5 Ways I Actually Use ChatGPT at Work!
About this video
Jeff shares five ways he actually uses ChatGPT at work. One, ‘context cheating’: instead of explaining a framework, copy and paste an existing explanation into the prompt — the SCQA framework for presentations, PAS (problem-agitate-solution) for sales copy, SMART for performance reviews. The same trick supplies voice: paste a Google blog article, or material from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, or Fox News, to write in that voice; he Googled author Lee Child’s writing style and saved it in a text expander. Pasting a URL directly works too, though he says it works much better in Google Gemini than ChatGPT. Two, ‘convert with intention’: faced with a comprehensive 128-page McKinsey industry report on the state of fashion, he asked ChatGPT for a structured outline serving a specific objective — a business plan for traditional fast fashion companies like Zara to compete with new entrants like Shein and Temu — rather than a generic summary, then followed up by asking which pages of the report the answer referenced for fact-checking. Three, ‘answer leveling’, a technique he credits to Ali Miller on LinkedIn: define a boring-but-safe level one idea (email marketing) and a level two (an online or offline event), then ask for five level three ideas; he also escalates pain-point questions from level one to level three deep-seated fears, finding level three the sweet spot. Four, seamless data extraction: he copied all text from a Google careers page and prompted ChatGPT to build a table with specified columns, downloaded it as a CSV, and imported it into Notion to create an open-roles database for recently laid-off friends. Five, uncover actionable insights: attach qualitative feedback (his example is a paid wallpaper app), have ChatGPT propose three categories, add columns for feedback type and responsible team, then ask for the top three insights and three action items under the 80/20 rule — and optionally have it create the stakeholder chart itself.
Key takeaways
- Context cheat: paste an existing explanation of a framework (SCQA, PAS, SMART) or a sample of a publication’s or author’s style instead of describing it yourself
- Convert with intention: give ChatGPT a dense document plus a specific objective (e.g. a Zara business plan versus Shein and Temu) rather than asking for a generic summary, then ask which pages it referenced
- Use answer leveling: anchor level one and level two examples, then request level three ideas — level three is his sweet spot between usable and crazy
- Extract data seamlessly: paste a whole web page’s text, specify table columns, export as CSV, and import into Notion, Sheets, or Excel
- Turn raw feedback into action: have ChatGPT categorize rows, tag the responsible team, then apply the 80/20 rule to surface the top three insights and three detailed action items
Episode details: published October 15, 2024 · 10:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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