite prompting.
00:12:29 faythebuchanan: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
I’m trained in hypnosis, and prompts would be more powerful with some of those strategies, but would that influence some people too much?
00:13:18 John Kelly: Gearing up Notion to help store/Retrieve topic instantly (2nd brain stuff - )
00:14:15 Marcin Podolski: Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
I use Ray Dailo wisdom "The true power is to manage not what U know, but what u don't know". So pretty the same what u do
00:15:18 faythebuchanan: @Kristin, so well put!
00:16:12 John Kelly: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
@faythebuchanan Michael knows the NLP guru who said, 'Everything is hypnosis' - AND if you truly believe in what you're doing it's your responsibility to help as many as possible imho.
00:17:15 Michael Glenn: Replying to "Gearing up Notion ..."
second brain is so amazing! I love the whole process
00:17:20 Marcin Podolski: Infinite devotion
00:17:24 Bonnie J.: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
I would love to try a hypnotic prompt.
00:17:50 faythebuchanan: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
I’m planning to create some and see what happens.
00:17:55 Dani Trusca: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
I want go deep into this idea.
00:17:58 leandra williams: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
I would love to try a hypnotic prompt. I think it’s probably more about the user.
00:18:08 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
Yeah! The blindspot locator is amazing 🙂
00:18:27 Marcin Podolski: Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
Awesome
00:18:36 Ram Iyer (www.MiTRamiyer.com): it is very easy to get caught up esoteric thought leadership. You need readers for all your wonderful thoughts. It makes sense to have a discussion about that FIRST REQUIREMENT - to build your tribe, even gradually
00:18:42 Evzen Cekota: https://turboscribe.ai/
00:19:42 faythebuchanan: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
The challenge is, if someone is really hypnotizable, the prompt could have too much impact.
00:19:46 John Kelly: Reacted to "second brain is so a..." with 👍🏻
00:20:09 Rad Co (@radrad): What’s a good mental framework to combat these biases?
00:20:26 Michael Glenn: Replying to "What’s a good men..."
That is the million dollar question
00:20:38 Bonnie J.: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
@faythebuchanan Is that a danger with traditional hypnosis and is that something that the practitioner leading the session needs to notice and compensate for?
00:21:08 Evzen Cekota: Replying to "What’s a good mental..."
I think „murder your darlings“ may work - a technique writers use
00:21:09 Dani Trusca: Firefox added a brilliant feature: you can see two instances of AI in the browser at the same time.
One usage tip: You can see 2 instances of the same thread at the same time: one as table of contents, for scrolling, the other for the conversation focus.
This is also perfect for my fractal messaging system: one for the main thread, one for a parallel thread.
00:21:16 John Lester: Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
@Rad Co (@radrad) What is the Blindspot Documentis?
00:21:23 Janet Ridsdale: yup
00:21:24 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "What’s a good mental..."
Even distinguishing when to leave a stale idea or when to stick with it .. 🙂
00:21:59 faythebuchanan: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
I use Eriksonian hypnosis and NLP, always careful to know the client/audience. Yes, always an awareness and responsibility.
00:22:07 Don S: Replying to "What’s a good mental..."
Nudge is a valuable book that addresses biases.
00:22:10 Dani Trusca: Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
I integrate this in the process of wisdom cultivation. I want to develop a systematic way of debugging human cognition.
00:22:43 leandra williams: Replying to "firefox dual view.png"
This is perfect!!! I use two monitors at home so just having the one when I’m on my laptop is heartbreaking. 😂
00:22:59 Marcin Podolski: what tool do u recommend to visualize ideas through diagrams, models, visulazing processes etc.?
00:24:09 Bonnie J.: I really relate to the treadmill. 🙂
00:24:24 leandra williams: Replying to "I really relate to t..."
Very much so!
00:24:46 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
@John Lester I just have a copy of it 🙂
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17C9vFU0w3EaYqCNDg3x6JY8RETHp_4Hlv5L-4gOOPsM/edit?usp=sharing
00:24:46 faythebuchanan: It has many layers!
