🏴‍☠️ 30 Ways to Think Deeper

Why Fires Keep Returning

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Captain YAR
October 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

You’re probably solving the wrong problems. It’s a super common trap we all fall into, we spend all our energy putting out fires, only to watch them flare up again a week later.

It’s incredibly frustrating, and it happens because we’re treating the symptoms, not the actual disease. I just saw an amazing post from this industry pro who laid out a brilliant way to break this cycle using AI.

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Get to the Real Root Cause

The mind behind it explained that with the right prompts, you can turn ChatGPT into a powerful tool for root cause analysis. Instead of guessing, you can systematically dig down to find what’s really going on under the surface. This contributor shared a whole list of prompts designed to do exactly that, helping you move from frantic fire-fighting to strategic problem-solving. I was blown away by how structured the approach is.

Here are a few of the core techniques the post highlights:

  • Five Whys Analysis: This is a classic for a reason. The original poster suggests a prompt that makes ChatGPT ask “why” five times in a row. It forces you to go from the surface-level issue (“the report is late”) all the way down to the foundational reason (“the data access permissions were never set up correctly”).

  • Fishbone Diagram (Ishikawa): For more complex problems, this method is awesome. The creator shared a prompt to build a textual fishbone diagram, breaking down potential causes into six key areas: People, Process, Technology, Materials, Environment, and Management. It gives you a 360-degree view of all the contributing factors.

  • Timeline of Events: Sometimes you can’t see the cause because you’ve lost track of the sequence. The post’s author has a prompt for that, too. It makes the AI reconstruct a timeline leading to the issue, which helps pinpoint the exact moment things went wrong and where you could have intervened.

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To give you a taste, here’s one of the most comprehensive prompts the post’s author shared for defining a problem clearly. I think it’s a perfect starting point for any analysis.

Prompt of the Day:

“I am facing [describe the issue in detail]. Help me define this problem clearly by restating it in one sentence, breaking it into measurable components, and distinguishing between the symptoms and possible hidden causes. Present your output in structured table with columns: Symptom, Impact, Possible Hidden Cause.”

Credit to Adam Biddlecombe

This is just a sample of the value packed into the original post. The talented creator actually shared 30 of these prompts in a handy infographic!

If you want to stop running in circles and start solving problems for good, you need to see the full list.
Go check out the original post for all the details.

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