Welcome to Day 2 of our journey to unlock your creative potential!

Today’s Focus: Identifying Quality Information and Creating Valuable Tools

Key Takeaways:

• Extract actionable insights from expert content
• Use AI to scale up insights into useful tools
• Validate demand through pre-sales or beta testing

AI gives us so many powerful tools to extract information from one source and transform it into something else. But there's too much of a focus on the core models. Those just offer all of human language in a highly compressed system. That means you don't have nearly as much confidence in the ideas that come out of them. But you know the people you follow and trust. You know where there are good ideas online. Take those ideas, combine them, transform them, and share them. And some of those ideas are yours! Don't forget to use your own insights to guide the AI systems you use. The majority of people are using AI to generate as much shitty content as they can. But I'm here to tell you that it's all noise. The hidden secret of AI is in being able to easily filter the noise as well, but those systems are taking longer to develop because platforms don't offer the level of API access they should (basically, the hold on tight to their data and want to charge people a ton of money to access it). The grand irony in all of that is that it's not going to be the volume of data that makes the difference: it's understanding the power of human knowledge + experience. The world is changing faster than it's possible to train models. And if you pay attention to who is paying attention, you know who to follow for the valuable insights. Until the systems help you do the filtering, it's up to you and those around you. Share the filters you use. Tell people whose information you find valuable. It's a communal effort to filter the noise and that makes it easier for all of us.

Once you filter out the most valuable sources, use those to create valuable tools. It's relatively easy to create a prompt that you can use on ChatGPT or Claude, and even if you can't code something, use the prompt as a mechanism for sharing something valuable. Create a community where you share the prompts you use. Of, if you have some insight, find someone who wants to build AI tools and see what you can come up with. There are lots of people coding all sorts of things just to play with the technology. Turn that energy into something useful.

​Here's a detailed breakdown of how I identified content and ideas I found valuable and started building things.​

Did You Know?

​People tend to trust information based on past experiences and the consistency of the source. They develop predictive models that help them anticipate the reliability of information. If these models are consistent and the source has proven trustworthy in the past, individuals are more likely to trust them again. Biases and preconceived notions also play a role, as people often look for information that confirms their existing beliefs and ignore contradictory evidence​

Action Step:

Identify 3 trusted sources in your niche and list 5 key insights from each that could be turned into a tool or resource.

Who do you trust?

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Next Lesson: Discover how to build tools that solve your own problems and benefit your community!