Chat GPT is a tool with better and worse uses.
One tenet of the Circuit Breaker podcast it's the importance of unpacking. Jobs Theory is built on the idea of understanding contexts, pushes, pulls, habits, anxieties, and so on. Language (rather than behavior or internet browsing history or smart watch activity data) is the preferred tool.
But it takes unpacking.
Make it easier.
It was an impulse purchase.
I bought whatever was on the shelf.
What exactly do these mean? Unpack!
Chat GPT accelerates unpacking. Sometimes that works, sometimes not.
Think of a different tool, like books. What is the outcome of reading a book? Completion is easy to count but is meaningless. It’s reflection, application, and use that “we get it”.
Similarly, a book doesn’t replace experience. Clayton Christensen, Bob Moesta’s collaborator, wrote about disruption theory. His books are an abstraction of his experience. Books as tools rely on the reader’s understanding, the author’s clarity, and (again) the application.
When, how, and why is a theory the right tool?
To a hammer, everything is a nail. Which is great! Hammers are the perfect tool for nails. But they also smash thumbs and sometimes screws are better. It depends.
Homework 1: Ask, ‘why am I using this tool?’
Homework 2: Carve out time to think.
Jobs isn’t the be-all-end-all tool. It’s one tool, like Chat GPT. The better the collection of tools the less we are blind men around the elephant.