📋 Key Takeaways
- Four-layer transformation incantation: Role → Rules → Constraints → Examples — never skip a layer
- Writing a Role is not writing a résumé — inject a philosophy in three sentences that define how this person sees the world, so the AI "thinks first, answers second"
- Use the three-layer dive (Phenomenon → Essence → Philosophy) to turn a hero into a runnable Role, then bind the four layers with XML tags
- Summon grandmasters: Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, Linus, or the true giant in your own field — they stand not across from you but behind you, inside you
- Today's second Golden Hoop: Leverage — the same you, with the right prompt, gets answers from the AI you could never have reached alone
🎬 Video Replay
YouTube: https://youtu.be/QY-rqOvW0Ao
🔧 Materials
- ⚔️ Convention of Heroes · Student Walkthrough (reproduce the live demo at home in 10 min) ↗
- 📩 User Case · Jamie (laid-off founder) ↗
- 📝 S2 Homework 1 Guide (warm-up · heropedia.org) ↗
- ✏️ S2 Homework 2 Guide (to submit · summon a master) ↗
- Paul Graham — YC Office Hours Role Prompt ↗
- Peter Thiel — Zero to One Advisor Role Prompt ↗
- Marc Andreessen — PMF Diagnostician Role Prompt ↗
- Linus Torvalds — LINUX.md (Bill's actual production prompt) ↗