“Post-it notes won’t scale.” That’s the opening punch in Jim’s latest episode, and honestly, it’s the perfect summary for the chaos most of us feel every time we open ChatGPT or Claude. If you’ve ever found yourself sifting through a jumble of half-baked ideas, code snippets, and forgotten dinner plans in your AI chat history, you’re going to want to tune in. Jim takes us on a walk through the mess—and then shows us the exit.
The main focus here? Projects. Not just as folders for your chats, but as persistent, context-rich workspaces that actually remember what matters to you. Jim breaks down how, up until now, every new AI chat is like talking to someone with amnesia. Re-explaining your preferences, re-uploading docs, teaching the same lesson again and again. Projects, he argues, are the fix: set things up once, and your AI becomes an extension of your brain, not just a glorified search bar.
He dives into how ChatGPT and Claude approach Projects differently. ChatGPT acts like the operating system for your AI work—connecting voice, image, code, and text, all with slick image generation baked right in. Claude? It’s the heavyweight for long, technical docs, with double the memory and a semantic map that actually understands your uploads.
Key takeaways? Don’t treat your AI like a digital junk drawer. Projects are the difference between digital Post-its and a real, scalable system.
“Stop treating your AI like a Magic 8-Ball. Start treating it like the powerful workspace it can be.”
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