Hello !

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Do you remember life before ChatGPT? Honestly, it's getting hard for me! Today it has been a year exactly I started to use it. ChatGPT has become an indispensable tool in my work and family's life. But I realized that many of my clients still don't use it at work regularly. So now it is part of my coaching (as part of our agile in health training for exemple).

So here you will get my learning of 1 year practice so you can save time and energy to speed up the adoption of this technology in your life (I will a also show how I use it for German homework).

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Get comfortable for your 5 minutes of sparks to hack.

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✨ Spark

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I used text generative AI, large language model (aka LLM), like ChatGPT from OpenAI or BERT from Google in my work and at home. It is here to stay. So I am convinced that :

Same principle apply to you, healthcare change maker (employee of corporate organisation, a startup or academic project team).

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✏ Embrace or be obsolete:

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Today, more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using ChatGPT. ChatGPT has over 180 million monthly users.

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✏ How I started : the team I dreamed to have

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The easiest for me to start a year ago was to identify which role or expertise I would love to have in my team but I didn't had the time and resources to get them:

A trainee for repetitive and time consuming tasks like formatting,

An expert to get advise: a teacher to help my kids, a layer to get a legal advise, a VC assessor when reviewing funding request from startups

A creativity buddy to brainstorm: alone is not so fun so getting another view helps me to create.

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The 3 behaviors that helped me the most:

be curious to start.

be creative to identify the situation you can use it.

be humble : If the output is sh*ty, it's because of me not because of the AI.

And be disciplined to improve your prompt and be patient. Like a trainee that needs time to understand your context and your goals, your first prompt and output will be bad 😅.

I am still not happy with my first try but I know it will get better.

✏ New skills to develop : the art of prompts

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Prompts are our inputs, and the better we get at giving great prompts, the better the output will be. Although plugins like Prompt Perfect can help you, they still won’t do your job, so don’t rely solely on them.

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Your first prompt will be really really bad. Like the first time you had a trainee, or you needed to explain to a 10 years old kid a task.

This is okay. Just keep going.

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✏ Have clear split of roles: 10 / 80 / 10

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Once you start to have a library of prompts that you improve regularly, this is how the amount of work is split.

• You start with the 1st 10% : your prompt
• LLM will do 80%, maybe you will have to course correct a bit
• You do the last 10%

Exactly like with a trainee. You will check what was done.

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✏ How I used it

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So here are 2 examples. It was not easy to select only 2. In our training design think and innovation in healthcare , I share many more 🥹.

One time consuming task : writing content

I use it for writing content, review typos, formatting.. I now have a library of over 100 prompts.

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While it makes me save time, there are unexpected benefits to use a LLM to create content:

✅ Enhances conciseness: Adding a length constraint helps me keep my writing short and sweet.

✅ Eliminates writer's block: No more blank page syndrome when creating content.

✅ Improves thinking: it challenges me to clarify my goals and questions.

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One task for an expert : German homework

Raising kids in a German speaking country when your german is😵‍💫.. is challenging. Now I found a way to help my kids (I don't delegate to a LLM, I do the work with a LLM). Last week German test preparation for a 12 year old kid:

Now it will write the questions, I will ask them and then confirm the answers.

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✨ Hack

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Nowadays, using AI is a key part of our coaching and trainings. We show our clients how to use it in their daily task and share prompts in our online academy so they can do their homework more rapidly (here is the link to the academy if you are curious).

So here are some principles we teach our coaches.

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✏ 4 steps to start :

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Motivated to start?

Week 1 understand where LLM can fit at home and at work : identifying and list daily and weekly tasks you could delegate. Remember they are either repetitive or time-consuming tasks. If you have teenagers, they will give you many ideas where to use it. This is also a chance to discuss AI and homework 😱.

Week 2: exchange with your peers and IT department to see what is available inside your company. At home, register to one LLM, I have the ChatGPT 4 (paid subscription 20$).

Week 3: commit to try: start a 5 days commitment to using a LLM exclusively for certain tasks. Remember at the start it will feel like a waste of time, so be patient.

Week 4: assess what you have done, start or improve your prompts library.

And continue to use it.

Remember :

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✏ Get one for your team at work

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One tricky part is how the data will be used by the LLM. Companies hesitated to make the leap due to data privacy concerns. OpenAI understood this.

On January 10th 2024, they launched the Team plan : available starting from two users and where the data are not used to train OpenAI's model.

So maybe something to consider? I will investigate that for sure.

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✏ Ask your colleagues, partners and friends

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Like exchanging cooking recipes, shops where to buy new shoes, or location to go on vacation, talk also about LLM (sounds wired, just try 😆)

My preferred question lately is "What is the task that a LLM helped you the most with last week?". If you could reply to this email and share with me this would be so cool 😍.

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Hit reply to let me know if you liked this edition or if you tried these tips. I respond to every person who writes to me!

See you in two weeks. Keep the spark alive, and be intentional :)