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Portico Darwin: How to Prompt ChatGPT

TODAY'S RAMBLINGS <3 Minute Read Happy Monday and let's dive right in with something useful for your week and beyond. As promised, here is a list of 15 pretty darned Killer prompts for getting actual value from ChatGPT (or any other AI text engine). I do wish I could claim credit for these, but I cannot: I grabbed it from LinkedIn, whe...

An API gateway is a facade

Today I learned that an API gateway can be more than just a reverse proxy. It can also be used as a facade: it hides the numerous requests required to build a screen, whether those endpoints are all part of one monolithic REST API, or are from multiple microservices. The gateway might become a single point of failure, but it also hides...

side quest to Dublin

Dubbalin Our layover to get home was in Dublin, but when the final leg of our flight was unexpectedly cancelled, we ended up having an extra 2 days in the city. When we went to Ireland last year, we had COVID during the portion of the trip where we would have explored Dublin, so it felt like a bit of a fortunate do-over (amidst the fru...

Monday Muse: Hit it with a hammer

If something doesn't work and you can't fix it by hitting it with a hammer, I'd suggest getting rid of it. That's what I want to do with the car I have, my small Mercedes. It's great, comfortable, it doesn't squeak, and I really like it. But it's so computerised, I hate it!! And this is from a guy that deals in computers! I hate it bec...

Confessions of an Advertising Man: David Ogilvy

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. 2. I admire people who work hard, who bite the bullet. 3. Don't bunt. Aim out of the park. Aim for the company of immortals. 4. Only First Class business, and that in a First Class way. 5. M. Pitard did not tolerate...

Priority vs. Sequence

Priority (what is important) and sequence (what should get done first) are two different (albeit related) concepts that are often conflated with each other. Distinguishing which one you're talking about helps immensely. It helps when collaborating with others, obviously. But it even clarifies my own thinking. X might be the most import...

Gradual Return to Regular Turmoil

As the last sixteen or so days were pretty insane, I had to skip last week’s newsletter and social media activities in general. What I’d originally thought I’d be terribly busy with were my upcoming book’s page proofs. But CRC-Press did a terrific job, so that turned out to be a cinch. Only one major issue needed fixing, involving thre...

Erase and rewind

Imagine a problem you can't understand without solving it first. The first time I saw software development described as a wicked problem was in Code Complete by Steve McConnell, and I haven't seen anything but a constant validation of this proposition throughout my career. And it's a paradoxical one with several counterintuitive coroll...

We need not all be connected, all the time

When I went to school in the 80s and 90s, the communication between the institution and home was limited. Kids could bring home a flyer about some future event, they'd get their grades and remarks detailed in a little grey book, and once a year parents would come in for a chat with the teachers. That was basically it, and it was glorio...

Friday Fury: What do you do?

I've been following a lot of marketers, storytellers, and podcasters about business, and I've been listening recently to a guy called Sun Yi, I've listened to a few episodes of this, and he goes in on his community! He has people from his community come on to the podcast to talk about their business and learn about storytelling and how...