Instead of asking AI for answers, command it to ask you questions. Use the "Context, Role, Interview, Task" (CRIT) framework to turn AI into a thought partner. The "Interview" step, where AI probes for deeper context, is the key to generating non-obvious, high-value strategies.

Instead of trying to craft a perfect, detailed prompt, Andrew Wilkinson tells the AI his high-level goal and instructs it to "ask me a shitload of questions to determine your prompt." The AI then conducts a 5-10 minute interview, gathering all necessary context to produce a superior result.

Instead of disparate tasks, unify your personal AI's purpose around a single goal: closing the gap between your documented current reality and your articulated ideal life. The AI then becomes a proactive system for navigating this transition and facilitating self-improvement.

To create detailed context files about your business or personal preferences, instruct your AI to act as an interviewer. By answering its questions, you provide the raw material for the AI to then synthesize and structure into a permanent, reusable context file without writing it yourself.

Consolidate your values, goals, and principles into a single document. Upload this "master prompt" to an AI before any query, ensuring all responses are tailored to your unique context. This transforms a generic tool into a personalized advisor that understands you deeply.

To create a highly personalized agent, don't just write its personality file. Instead, ask the new agent to generate a questionnaire about your goals, then answer its questions to give it deep, specific context for its own setup.

The CRIT (Context, Role, Interview, Task) prompt framework transforms AI from a simple tool into a thought partner. The key is the 'Interview' step, where you instruct AI to ask you probing questions, uncovering blind spots and elevating your strategic thinking to a top 1% level.

To overcome the "imagination gap," describe your roles and challenges to an AI and ask it to interview you. Based on your answers, the AI can generate a personalized list of problems it can solve, acting as a discovery engine for its own capabilities.

Don't just give AI a task; give it a job title. Prompting it to act as a "calorie tracker" or "critical mentor" transforms generic advice into personalized, role-specific guidance that actively helps you achieve your goal, rather than just providing abstract information.