📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 4: Quantity first, judgment second.
Ask for one idea and you get the safest one. Ask for twelve and the interesting ones appear in the middle of the list — because the model has exhausted the obvious before it gets there.
Why this matters: The hardest part of an essay is finding an angle worth 2,000 words. Models are mediocre at picking the best idea and genuinely excellent at generating many. Use them for the divergent half of thinking and keep the convergent half for yourself.