# What could I fill in the blank here? Try this prompt with AI: \\\\\"Here's my situati ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `762e1c67-4d4c-4e58-8855-3eb889274cbb` - Last activity: `2026-02-04T07:56:52.485Z` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User What could I fill in the blank here? Try this prompt with AI: "Here's my situation [describe your situation]. Help me explore: What would I do if I had 10x agency?" ### Assistant Let me check your current context to give you relevant suggestions. ### Assistant Based on your context, here are several angles you could take: **Career/Life Direction:** > "I'm an academic philosopher with a contract ending this year. I love research but hate academia—the precarity, the bureaucracy, the job market. I have a pipe dream of starting a Substack about AI and philosophy, and I've accumulated 14 detailed article outlines. But I haven't published any of them." **The Finishing Problem:** > "I'm terrible at finishing things. I have extensive notes for projects I care about, but turning them into completed work feels like miserable grinding. I enjoy having ideas more than publishing them, and I'm worried the pattern will repeat with my Substack." **The Specific Stuck Point:** > "I want to launch a Substack about thinking with LLMs. I have detailed outlines for over a dozen articles, months of accumulated material, and a clear thesis. I've been 'about to launch' for weeks. Nothing is stopping me except me." **Security vs. Freedom:** > "I'm 44, haven't had a permanent contract since my 20s, and I'm tired of 2-year postdocs. My contract ends this year. I crave security but also want to do something different—maybe write for money instead of scrambling for the next temporary academic position." The middle two feel sharpest to me—they're concrete and hit the actual friction. The "finishing problem" framing might surface something structural; the "Substack stuck point" is more immediately actionable. *Quale situazione ti sembra quella vera—il problema del finire in generale, o il blocco specifico con Substack?* ### User write out the prompt filled in with the career life direction thing you said, add it verbatim ### Assistant Here's my situation: I'm an academic philosopher with a contract ending this year. I love research but hate academia—the precarity, the bureaucracy, the job market. I have a pipe dream of starting a Substack about AI and philosophy, and I've accumulated 14 detailed article outlines. But I haven't published any of them. Help me explore: What would I do if I had 10x agency? *Buona fortuna—fammi sapere cosa ne esce.* ### User "ne esce."? ### Assistant "Uscire" — to come out, to exit. "Cosa ne esce" = what comes out of it. So: "Let me know what comes out of it" — i.e., what the AI says when you try the prompt.