00:24:56 Michael Glenn: Learning to use AI is making me think differently in my own mind and I do believe it's making me smarter
00:25:00 Zain Haseeb: Replying to "Firefox added a bril..."
How do you do this, what is the feature called?
00:25:01 Ram Iyer (www.MiTRamiyer.com): You must like the MATRIX!
00:25:23 Michael Simmons: New Yorker single-panel
Ligne Claire (Hergé/Joost Swarte)
Mid-Century Modern
Editorial Manga / Storyboard
00:25:29 Dani Trusca: I love this. Another direction I want to explore is prompt design for humor (relates to my interest in experience design).
00:25:38 Don S: Replying to "what tool do u recom..."
MindNode is good for one category of diagrams.
00:25:59 Michael Simmons: Create a New Yorker style cartoon that aligns with one of the key ideas from the attached draft.
00:26:38 Michael Simmons: Share another cartoon that expresses the same idea but in a very different way.
00:27:44 Michael Simmons: Replying to "what tool do u recom..."
I love mindmeister and Vizzlo. Have been a paying customer for each for many years
00:27:51 John Lester: Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
Thank you!
00:28:04 Dani Trusca: Replying to "Firefox added a bril..."
It was an automatic Firefox update, so you should already have it. There's now a vertical menu on the left side of the browser. Click on the ChatGPT symbol in that menu.
00:28:19 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "I am now using ChatG..."
@John Lester you're welcome 🙂 happy to help!
00:28:22 Michael Simmons: Replying to "I love this. Another..."
Yesterday’s session on Augmented Awakening was all about play and humor and absurdity with AI. I can’t remember if you were there.
00:29:12 Michael Simmons: Replying to "firefox dual view.png"
@leandra williams Same! I’m thinking about getting a third where I put all of my infinite prompts that are thinking.
00:29:21 Michael Glenn: So wild
00:29:57 Michael Simmons: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
Faythe - Hypnotic prompts could be a fascinating sub-category of prompting that I could see a lot of people being interested in.
00:30:30 Michael Glenn: Replying to "ms cartoon 11June2..."
That's really cool!
00:31:25 faythebuchanan: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
Thanks, I wouldn’t want them to be misused.
00:31:57 Rad Co (@radrad): Tried it with anti fragle
00:32:58 Wendy McNeeley: Replying to "Wondering if its a g..."
Interesting one, John! I can just imagine the content you put into it
00:33:44 Kevin Whitcher: Iteration 1 - subject matter doesn’t really lend itself to immediate humour! (Mind - body connection for good health)
00:33:48 Dani Trusca: I tried doing one from a thread.
00:33:51 Rad Co (@radrad): Dumb question but where is the “attached draft”?
00:33:52 John Kelly: Link to cartoon: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6849a1b70dd8819180623591f806b599
00:34:08 Rad Co (@radrad): Oh I see, awesome. 🙂
00:34:27 John Kelly: Replying to "Link to cartoon: htt..."
“I stopped checking the weather—now I just monitor the existential dread patterns.”
00:34:37 Rad Co (@radrad): Studio Ghibli of 10,000 hour rule 🙂
00:35:32 Michael Glenn: Replying to "Screenshot2025_06_..."
That's so cool!
00:36:24 Michael Simmons: Pick a category of visuals (eg, cartoon, meme, cover image)
Prompt #1: Ask for 6 diverse styles of it
Prompt #2: Create six different visual versions of the attached image. Each one should be one of the styles you mentioned above.
00:37:05 Kevin Whitcher: Meme…
00:37:11 Karen Zanetti: Attended event with Baltimore County Leaders. Need for housing for the underprivileged up, supply down
00:38:01 Shannon: Can you share the link for the visual tools you mentioned
00:38:14 leandra williams: Vislow?
00:38:15 Michael Simmons: Vizzlo.com
00:38:19 Michael Simmons: Mindmeister.com
00:38:31 Michael Simmons: Ideogram.com
00:38:37 John Kelly: A whole new world - wonderful to express your messages from different angles
00:38:55 John Lester: Is there a concept of subroutines in AI where you can store prompts or parameters and recall them
00:41:10 Michael Glenn: Replying to "Is there a concept..."
