India, Sept. 26 -- Shrinath V had a suggestion to make: ask ChatGPT what it knows about you. Shrinath is product strategy mentor at Google. Clearly, he knew what he was talking about. So, I asked ChatGPT. But with a twist. I prompted it to write a profile of me as Hunter S Thompson, the father of gonzo journalism would. I've worshipped Thompson forever, but could never write like him. The outcome was wild. And accurate, I suspect.

He could be exacting to the point of cruelty, both to himself and to collaborators. He could drown in detail - milestone tables, citation formats, the font on a poster - and miss the larger wave. He sometimes let money, or the lack of it, dictate mood. And in love, he walked dangerous edges that cut him raw. Bu...