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335 bite-sized guides to help you get more out of AI — from setup to advanced workflows, side hustles, and career strategy.
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The Promotion-Winning Claude Habit
10 ready-to-use Claude skills that will make you look like a genius at work.
The Two-Dozen Install List: Plugins, Skills, and MCPs
The exact stack I'd set up today: 8 plugins, 8 skills, and 8 MCP servers, each with the link, the install command, and the order to install them in. Bookmark this one.
Give Claude Taste: Five Design Skills to Keep
Five skills that give Claude real taste, so your work stops looking like AI. What each one does and how to install them.
The Five Skills My Whole Life Runs On
Meal planner, fitness coach, gift manager, travel agent, and pet manager. Ready to copy and paste.
A Simple Ratio for Smarter AI Use: 60/30/10
Dharmesh Shah's clean mental model for getting more from AI. 60% Repetition, 30% Iteration, 10% Experimentation. With examples and an audit you can run this week.
AI Ads That Beat the Control: The Real Method
A 2026 Columbia + Harvard + TU Munich + Carnegie Mellon study proved AI ads outperform human-made when they don't look like AI. The Higgsfield workflow I use, the prompts, and the rule that decides which ads ship.
The Full Map for Pushing Your Career With AI
The career moves ranked by speed and payoff, then the exact playbook for the top-right corner: the brag doc system, the automated weekly report, the free certifications, and the 30-day portfolio plan.
What AI Actually Costs in Electricity
If environmental impact has been your reason to wait. The data tells a very different story than what's been spreading online. The actual IEA numbers, properly sourced.
How AI Ends Mindless Scrolling
Social media usage peaked in 2022. AI is doing the work it used to do. The Jobs-to-Be-Done breakdown plus 5 things to build with Claude this weekend instead.
Deciding Which Tasks Are Safe to Delegate to AI
A framework to figure out which of your tasks AI can actually handle.
One Prompt That Finds Your Automation Candidates
Salesforce found reps spend only 28% of their week actually selling. This prompt interviews you about your real week, sorts every task into fully automate / AI assists / you stay in control, and hands back a ranked plan with the exact setups for your top 3.
The AI Phrases to Ban From Your Writing
100 AI words and phrases to ban from Claude. Copy, paste, done.
Claude as Your Travel Agent: Flights and Hotels
The Claude Code creator just tweeted that Cowork on Opus 4.7 booked 8 flights and 5 hotels for him in one shot. The 3-step setup, the project instructions to copy, and the prompts.
The Caveman Fix for Opus 4.7's Token Appetite
A free GitHub skill cuts your Claude token use by 75% by making it talk like a caveman. Same answers, a quarter of the words. Three intensity levels and a one-line install.
Claude, Fully Configured by Tonight
Seven steps that turn Claude from a chatbot into a real assistant: your model, memory, projects, connectors, artifacts, skills, and Cowork.
Your Quick Reference for Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
One Claude Code session can now spin up tens to hundreds of subagents in parallel, with verifier agents checking the work. Here's how to turn it on, when it's worth the tokens, and 5 real workflows to run this week.
Who's in Charge: Understanding Claude's Instruction Layers
3 levels that control how Claude behaves. Most people only use one.
The Case for Claude Design
Three ways I use Claude Design that most people miss: customize free motion graphics, build in real brand styles like Apple and Stripe, and rebuild any website from its URL.
A No-Cost Legal Assistant, Courtesy of Anthropic
Anthropic just launched Claude for Legal — the model scored 90.9% on Harvey's BigLaw Bench. 3 features non-lawyers can use today: clause-by-clause contract review, cease and desist letters, and demand letters for unpaid invoices.
Three Claude Plays for Landing an Offer
Stop mass-blasting AI resumes. Three creative ways to use Claude to actually stand out, with the exact copy-paste prompts for each one.
Reflect: Claude's Answer to Screen Time Reports
Claude's new Reflect feature is like Spotify Wrapped for your AI habits. What it shows, how to turn it on, and what to automate.
Perception vs. Reality: Stock-Checking With Claude
A Claude prompt that pulls recent earnings, reads the news, and tells you whether a stock is down for real reasons or just perception. The distinction Warren Buffett built his career on. Not financial advice.
Beat the Weekly Cap: Claude Usage Strategies
If you keep hitting the Claude weekly cap, here are 5 fixes that basically end it: shorter chats, Projects for recurring context, the right model per task, batched questions, and working around the rolling 5-hour window.
My Content Pipeline Lives in Five Claude Skills
The trend scout, the script writer, the carousel builder, the comment miner, and the performance analyst. My actual content system, with every full prompt and the exact Apify setup, ready to copy.