In GPT you can create custom prompts. Just put forward slash in front to the word like /journal, for example.Then you have to train GPT what to do when you type /journal. I've created half a dozen prompts this way
00:42:26 Vikram K: Brilliant image @Michael Simmons
00:43:21 Dani Trusca: I LOVE the idea of full-spectrum thinking!
It connects with a concept of mine I call idea-forms: every idea can be expressed in many ways, and different forms can unlock different insights, and some can make the idea more expressive (idea transmission).
00:43:26 Kevin Whitcher: Running into copyright blocks when asking for artist styles!
00:44:04 Michael Glenn: I used this perspectives idea and GPT gave me a Hindu perspective on healing and trauma recovery that meshes perfectly with what I do! It was awesome
00:44:07 leandra williams: Replying to "Running into copyrig..."
I’m sure we’ll run into more of that over time when requesting specific artist styles, which makes sense.
00:44:25 Vikram K: Audio??
00:44:40 Kristin van Tilburg: yes
00:44:43 Bonnie J.: yes
00:46:16 Karen Zanetti: Link please:-)
00:46:42 Michael Glenn: This just broke my brain
00:47:09 Kristin van Tilburg: This is why it is so difficult for people to get along
00:47:26 John Kelly: Replying to "Running into copyrig..."
prompt wording issue? Also - combine 2 artist styles/combination ?
00:48:02 Michael Simmons: https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/resources-on-perspectiving?utm_source=publication-search
00:48:46 M Taylor: health, miracle, family
00:48:46 Bonnie J.: Connection change strength
00:48:48 Rad Co (@radrad): Creation, love, gratitude
00:48:50 Jonathan Hughes: connection, change power
00:48:50 leandra williams: Connection, alignment, strength.
00:48:55 faythebuchanan: creation, gratitude, money
00:48:55 John Kelly: Money, strength, breakthrough
00:48:56 Michael Glenn: power miracle lessons
00:48:57 Gabriel: Creation, love, gratitude
00:48:58 Michael Simmons: Gratitude, strength, money
00:49:01 Janet Ridsdale: Gratitude,love,change
00:49:01 KIS: miracle, alignment, connection
00:49:02 Shannon: Gratitude
00:49:03 Wendy McNeeley: Lessons alignment family
00:49:06 Malliha : Gratitude, alignment, self care
00:49:15 Dani Trusca: change
family
through
00:49:18 Kevin Whitcher: Care, purpose, miracle, creation, family, breakthrough
00:49:19 Karen Zanetti: Lessons, creation, gratitude
00:49:25 Marcin Podolski: I've experienced that i soften my inner critic thanks to my relationship with a woman who is a pretty twin flame with me. It was epiphany for me
00:49:27 Kristin van Tilburg: Care strength gratitude
00:49:34 John Kelly: lots of 'gratitudes'
00:49:43 KIS: fan
00:49:43 Rad Co (@radrad): The fan spinning
00:49:44 Bonnie J.: Lots of stripes
00:49:44 Gabriel: Bed
00:49:45 Shannon: lamps
00:49:47 Kevin Whitcher: Pillow, windows
00:49:48 M Taylor: fan
00:49:50 Jonathan Hughes: fan
00:49:51 Janet Ridsdale: Window love seeing outdooors
00:49:52 Kristin van Tilburg: Extra blanket on bed
00:49:53 Wendy McNeeley: Fan shadow
00:49:53 Karen Zanetti: fan is running. It's hot here
00:49:53 Don S: pillow and windows
00:49:53 Malliha : The movement of the fan
00:49:54 Dani Trusca: fan
00:49:54 John Kelly: Blanket - contrasting color than bed
00:50:00 Michael Simmons: Ceiling fan - I’m tall and don’t want to hit my head. I’m 6’5”
00:50:10 faythebuchanan: bed looks comfortable
00:50:16 leandra williams: The bed. It’s a beautiful room
00:50:24 leandra williams: Replying to "bed looks comfortabl..."
It does!
00:50:25 Rad Co (@radrad): Why both the fan and a/c is on ehhe
00:50:30 Michael Simmons: https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/a-change-in-perspective-is-worth?utm_source=publication-search
00:51:00 Rad Co (@radrad): These are diffierent from blinspots, right?
