How I used ChatGPT in 2025
As a scribe, thought partner, counselor, and a tool for reflection.
One quiet but significant change in 2025 was how I used ChatGPT.
I used it more than any other AI tool — more than Claude, Perplexity, or anything else. Partly because it became freely accessible, but mostly because it fit naturally into how I think and work.
Primarily, ChatGPT became my scribe and editor.
I dictate a lot — while walking, while reading, sometimes while a thought is still half-formed. I ask it to rewrite in my voice, not to smooth things into generic prose. Over time, by correcting it when it drifted, it learned how I sound. That alone reduced the friction of writing. Thoughts that would earlier remain in my head now made it to the page.
Second, it became a thought partner.
Whenever I wanted to reason through something — financial decisions, product ideas, writing structure — I used ChatGPT in a ping-pong fashion. Not to be told what to think, but to sharpen my own thinking. It behaves like an encyclopedia that can narrow itself to exactly what I need at that moment.
Third, it became a tool for reflection.
At the end of each month, I would do a short retro with ChatGPT. I would dump what had happened and ask questions like: What did I do well? What should I stop doing? What patterns do you see? The answers weren’t always accurate, but they were useful starting points. Because I had been consistently adding context, the reflections were often surprisingly close.
At times, it even functioned like a counselor.
Because it knew what I had shared — my work, my faith, my habits — I could ask questions about my own tendencies, strengths, and blind spots. I don’t outsource self-knowledge to it. I still test these insights against close friends and lived reality. But it became another mirror — imperfect, but useful.
I will continue to use ChatGPT the way I use any other serious technology: intentionally, critically, and as a means — not an authority.
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