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Back to our regular deep dive this week. Given popular demand, Iâm walking through my AI workflow today.
Today, in 5 minutes or less, youâll learn:
𧰠Nine AI tools I use every week
đ¨âđť Four steps I take to write useful AI prompts
đ Four AI prompts I use in my business on a daily or weekly basis
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đ Last Weekâs Finds
Internet commentators have piled on Berkshire Hathaway, asking why itâs sitting on a massive cash pile and whether or not if it foreshadows issues for US equities.
I canât predict the future, but here is an insightful line from Warren Buffetâs 2024 Shareholder Letter:
âDespite what some commentators currently view as an extraordinary cash position at Berkshire, the great majority of your money remains in equities. That preference wonât change.
While our ownership in marketable equities moved downward last year from $354 billion to $272 billion, the value of our non-quoted controlled equities increased somewhat and remains far greater than the value of the marketable portfolio.â
The traditional product development team is dead according to Julie Zhou, ex-VP Product Design @ Facebook.
My quick takeaway: everything is moving faster. Writing lengthy mocks and docs is becoming outdated. AI empowers the generalist IC. (Hence the rise of 10x workers.)
đ My Favorite AI Tools and Prompts (March 2025)
Everything in AI changes fast.
Thatâs why Iâm going to show you exactly how I use AI today.
Whether youâre a tech professional, portfolio careerist, or founder, AI can help you save time or make better decision.
Today, Iâm going to share a concise guide on how I use AI tools, prompts, and workflow on a weekly basis.
Letâs first start off with tools:
𧰠Nine AI tools I use every week
Here are the tools Iâm using on a daily basis:
Claude: I pay for API credits (more on this in a sec). I prefer Claude over ChatGPT for its natural writing voice and providing insightful responses.
TypingMind: I use this Frontend App for LLMs, which integrates into Claude and ChatGPT APIs. This houses my agents and prompt libraries that I use flexibly across both LLMs.
Perplexity: I have replaced most of my Google searches with Perplexity for gathering information.
Granola: My preferred AI meeting notetaker. I like that works with no meeting bot, I can type my own notes during the meeting, and the synthesized output is fantastic.
Outside of the above, Iâm also experimenting with these tools weekly for more niche use cases:
Lindy: I use automation tool for customer research, meeting prep, and email drafting. So far, itâs helped me shave off a few hours a week.
Tella*: I have replaced Loom with this AI video editor for my course content. Itâs helped me save hours by auto removing fillers/silences, generating captions, and editing based on transcripts.
Kick*: I use this AI bookkeeper tool to auto match receipts with my transactions, categorize them, and do reconciliation.
Vercel V0: I use V0 to generate front-end UI and code for my web apps.
Cursor: My (vibe) code editor when I code with AI.
*I include affiliate links for some of these tools help to support this publication
Thatâs all for now. Iâm sure this list of tools will change a lot over the next few months, so Iâll share updates later.
Next Iâm going to zoom in on the most popular of these tools: the LLMs and how I write prompts for them.
đ¨âđť Four steps to writing useful AI prompts
Here is how I like to structure my AI prompts:
Define a goal. âYou are my writing assistant. I would like your help to repurpose this newsletter post into a Linkedin post.â
Provide examples. âFirst, review the examples I shared with you.â
Write step-by-step instructions. âNext, ask me for my newsletter article. Then, write the Linkedin post in my style.â
Create rules. âThe Linkedin post should have no more than 200 words.â
Most people I know jump straight to step 3.
But I find the responses to be much more useful when I include all four steps.
đ Four prompts I use in my products and content
Below I share 4 prompts that I use on a daily or weekly basis:
