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Paul Ollinger

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

that are generally like things that happened to me or some observation I'll make in the world, and I'll tie it back to some lesson, right? It's secular sermons, if you will, that have some potty jokes and are pretty damn funny if I've achieved my goals. And so what I'll do is say, here's 50 essays I've written over the last however many years, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

that are generally like things that happened to me or some observation I'll make in the world, and I'll tie it back to some lesson, right? It's secular sermons, if you will, that have some potty jokes and are pretty damn funny if I've achieved my goals. And so what I'll do is say, here's 50 essays I've written over the last however many years, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

that are generally like things that happened to me or some observation I'll make in the world, and I'll tie it back to some lesson, right? It's secular sermons, if you will, that have some potty jokes and are pretty damn funny if I've achieved my goals. And so what I'll do is say, here's 50 essays I've written over the last however many years, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

Well, there you go, right? Curb your enthusiasm, but with a It's something like that. It's something like that. And you feed it, you upload what you've written and say, this is my voice. And I'm interested in writing about, take an item from the news, like tariffs. And I'm not looking to state a point of view on tariffs.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

Well, there you go, right? Curb your enthusiasm, but with a It's something like that. It's something like that. And you feed it, you upload what you've written and say, this is my voice. And I'm interested in writing about, take an item from the news, like tariffs. And I'm not looking to state a point of view on tariffs.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

Well, there you go, right? Curb your enthusiasm, but with a It's something like that. It's something like that. And you feed it, you upload what you've written and say, this is my voice. And I'm interested in writing about, take an item from the news, like tariffs. And I'm not looking to state a point of view on tariffs.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

I'm just saying, give me some thoughts on what's a point of view on tariffs that's interesting. Or I think this is, you know, I think I want to write about tariffs. Give me three examples of why tariffs could be good or tariffs could be bad. Just to start the mental exercise of getting things going. And then, you know, I think what's one thing that AI is really good for in writing is editing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

I'm just saying, give me some thoughts on what's a point of view on tariffs that's interesting. Or I think this is, you know, I think I want to write about tariffs. Give me three examples of why tariffs could be good or tariffs could be bad. Just to start the mental exercise of getting things going. And then, you know, I think what's one thing that AI is really good for in writing is editing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

I'm just saying, give me some thoughts on what's a point of view on tariffs that's interesting. Or I think this is, you know, I think I want to write about tariffs. Give me three examples of why tariffs could be good or tariffs could be bad. Just to start the mental exercise of getting things going. And then, you know, I think what's one thing that AI is really good for in writing is editing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

I'll spend a few hours writing something and I'll take, you know, an 800 word draft or whatever it is and upload it to multiple different GPTs and say, tell me how I can make this better. Can I make it shorter? Can I add more examples? Can I use better language? Am I repeating words? Things like that. It's an editor. It's a really effective editor. It's not perfect, but it's very, very effective.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

I'll spend a few hours writing something and I'll take, you know, an 800 word draft or whatever it is and upload it to multiple different GPTs and say, tell me how I can make this better. Can I make it shorter? Can I add more examples? Can I use better language? Am I repeating words? Things like that. It's an editor. It's a really effective editor. It's not perfect, but it's very, very effective.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

I'll spend a few hours writing something and I'll take, you know, an 800 word draft or whatever it is and upload it to multiple different GPTs and say, tell me how I can make this better. Can I make it shorter? Can I add more examples? Can I use better language? Am I repeating words? Things like that. It's an editor. It's a really effective editor. It's not perfect, but it's very, very effective.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

And so when I actually take it to my human editor at some point, I'm not wasting his time. I'm giving him a very well-polished draft. And he always has things that he can help me improve. But everything gets better because I've done the work with something to help me think through getting it to 95% before I get it to 100%. Does that make sense?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

And so when I actually take it to my human editor at some point, I'm not wasting his time. I'm giving him a very well-polished draft. And he always has things that he can help me improve. But everything gets better because I've done the work with something to help me think through getting it to 95% before I get it to 100%. Does that make sense?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

And so when I actually take it to my human editor at some point, I'm not wasting his time. I'm giving him a very well-polished draft. And he always has things that he can help me improve. But everything gets better because I've done the work with something to help me think through getting it to 95% before I get it to 100%. Does that make sense?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

It can't quite. It's not there yet. I mean, it will get there. It will get there. Look, I was having this conversation with a comedian, a very smart, very smart, very funny comedian named Zain Sharif in Atlanta today. And Zane, what I love about him is he writes beautiful, well-crafted jokes.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

It can't quite. It's not there yet. I mean, it will get there. It will get there. Look, I was having this conversation with a comedian, a very smart, very smart, very funny comedian named Zain Sharif in Atlanta today. And Zane, what I love about him is he writes beautiful, well-crafted jokes.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

It can't quite. It's not there yet. I mean, it will get there. It will get there. Look, I was having this conversation with a comedian, a very smart, very smart, very funny comedian named Zain Sharif in Atlanta today. And Zane, what I love about him is he writes beautiful, well-crafted jokes.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

And we were both lamenting how, you know, the crowd work videos are what Instagram and TikTok, you know, what their algorithms promote just because that's who knows why.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Paul Ollinger: From Sibling Rivalry to Comedy and Career Success

And we were both lamenting how, you know, the crowd work videos are what Instagram and TikTok, you know, what their algorithms promote just because that's who knows why.