Using ChatGPT to write emails you actually want to send — companion videos

The article focuses on the small moves — tone, context, recipient — that take a ChatGPT draft from "obvious AI slop" to "an email I'd actually hit send on." This video gives you a couple of named techniques (prompt reversal, the red-team rewrite) that map directly onto the email use case and explain why your second pass tends to be the keeper.

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4 ChatGPT Hacks that Cut My Workload in Half

Jeff Su

The "red team technique" section is the missing piece in most ChatGPT-for-email tutorials: write the draft, then ask the model to roleplay the recipient who gets fifty cold emails a day and tell you which sentences make them hit delete. That feedback loop is exactly what the article means by "emails you actually want to send," and Jeff demonstrates it on a real cold outreach email in under three minutes.

What you should get from this: Use AI to draft email faster, then pressure-test tone and clarity from the recipient's point of view.

Watch or know first: None — just bring a real email you've been avoiding writing.

AI Expert note: Only part of the video is about email; the red-team rewrite section is the piece that pairs with the article, so don't feel obliged to adopt all four hacks.

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