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> **Step 2: Reorder And Trim The List Of Questions For Maximum Clarity**
> Once I have ChatGPT’s outline, I edit and refine the list of questions:
> • Rearranging them into a natural flow
> • Keeping the most valuable, high-impact questions
> • Identifying any missing angles (case studies, examples, stories, etc.)
Fwd: Frictionless Outlining With ChatGPT
Felicity Bodger
The leads of the product teams came together to organize the wish list of initiatives. They grouped the initiatives in terms of which themes each project supported and then stack-ranked them in terms of the contribution they believed each initiative would have—that is, they associated each initiative with the outcome they thought the work would create and showed how those outcomes would support the strategic goals expressed by leadership. They estimated head count for each initiative and sent the results to the finance experts, who correlated these plans with some of the major financial metrics they tracked and considered how the proposed work might impact results. When this was done, the plan was sent back up to the executives for review.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
Three helpful lines of questioning to strengthen your scope:
When someone decides to buy and read your book, what are they trying to achieve or accomplish with it?
Why are they bothering?
After finishing it, what’s different in their life, work, or worldview?
That’s your book’s promise.
What does your ideal reader already know and believe? If they already believe in the importance of your topic, then you can skip (or hugely reduce) the sections attempting to convince them of its worth. Or if they already know the basics, then you can skip those.
Who is your book not for and what is it not doing? If you aren’t clear on who you’re leaving out, then you’ll end up writing yourself into rabbit holes, wasting time on narrow topics that only a small subset of your readers actually care about. Deciding who it isn’t for will allow you to clip those tangential branches.
Write Useful Books
Rob Fitzpatrick und Adam Rosen
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