Another great adaptation is doing it while out walking, running, working on land, etc... We may eventually see the end of desk-bound labor! As a working parent, being able to talk to an LLM while doing other activities has made my limited time more spacious. And yes, Terrific! At least you didn't say la dee da.
I’ve been dictating my first drafts for over 15 years. I broke my arm on a book deadline and my editor suggested I try Dragon Dictate, the old pre-LLM standard. You kids today don’t know how easy you got it. When I started we had to do everything in Shatner Voice. American accent… with… lots of… random… stops.
The Wispr Flow point resonates — talking a draft out loud seems to catch bad logic faster than typing does, probably because you hear the gaps in real time instead of just seeing clean sentences that hide them. My friends and I actually have a rule: whoever brings up work first buys the next round. Good to know a two-hour conversation with zero business talk is still the gold standard, even in a newsletter about ideas.
Nice idea — filing that away for when we get there. Still elementary school here, so I've got a few years before I need it, but the "read it out loud" trick clearly works at any stage of writing.
"Terrific" is to the 70s, as "rad" is to the 80's, as "phat" is to the 90's...etc.
Another great adaptation is doing it while out walking, running, working on land, etc... We may eventually see the end of desk-bound labor! As a working parent, being able to talk to an LLM while doing other activities has made my limited time more spacious. And yes, Terrific! At least you didn't say la dee da.
Oh man! I forgot about Type Attack!
I’ve been dictating my first drafts for over 15 years. I broke my arm on a book deadline and my editor suggested I try Dragon Dictate, the old pre-LLM standard. You kids today don’t know how easy you got it. When I started we had to do everything in Shatner Voice. American accent… with… lots of… random… stops.
The Wispr Flow point resonates — talking a draft out loud seems to catch bad logic faster than typing does, probably because you hear the gaps in real time instead of just seeing clean sentences that hide them. My friends and I actually have a rule: whoever brings up work first buys the next round. Good to know a two-hour conversation with zero business talk is still the gold standard, even in a newsletter about ideas.
Yeah, I’ve been making my son read his college admission essay out loud on each draft. Much more effective.
Nice idea — filing that away for when we get there. Still elementary school here, so I've got a few years before I need it, but the "read it out loud" trick clearly works at any stage of writing.