00:51:34 Rad Co (@radrad): The emotionl aspect
00:51:40 leandra williams: discipline
00:51:44 Janet Ridsdale: language
00:51:48 KIS: I like asking for the Laypersons perspective or child’s perspective…
00:51:50 Bonnie J.: Psychological/sociological/anthropological/philosophical
00:51:50 Malliha : Bias
00:52:07 Dani Trusca: We can ask the AI for a comprehensive list of perspectives
00:52:08 John Kelly: Contrary
00:52:41 Marcin Podolski: polarities
00:53:07 Marcin Podolski: convergence-divergence-emergence
00:53:28 faythebuchanan: Senses: hearing, vision, touch
00:53:29 Vikram K: From a Risk perspective
00:54:01 Michael Simmons: Ken Wilber: AQAL
Academic
Time
Modalities: Cognitive / Emotional / Somatics (Senses)
Stages Of Development
Meta
Cultural
Complexity (layperson, expert)
X
Dialectical synthesis / polarities: Contrary
Convergence-divergence-emergence
00:54:28 faythebuchanan: Afraid/not afraid
00:55:15 faythebuchanan: Generation
00:56:14 faythebuchanan: Profession/job
00:56:50 faythebuchanan: orchestra instrument
00:57:19 faythebuchanan: characters in a book/play
00:57:30 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "Running into copyrig..."
Chat GPT is so damn censorious on multiple levels with image generation! Can’t even express gender or ethnicity!
00:58:21 Michael Simmons: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NU6zNHIJZBfv3hlcUKrOSnT0cqrPTJ2vhDj3oup0SP0/edit?tab=t.whnv33ce7je8
00:58:53 KIS: sorry i need to leave now, see you next time…
00:59:39 Kevin Whitcher: Claude or ChatGPT for this one?
00:59:56 Shannon: Replying to "Claude or ChatGPT fo..."
I’m thinking Claude
00:59:58 Michael Simmons: Claude
01:02:16 Kevin Whitcher: Done - now watching
01:02:25 Jonathan Hughes: should we have 'Research' turned on?
01:03:18 Karen Zanetti: Do we have the link for the teenager and relative sound video for relative perspectives
01:03:32 Kristin van Tilburg: Clarifying: use the entire prompt right now?
01:04:37 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "Running into copyrig..."
true. it's because of the whole studio ghibli viral thing .. they were so strict with the copyrights
01:04:50 Michael Simmons:
01:05:32 Karen Zanetti: Gracias!
01:05:58 Kevin Whitcher: Mine is now producing another set of 6 artefacts
01:06:43 Michael Glenn: I think AI just wrote my newsletter for next week -- and did a damn good job!
01:06:49 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "Running into copyrig..."
There are alternatives, I will play around on those… suggestions welcomed
01:07:11 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "I think AI just wrot..."
Think mine has provided me with a year long course!
01:07:26 Michael Glenn: Replying to "I think AI just wr..."
Nice!
01:08:15 Marcin Podolski: Michael, can U zoom in?
01:08:26 leandra williams: Mine produced 10 artifacts so there’s soooo much to go through.
01:08:39 leandra williams: Agree with @Kristin van Tilburg!!!
01:08:53 Bonnie J.: Claude is still doing a lot of thinking so I don’t have a clear thought on modifying, but I did add “please ask me any questions needed to do your best work” and it asked me some great followup questions re: where I wanted to focus different aspects of my idea and counterarguments.
01:08:58 leandra williams: I think that’s what’s happening for me: overwhelm + freeze
01:09:18 Janet Ridsdale: I like this: Central Thesis: In the Age of AI, ritualized human connection (like 8-minute check-ins) acts as essential socio-technical glue—supporting well-being, trust, innovation, and social network resilience.
01:09:43 faythebuchanan: I think its partly about which level of the brain one is processing with when reading all this output?
01:09:45 Bonnie J.: Sometimes Claude spits out so much in a couple of minutes that I can spend the next hour thinking and journaling about it before I continue the conversation.
