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Using ChatGPT in Your Personal Life is a Good Way to Learn How to Use ChatGPT, Professionally

By Kevin O'Keefe on February 19, 2023
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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT in your personal life is a good way to learn how you can use GPT in your professional life. 

How so?

Following Jill’s death, I have found I like memoirs by authors who have lost a loved one, ideally a spouse. 

I particularly enjoyed reading Left on Tenth : A Second Chance on Life by Delia Ephron and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Dideon. 

Last night something made me think of asking GPT, as someone who has lost a spouse, what other memoirs I might enjoy. 

I was provided a list of ten, after I prompted it for five more, after reviewing the fist five. 

The list received, with reasons why I may like each memoir, was pretty good. A few I had already read. 

I may ask it which memoirs address the loss of a loved one to cancer.

Struck me as a wow, that was something I’d never done before. Turning to AI for suggested books. Made me realize the impact this AI was going to have on my life.

Sitting in a coffee shop, now, I was curious what music GPT may suggest I listen to.

I asked GPT for artists similar to Joan Armatrading. I have liked her for years. GPT gave me a pretty nice list, again with descriptions for why I may like each artist. 

I am listening to Sade, an artist who I had not heard before. She’s pretty good.

I am learning that GPT represents a new way of doing things. A new way to be exposed to things in which I have an interest. A new way to learn something. A new way of gathering info I may have never gathered – quickly. 

It’s possible I’d have turned to Google, Amazon or Apple Music to gather such info. In some cases like this, I would have gone with no info or asking others. 

Learning how ChatGPT can be an effective tool in our professional lives – lawyer, blogger, or whatever – is going to take some.

A good way to learn how is to use ChatGPT in your personal life. You’re then likely to become more imaginative in how you may use GPT in your professional life.
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Photo of Kevin O'Keefe Kevin O'Keefe

I am a trial lawyer, turned legal tech entrepreneur, now leading the largest community of legal publishers in the world at LexBlog, Inc.

I am a lawyer of 39 years. Wanting to be a lawyer since I was a kid, I have loved…

I am a trial lawyer, turned legal tech entrepreneur, now leading the largest community of legal publishers in the world at LexBlog, Inc.

I am a lawyer of 39 years. Wanting to be a lawyer since I was a kid, I have loved almost every minute of it.

I practiced as a trial lawyer in rural Wisconsin for 17 years, representing plaintiffs, whether they were injury victims and their family members or small businesses.

In the mid-nineties, I discovered the Internet in the form of AOL. I began helping people by answering questions on AOL message boards and leading AOL’s legal community.

I later started my own listservs and message boards to help people on personal injury, medical malpractice, workers compensation and plaintiff’s employment law matters. Though we were green to technology and the Internet, USA Today said if my firm “didn’t stop what we were doing, we would give lawyers a good name.”

In 1999, I closed my law firm and we moved, as a family of seven, to Seattle to start my first company. Prairielaw.com was a virtual law community of people helping people, a sort of AOL on the law, featuring message boards, articles, chats, listervs and ask-a-lawyer.

Prairielaw.com was sold to LexisNexis, where it was incorporated into Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com.

After a stint as VP of Business Development at LexisNexis, I founded LexBlog out of my garage in 2004 (no affiliation with LexisNexis).

Knowing lawyers get their best work from relationships and a strong word of mouth reputation, and not promoting themselves, I saw blogging as a perfect way for lawyers to build relationships and a reputation.

When I could not find someone to help me with my own blog, I started a company to provide what I needed. Strategy, professional design, platform, coaching, SEO, marketing and free ongoing support.

As a result of the outstanding work of my team of twenty and my blogging, the LexBlog community has grown to a community of over 30,000 legal professionals, world-wide.

Publishing my blog, Real Lawyers, now in its 18th year, I share information, news, and commentary to help legal professionals looking to network online, whether it be via blogging or other social media.

Blogging also enables me to think through my ideas – out loud and in an engaging fashion.

In addition to my blog, I liberally share others’ insight on Twitter. Feel free to engage me there as well on LinkedIn and Facebook.

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