JULY 11, 2025

• PromptCraft: Unpack Your Regrets, Give Prompts Direction, and a Prompt to Replace Your Community Manager
• Don't Let AI Steal Your Boring​
• THE HEADLINES
• Tool Spotlight: Promptmonitor Maps Your Brand’s AI Presence

Unpack Your Regrets, Give Prompts Direction, and a Prompt to Replace Your Community Manager

• ​Turn ChatGPT into Your Community Manager – Copy-and-paste prompt tells GPT to plan a weekly content calendar, answer FAQs, triage DMs, and surface sentiment dashboards so you get a full-stack social manager without head-count. Reddit​
• ​Reflect on Your Journal With AI – Day-One users share a four-step “emotional patterning” prompt that summarises tone, surfaces recurring themes, and coaches you on actionable next moves, turning raw diary exports into insight. Reddit​
• ​Your Prompt Isn’t Weak—It’s Aimless – Thread argues that great prompts create consequence: ask GPT to simulate future trade-offs and rate options against time-bound constraints for output you can actually act on. Reddit​
• ​Regret-Unpacker Prompt – A compassionate Q-and-A script that inventories lingering regrets, teases out lessons, and reframes them as growth milestones—no toxic positivity, just solid cognitive re-appraisal. Reddit​

Friday Thoughts: Don't Let AI Steal Your Boring

Ever notice how breakthrough ideas rarely show up while you’re staring at a cursor?

They sneak in while you’re rinsing a coffee mug, trimming the hedges, or surrendering to a 15-minute walk you swore you didn’t have time for.

In other words, boredom breeds breakthroughs. And, if you're not careful, you could end up allowing AI to take that away from you.

Why the gaps matter

• Cognitive white space: When we shift into low-stakes, physical tasks, the brain’s default-mode network lights up, connecting dots we didn’t know were related.
• AI’s workflow loop: We prompt → wait → refine → repeat. That loop is linear and structured; inspiration is anything but.
• Human edge: Unstructured moments are where intuition flourishes, giving us the raw material that AI can later help shape.

Build more “in-between” time into your day

1. Micro-break rule: Every 60–90 minutes, step away for five. Fold laundry, wipe down the counter, stretch. Do something mildly active and mindless.
2. Analog buffer: Keep a notepad nearby. When a stray idea lands mid-dish-washing, jot it, then return to the suds.
3. Movement meetings: Swap one status call a week for a walking voice memo. Fresh air plus conversation sparks odd connections.
4. Digital guardrails: Set a hard stop on consecutive AI iterations (e.g., three passes), then force a physical break before the next prompt. Watch how the fourth pass suddenly levels up.
5. Evening download: Before bed, write three sentences about any idea fragments that surfaced during the day. Sleep will start stitching them together.

When you come back to the screen, AI feels more like a sculptor’s chisel than a back-seat driver. Your unstructured minutes have given you the clay. AI just helps you mold it faster.

So, schedule fewer “heads-down” blocks and budget for more white noise. That’s where the next big idea is already waiting, impatiently, for you to find it.

Give it a try today: close this tab, walk the block, and see what bubbles up. Then let your favorite model turn that spark into something tangible.

• ​AI device startup that sued OpenAI and Jony Ive is now suing its own ex-employee over trade secrets (Yahoo Finance)
• ​New capabilities in Amazon SageMaker AI continue to transform how organizations develop AI models (Amazon Web Services)
• ​Why Nvidia Will Still Lead AI for the Next Decade (Bloomberg.com)
• ​Blurring the Lines of Reality: Creating Characters That Are Robots or AI (BookTrib)
• ​BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think (Gary Marcus)
• ​What Amazon’s new hardware to cool Nvidia chips means for our AI stocks (Barron's)
• ​Pope: AI development must build bridges of dialogue and promote fraternity (Vatican News)
• ​Lawyers for MyPillow CEO fined for using AI-generated court filing (The Daily Beast)
• ​You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst (WIRED)
• ​AI-Generated Child Abuse Webpages Surge 400%, Alarming Watchdog (Bloomberg.com)
• ​This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator (BPR)
• ​‘Incredibly Orwellian’: An AI Expert on Grok’s Hitler Debacle (politico.com)
• ​AI chef takes charge at five-star restaurant as new tech creeps into fine dining (New York Post)
• ​Poland presses EU to open probe into Grok’s ‘erratic’ behavior (POLITICO)
• ​Controversial Grok AI Coming to Tesla Vehicles, Musk Says (Forbes)
• ​EU code of practice to help firms comply with AI rules will focus on copyright and safety (Reuters)
• ​The Real AI Race: America Needs More Than Innovation to Compete With China (Foreign Affairs)
• ​Asia shares edge higher on Nvidia rally, shrug off Trump tariff moves (Reuters)
• ​Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome (Reuters)
• ​AI Titan Nvidia Becomes First $4 Trillion Company Ever (Forbes)
• ​Super Micro plans to ramp up manufacturing in Europe to capitalize on AI demand (Yahoo Finance)
• ​Microsoft, OpenAI Partner With AFT to Train Teachers on AI (Education Week)
• ​Hour of AI – Code.org (Code.org)
• ​“That white guy who can’t get a job at Tim Hortons? He’s AI.” (Yahoo News)
• ​Samsung debuts new AI features powered by Google Gemini (video) (YouTube)
• ​This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went (STAT)
• ​MedGemma: Our most capable open models for health AI development (Google Research)
• ​The AI Scraping Fight That Could Change the Future of the Web (The Wall Street Journal)
• ​Microsoft Elevate: $4 Billion Pledge Toward AI Education (The Official Microsoft Blog)
• ​Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome (Reuters)
• ​Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser (TechCrunch)
• ​Elon Musk claims Grok was “manipulated” after antisemitic posts (Forbes)
• ​Google’s AI spending is primarily on technical infrastructure (Reuters)
• ​AI-generated child sexual abuse videos surging online, watchdog says (The Guardian)
• ​Your Prize for Saving Time at Work With AI: More Work (The Wall Street Journal)

Promptmonitor Maps Your Brand’s AI Presence

​Promptmonitor lands squarely in the new discipline of “generative-engine optimisation.” As consumers stop Googling and start asking ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok for buying advice, the tool shows marketers how often (or how rarely) their brand turns up in those AI answers.

Drop in your URL and, within minutes, you get a visibility score for every major LLM plus a list of the exact pages each model cites when it does mention you. That citation log comes with domain-rating data, backlink counts and even author emails, so you know whether to pitch the publisher for a mention or out-write them with a stronger page.

Where things get interesting is the workflow automation layered on top.

Promptmonitor tracks competitors side-by-side, flags sentiment shifts in the way AIs describe your company, and can generate an LLMs.txt file—a sitemap-style spec that feeds models the right context on every crawl. Local marketers can pin visibility down to a city block, and global teams can filter by any of 650-plus tracked models and dialects.

Pricing starts at free (20 monthly credits, one project) and scales to daily refreshes and multi-seat dashboards, making it easy to test whether AI chat traffic is the next big channel before you commit budget.

For brands already seeing ChatGPT crack their top-three referral sources, Promptmonitor offers the data—and the outreach cues—to stay there.

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