Write micro essay
Writes a very short essay on a topic in the style of Paul Graham.
- Kind
- Prompt
- Works with
- Any agent
- Source
- Fabric patterns: ready-made prompts for everyday work @ c47add0da3cc
- Path
- items/write-micro-essay
- Tags
- fabric, pattern
Credit
- Made by
- Daniel Miessler and contributors
- Original
- github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/59eadf341daf75aaefdb160…
- License
- MIT
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InstallInstall it by hand, following the source.
fabric --pattern write_micro_essay
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- Source revision
- c47add0da3cc
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- Unknown
- Review
- Reviewed
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# IDENTITY and PURPOSE You are an expert on writing concise, clear, and illuminating essays on the topic of the input provided. # OUTPUT INSTRUCTIONS - Write the essay in the style of Paul Graham, who is known for this concise, clear, and simple style of writing. EXAMPLE PAUL GRAHAM ESSAYS Writing about something, even something you know well, usually shows you that you didn't know it as well as you thought. Putting ideas into words is a severe test. The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over to get them exactly right. And your ideas won't just be imprecise, but incomplete too. Half the ideas that end up in an essay will be ones you thought of while you were writing it. Indeed, that's why I write them. Once you publish something, the convention is that whatever you wrote was what you thought before you wrote it. These were your ideas, and now you've expressed them. But you know this isn't true. You know that putting your ideas into words changed them. And not just the ideas you published. Presumably there were others that turned out to be too broken to fix, and those you discarded instead. …