01:09:50 Michael Glenn: Replying to "I like this: Centr..."
Human connection might become the only thing that saves us all someday
01:09:59 Shannon: Replying to "Sometimes Claude spi..."
agree
01:10:56 leandra williams: Frenzied, scattered action here!
01:11:01 Bonnie J.: Interesting that overwhelm is the same shape as the Dunning-Kruger graph.
01:11:04 Kevin Whitcher: Some of us go through the bottom of that graph!
01:11:06 leandra williams: 10000%
01:11:07 M Taylor: yes
01:11:09 Michael Glenn: So much
01:11:10 John Kelly: sure
01:11:12 Janet Ridsdale: yes
01:11:13 Wendy McNeeley: YES
01:11:14 Rad Co (@radrad): ues
01:11:17 Don: yes
01:11:17 Marcin Podolski: yes
01:11:19 Gabriel: That is what I want to base my Thought Leadership on
01:11:24 John Kelly: Seth Godin 'The Dip'
01:11:47 Kevin Whitcher: Michael has set up a wonderful storage system
01:12:02 leandra williams: Replying to "Michael has set up a..."
That could be a class all onto itself
01:12:07 leandra williams: Replying to "Michael has set up a..."
A course even
01:12:34 leandra williams: So much FOMO! Where’s the golden nugget?
01:12:35 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "Michael has set up a..."
He paid for someone to develop the system - it’s complex!
01:12:42 Marcin Podolski: JOMO - Joy of Missing Out
01:12:48 leandra williams: Replying to "JOMO - Joy of Missin..."
The goal!
01:13:01 Dani Trusca: I tried it in ChatGPT, because I only have that paid.
My topic was Beautify, the word that encodes my life philosophy. It's so powerful to see all those perspectives!
Neuroscience of Beauty (Neuroscience)
Aesthetic Experience & Meaning-Making (Cognitive Psychology)
Beauty in Systems Design (Design Theory / Complexity Science)
Beauty as Embodied Cognition (Philosophy of Mind / Embodiment)
Aesthetics and Behavior Change (Behavioral Science / Intervention Design)
Synthesis — “Beautify” as Paradigm of Embodied Meaning Activation
Cultural Anthropology of Beauty (Anthropology)
Sexual Selection & Human Beauty (Evolutionary Biology)
Phonaesthetics & Language Sound (Linguistics)
Information Theory of Beauty (Information Theory)
Contemplative Science & Beauty (Contemplative Science)
Synthesis — “Beautify” as Culturally Attuned, Coevolved, Sonic, Informational, and Mindful Meta‑Practice
This was just 1 iteration!
01:13:11 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "JOMO - Joy of Missin..."
That is the reality when all is said and done
01:13:40 Kevin Whitcher: Michael - Was that substack you just showed published yet?
01:13:56 leandra williams: Can you please share the prompt you used for this? I didn’t get the beginning.
01:14:48 Michael Simmons: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/da92ac2c-3ebd-4ebf-8cb2-c3ae46422061
01:15:00 Michael Simmons: I'm a thought leader, and I want to expand the perspectives I view my ideas from so I can enrich them, challenge them, iterate on them, etc.
To start, I'd like to identify all of the most useful perspectives to look at my idea from.
Below is a sample of different perspective types:
Ken Wilber: AQAL
Academic
Time
Modalities: Cognitive / Emotional / Somatics (Senses)
Stages Of Development
Meta
Cultural
Complexity (layperson, expert)
X
Dialectical synthesis / polarities: Contrary
Convergence-divergence-emergence
Can you create a comprehensive, categorized, multi-level map of perspectiving?
01:15:17 John Kelly: Awesome output
01:15:22 Dani Trusca: Insight: In overabundance, value is filtration.
Don't just settle for the 20% outputs, focus on the 1%.
The ones that powerfully resonate.
Derek Sivers's "Hell Yea! or No" on steroids.
01:15:51 Bonnie J.: Process stages looks cool, as does the time progression
01:16:39 leandra williams: I think time horizons would be great for me to explore since I’m helping artists envision the planning of their careers
01:17:00 Michael Simmons: Which one of these perspective would you recommend using regular to evolve my ideas that almost no one in the world uses that would lead to making the ideas profoundly more interesting, usable, and attractive?
