I ended up here in desperation after trying a couple of other ways to write up my thoughts as posts. I tried narrating, stream-of-consciousness style, into Claude hoping it would help me, but then it wrote a whole essay itself. It was too much Claude, and not enough me. I didn’t like it. I did find the structuring work that Claude did useful, so I asked it to do this instead. I found it much easier to respond to questions that are already structured than to extemporize right out of my head the heap of chaotic thoughts about a topic.
I ended up here in desperation after trying a couple of other ways to write up my thoughts as posts. I tried narrating, stream-of-consciousness style, into Claude hoping it would help me, but then it wrote a whole essay itself. It was too much Claude, and not enough me. I didn’t like it. I did find the structuring work that Claude did useful, so I asked it to do this instead. I found it much easier to respond to questions that are already structured than to extemporize right out of my head the heap of chaotic thoughts about a topic.