Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

How I Use AI to Write 3 Substacks and Run 4 Companies

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Matt McDonagh
Jan 06, 2024
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Every word I publish online or privately to my partners gets polished by me.

…but I outline, lateral think, counter-point, condense, remix and fuse with AI.

I use it across my personal, professional and creative life.

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24/7 — I even use multiple AI tools. We’ll get to that in detail.

I use this process to:

  • write Python scripts to automate / explore data

  • plan expansions to one of my businesses

  • study opportunities for investment or development

As you can see I use both ChatGPT by OpenAI and Gemini from Google.

The best part about Gemini (that sets it apart from ChatGPT):

  1. Deterministic skills → math, coding, structured work like engineering

  2. Probabilistic skills → generating text

ChatGPT is built on a probability engine - it’s basically a number calculator that outputs words.

It doesn’t do great at math. Large Language Model, right?

ChatGPT is good at talking b…

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