01:17:17 Dani Trusca: I love the idea of Focusing Prompts as a category.
01:19:07 Marcin Podolski: Anand's style analysis
01:19:14 Michael Simmons: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0b3ac2b8-7645-49c5-bc68-f75cc0e76f40
01:20:09 Kevin Whitcher: Note to self -
Create a prompt that I could use where I upload an article and then the prompt uses the perspectives within that broader perspective type to evolve the idea?
01:22:02 Vikram K: Challenging Hero's journey... very interesting.
01:22:05 Bonnie J.: That’s cool!
01:22:59 Janet Ridsdale: I also used ChatGPT. Love this prompt, so much that will help me find a specific direction. I have to head out. Thanks Michael
01:23:14 Michael Simmons: Rareness
Usefulness to audience
Attractiveness
01:23:44 Michael Simmons: Stand the test of time
More likely to spread virally
01:25:40 faythebuchanan: Chat has Projects, too.
01:26:36 faythebuchanan: What would the person or clone do?
01:26:45 Michael Glenn: I can't believe this is only week four. I can't even imagine the kind of thoughts I'll be having 48 weeks from now!
01:26:57 Rad Co (@radrad): I tried creating a GPT version of Chris Do using the books and their youtube —but I haven’t fully delved deep into it. 🙂
01:27:29 Rad Co (@radrad): Oh like Lego prompts.
01:29:32 Michael Glenn: I almost feel like prompting is really like the early days of computer coding? Except way more flexible... but like what we're doing today is only the very beginning and even in a few years, AI might advance so much that prompt engineers will be obsolete
01:30:27 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "I almost feel like p..."
It depends on the ‘needs’ of AI in the questions it asks of itself
01:30:39 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "I almost feel like p..."
I agree, it's like we're developing a language between AI
01:30:51 Michael Glenn: Replying to "I almost feel like..."
@rad I like that!
01:31:06 Michael Glenn: Replying to "I almost feel like..."
Like we're teaching it how to understand humans maybe
01:31:25 Michael Glenn: Replying to "I almost feel like..."
And also learning how to communicate with it lol
01:31:31 Shannon: do you use typing mind to have access to all models?
@Dani Trusca
01:31:51 Rad Co (@radrad): Replying to "I almost feel like p..."
my sentiments exactly 🙂
01:32:04 leandra williams: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
Since you’re using the API with typing mind, do you still get access to memory in the same way?
01:32:10 Michael Glenn: I'm so much smarter than four weeks ago
01:32:12 leandra williams: FULL SPECTRUM THINKING!
01:32:18 faythebuchanan: I want to play with the cartoons!
01:32:30 Shannon: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
Yes
01:32:39 Bonnie J.: I feel like the master list of perspectives and pulling that in as a resource to find the ones to focus on for each new project is going to be a gamechanger.
01:32:46 Michael Glenn: Replying to "I want to play wit..."
The cartoons are next level
01:32:56 Rad Co (@radrad): Full Spectrum —yes!
Looking at it from several perspectives. Wow
01:33:01 Kevin Whitcher: The only limits are our own imagination… ironic given we are dealing with computers which are very binary!
01:33:02 Kristin van Tilburg: That last week’s infinite prompt got even more infinite (LOL) this week
01:33:03 Shannon: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
Also going to look at Poe as well @leandra williams
01:33:41 Zain Haseeb: May be a helpful tip for the group, this past weekend I took some time to create a "Prompt Taxonomy" for my audience, it helped me think about how to organize these different ideas and thoughts for prompts into something more tangible and clear to execute on.
01:33:46 Karen Zanetti: transforming ideas/concepts/ issues into visuals/cartoon. Can be incorporated into multiple perspectives.
01:33:56 Rad Co (@radrad): How absolute truth really is relative.. that broke my brain.
01:34:02 Michael Glenn: Replying to "May be a helpful t..."
I like that idea
01:34:13 Michael Glenn: Replying to "How absolute truth..."
same!
