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We all have different ways of learning; some of us prefer text, some instruction, and others visually. I naturally prefer reading text at the start of learning a new topic or concept, prefer instruction when i’m trying to put that thing to action, and default to visuals when trying to understand something after getting stuck.
Claude is great for learning visually now that it can create interactive artifacts and has been helping me better understand some of the recent topics i’ve been writing about, such, as how to understand financial statements and Viable Systems Models (VSM), and i want to give you the prompt i’ve been using today. But first, lets see it in action by asking Claude to help me understand VSM, the Rumsfeld Matrix and produce an interactive compound growth calculator.
I then moved on to ask Claude to explain the Rumsfeld Matrix:
The ‘UNKNOWN’ category at the bottom was misplaced, but this time Claude produced a clickable quadrant where you could further explore one of the categories by clicking on it. I clicked ‘unknown unknown.’
Claude then produced another static visual. Again, there was a small error as Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010 not 2009, but you can just let Claude know and it will fix it.
And finally i asked Claude to produce a compound growth calculator. I purposely left out the word ‘interactive’ to see if it produced a static image like above, but it produced an interactive version which is what was needed for this instruction. Here’s one screen grab:
And another after messing with the four interactive bars:
I hope this helps those of you who prefer learning visually or are looking for a prompt to help you create on brand interactive visuals.
Until next time, Karl.
Download the prompt by clicking the link. It will force you to download the document, so don’t worry, that’s normal.
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