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• **The spite draft.** Ask AI to write your piece. Read it. Get mad at how bad it is. Write it yourself, better, fueled by righteous indignation.
• **The slop bomb.** Struggling with procrastination? Ask the AI to write it for you and tell it if you do not share your own draft within the hour then it should send the AI-generated slop draft to your editor claiming it is your own work. The threat of humiliation will compel you to get over your writers’ block.
• **The originality test.** Start writing your sentence, then stop halfway through and ask the AI to finish it. If it finishes the sentence the way you were going to, it turns out what you were about to say was not that unique and you might need to think some more.
• **The sparring partner.** If you’re blocked, open Claude and just start talking until you figure out what you actually think. Then close the window and ignore whatever Claude said. You just needed a wall to throw the ball against. Engineers call this rubber ducking. See? Wario!
Writers Are Wario Software Developers
Hilary Gridley
However, if it's the first time they have worked on this problem, then they will likely need some time to learn the space, start collecting some data to establish a baseline, and get a sense of what the possibilities are. In this case, encourage the team to jump in and not get stuck in paralysis by analysis, and acknowledge with them that they will learn much more as they progress, and that the confidence level will, of course, be low in this first quarter because they are still learning what they don't know.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
Note that while doing product discovery, certain tools and techniques serve both to facilitate collaboration as well as to provide an artifact as an output of that collaboration. Two very popular examples of that are prototypes and story maps.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
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