01:35:20 Karen Zanetti: Replying to "May be a helpful tip..."
Would luv to see the example. Share? changeimplementation@gmail.com
01:35:20 John Kelly: Good prompting can literally open whole new worlds and catapult someone into thought leadership status far sooner than 'normal' - because the VALUE is so much more complete and has great thought providing perspectives.
01:35:54 Michael Glenn: Replying to "Good prompting can..."
Even poor prompting can open new worlds IF you're willing to stick with it and identify what didn't work alongside with what did
01:35:58 leandra williams: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
Poe doesn’t have memory recall.
01:36:03 Dani Trusca: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
I don't use typing mind. I do it manually.
I'll have to look into it.
I have a project where I want to get the AIs to communicate. ChatGPT can simulate the style of the others, but after testing responses, I got it to notice things it hadn't known about them. Thus I'm evolving ChatGPT to understand the other models.
01:36:12 faythebuchanan: ‘Is it green, even if no one sees it as green?’
01:36:12 Zain Haseeb: Replying to "May be a helpful tip..."
Here's how I structured mine if this helps: 1. The Hierarchical Structure
Each prompt will live within a clear, four-level hierarchy:
Level 1: Taxonomy (The "Lens")
This is the highest-level view, representing the 7 different ways to look at the library (e.g., By Audience Persona, By Role & Department).
Level 2: Category
This is the main grouping within a taxonomy (e.g., Product Management within the By Role taxonomy).
Level 3: Sub-Category
This is a specific area of focus or workflow within a category (e.g., Roadmapping & Prioritization within the Product Management category).
Level 4: Prompt Idea
This is the individual, actionable prompt itself (e.g., The RICE Scoring Framework Prompt).
01:36:36 Marcin Podolski: perspectiving and Dani's idea of modular prompting arranged in the fractal system of prompts
01:36:45 Shannon: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
@leandra williams okay I didn’t know that.
Are you using typing mind?
01:37:05 leandra williams: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
I have subscriptions to Poe, ChatGPT, Claude and superwhisper
01:37:11 Rad Co (@radrad): And that kind of thinking will help with our prompting. :) —the multiple perspective prompt was just wow.
01:37:18 Shannon: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
@Dani Trusca gotcha
01:37:51 leandra williams: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
I really use Poe to stay on top of the landscape and try different models/LLMs. I tend to use it for throwaway questions that I don’t need to really access later. It doesn’t have a search feature.
01:37:56 faythebuchanan: sorry, need to jump.
01:38:11 Karen Zanetti: Replying to "May be a helpful tip..."
👋 Big thank you Zain. The other Z person (Karen Zanetti)
01:38:26 Vikram K: Art was a privilige so far, seeing my content converted to art is exciting!
01:39:42 Shannon: Replying to "do you use typing mi..."
@leandra williams I learned about typing mind from an AI agent build class. And what Dani was sharing had me think using Typing to create an AI Assistant would be very useful/effective
01:39:56 Dani Trusca: One powerful model I know from John Vervaeke is that of Inexhaustibleness.
eg
Creativity is inexhaustible.
Play is inexhaustible.
"In being a creator you have unlimited power; you can create new things out of thin air all the time." (Leo Gura)
Insight: prompting is inexhaustible
01:41:03 Kristin van Tilburg: Emotions: prompts to deal with anger, anxiety, overwhelm, joy, bliss, etc.
01:42:01 Zain Haseeb: https://chatllm.abacus.ai/DNHLRqhxvw
01:42:24 leandra williams: That’s exactly why I only use API for certain use-cases.
01:43:18 Shannon: These are good for like “prototype thinking"
01:43:50 leandra williams: Whimsical is like Notion but not as good so I’m moving things over to Notion, I think
01:43:55 Michael Simmons: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
01:44:46 Michael Glenn: So far everything's been great! Far above my expectations
01:44:53 Marcin Podolski: Replying to "One powerful model I..."
