This week, I dictated a LinkedIn post and uttered "and then, blah, blah, blah." Three times. Each time asking Claude to fill in the blanks.
That's my "braindump" process: long, messy, out loud. I bring the input and the direction. Claude edits it, and fills in the blanks with my past words and ideas. A centaur approach: me for the thinking, AI for the shaping. Nicolas Cole, ghostwriter, put it well on Greg Isenberg's podcast: "I don't want the robots writing for me. What I want is the robots repeating me."
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evoilabs starts with one task, the one your team repeats every week, and builds the system that handles it. Then your team builds the next one.
See how it works →So when I prompt stream-of-consciousness, I think of Blaise Pascal, who apologized to his reader for sending a long letter: he didn't have the time to make it shorter. I don't apologize. I dump the long version, in the car or on a run, and let AI do the part Pascal didn't have time for.
If your prompts are two lines because writing a good one takes too long: don't write the short version. Dump the long one.