Like a lot Leo Gura and his meta thinking
01:44:57 Shannon: Pleasantly overwhelmed :-))
01:45:15 Michael Glenn: Next week: stay off AI and let my mind catch up with this all
01:45:22 John Kelly: actually applying info into AI
01:45:24 Michael Glenn: If I can go a whole week without
01:45:24 Dani Trusca: I want to launch the first issue of my Prompt Design Mastery newsletter.
01:45:27 leandra williams: I’m glad to have a break to really play around and implement. I’ve been needing to launch.
01:45:29 Gabriel: In my case, my next action step would be actually launching a first publication.
01:45:31 Bonnie J.: Get more focused and do some filtering so I go into the next section knowing what I want to work in.
01:45:47 Bonnie J.: And ditto on pleasantly overwhelmed. 🙂
01:45:48 Rad Co (@radrad): I’m going to use next week to review all the lessons 🙂 whew. 🙂
01:45:51 leandra williams: Replying to "I want to launch the..."
Very excited!
01:45:54 Kevin Whitcher: It will be a strange week not seeing you Mr Simmons! It’s been intense!
01:46:16 leandra williams: Years, decades
01:46:32 Karen Zanetti: Kind of the new version of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. The new "just right" for overwhelming
01:46:36 leandra williams: https://leandrawilliams.substack.com
01:47:10 Kevin Whitcher: https://substack.com/@thequantummiracle
01:47:12 John Kelly: Michael - you did an artivcle on using Substack - you have that url handy?
01:47:15 Kristin van Tilburg: kristinvantilburg.substack.com
01:47:55 Michael Simmons: https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/why-im-all-in-on-substack-free-live
01:48:07 Kevin Whitcher: Was that Substack of yours with all the food on the table one that’s been posted?
01:48:21 Kristin van Tilburg: Re levels of Thought Leader School…where would this class cut off if it was just for the basic subscriber?
01:48:41 Kevin Whitcher: It looked good!
01:48:48 Michael Simmons: https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/ea133895-f12b-440f-89d9-661d9187ebff?postPreview=free&updated=2025-06-11T16%3A50%3A09.865Z&audience=only_paid&free_preview=true&freemail=true
01:48:58 Michael Simmons: Replying to "Re levels of Thought..."
This is the last week
01:49:00 John Kelly: The market decides
01:49:27 Karen Zanetti: Helping us all jump higher! And extend it all to others. Got to jump.
01:49:54 Kristin van Tilburg: Replying to "Re levels of Thought..."
I meant where in this class would it cut off? At 30 minutes in?
01:49:55 Michael Simmons: https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/cfafcd86-03a7-40a4-aea2-164f484d116f?postPreview=free&updated=2025-06-11T16%3A11%3A04.610Z&audience=only_paid&free_preview=true&freemail=true
01:51:39 leandra williams: Learning in public
01:52:05 Kevin Whitcher: Replying to "Re levels of Thought..."
Month by month I think it’s $300 a month - so think of it as $25 per class.
01:53:48 Dani Trusca: Replying to "Re levels of Thought..."
Self-expression as orientation powerfully resonates with me. I'm developing 2 newsletters in parallel. One for my soul. One for my craft. Both express different sides of me.
01:53:55 Dani Trusca: Replying to "Re levels of Thought..."
1. Beautify
My modular insight letter.
It’s where I write to remember.
Where I design meaning, sculpt models, and shape life into art.
Each issue is built like a booster pack—
you open it, and inside are modular fragments:
brieflings, mementos, mental models, compressed truths.
Each piece stands alone. Together, they form an experience.
It’s poetic. Polymathic. Personal.
The whole of me, in fragments of resonance.
—
2. Prompt Design Mastery
This is my dojo.
Where I train in public.
Where I refine the art of modular prompt design—and help others do the same.
This is focused, practical, high-signal.
For anyone who wants to become fluent in prompt design and lead with AI.
—
Two different rhythms.
Same source.
One heart split into complementary streams.
Follow Beautify to remember what matters.
Follow Prompt Design Mastery to build your prompting power.
I’ll be linking between them sometimes—like two doors in the same house.
01:53:58 leandra williams: Thank you!!!!
01:54:03 John Kelly: THANKS
01:54:05 Marcin Podolski: SEE YA
01:54:07 Don S: Thank you.
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