Building a Creative Director Out of AI
Turns your ad performance, customer language, and competitor signals into briefs your team can shoot from. UGC, graphic, AI image/video, and real shoot lists.
Score Your Options: The Decision Grid
Stop spiraling. Give Claude any decision and it builds a weighted scoring framework so you can see the answer.
Find Your Track Through the Free AI Library
10 of my most useful free guides, the Claude Weekend Bootcamp, and the 5 AI Agents I have running across my own businesses — with a clear map of which one is right for you, when to use it, and how to actually leverage it.
That Viral Family Hub, Recreated in Claude
The viral app Ollie plans dinners, tracks bills, and runs your family calendar. Build the same thing free in Claude: the Family HQ project, the interview prompt, and the calendar, email, and Instacart connectors that make it run itself.
Job Titles Are Fading: The Five Roles Taking Over
The creator of Claude Code says old roles are melting into five archetypes. Find yours, plus my favorite free resources to start learning AI.
Gemini Can Now Generate Files: Why That Matters at Work
Gemini now builds Word docs, Excel files, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDFs straight from a prompt. Free for everyone. Even when your job blocks ChatGPT and Claude.
An Agent to Manage Your Google Ads
An AI Google media buyer that audits intent, protects Brand Search, and finds wasted spend most accounts are leaking. Built to be skeptical of Google's defaults.
A Claude Skill for Hormone Health
A Claude skill that pulls your cycle, sleep, HRV, bloodwork, and skin data into one place and finds the patterns no single app can see.
Your Automated Job-Listing Scout
Claude searches for new job postings every morning while you sleep. Matched to your exact role, industry, salary, and location. Wake up to your top matches with links to apply.
The Last-30-Days Research Power Move
A free skill called Last 30 Days that feeds Claude only the most recent month of internet results before it answers, with copy-paste install commands and four real use cases.
Stop the Flattery: Convene an AI Council
Stanford proved Claude affirms users 49% more than humans do. Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council prompt fixes it. 5 distinct advisers debate your decision inside one Claude chat, anonymously peer-review, and a chairman makes the call.
Scan Suspicious Files With a Claude Skill
Drop any SKILL.md into Claude. This auditor scans every line in 10 seconds, flags anything sketchy, rewrites the risky parts, and customizes the skill for the way you actually work.
Meta's Business AI Works for Free
Meta's new Business Agent answers your DMs, recommends products, and books appointments in your brand voice across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. The exact steps to turn it on, plus copy-paste instructions to train its voice, rules, and human handoff.
A Framework for Organizing Multiple Agents
JPMorgan's published 4-part architecture, mapped to a small-business stack you can build solo. One agent, one job. And a supervisor that ties them together.
Never Walk Into a 1:1 Without an Agenda
Claude reads your calendar, email, Slack, and docs from the past week. Surfaces what to raise, flags what's stuck, predicts the questions your manager will ask, and drafts the talking points. Plus a paste-ready agenda you can send 30 min before.
Codify Your Taste So AI Can Use It
A Claude skill that knows your taste better than you do. It interviews you, then reads your inbox for every booking, order, and ticket. Then tells you what to watch, eat, and read.
Three Ways Your Data Becomes a Competitive Wall
Larry Ellison's viral take: every AI is trained on the same internet, so the only edge left is data nobody else has. Three concrete ways to apply it: pull data the LLMs can't see, save the data you're throwing away, and pick the model trained on yours.
Run Your Startup Idea Through the Altman Filter
Sam Altman wrote a free startup bible. Drop it into Claude or ChatGPT with this one prompt and it pressure-tests your business idea against it, then tells you exactly where you're weak before you waste a year.
Skills and Plugins: What's the Difference?
The difference between Skills and Plugins, and which one to start with.
Train Claude on Your Voice
Train Claude to match your voice so every output reads like you wrote it.
Ask Claude for Tools, Not Just Answers
5 prompts that turn Claude into a tool-builder for your specific needs.
Vibe Coding 101: Your First Build
Build apps just by chatting with AI. No coding experience required. The 3-step workflow that prevents 95% of vibe coded apps from breaking, plus the project brief prompt that makes it work.
Plan the Perfect Weekend
Set it once. Every Thursday, Claude checks your calendar, the weather, and local events. Then builds your entire weekend plan before Friday morning.
Resume Fuel: Ten Zero-Cost AI Certificates
AI credentials from names recruiters know, most completely free with a shareable certificate. What you get from each, and the direct link.
Fifteen Hours Back: My Ten Time-Saving Workflows
Inbox triage, meeting briefs, Slack thread summaries, content repurposing, weekly file cleanup, and 5 more. The full setup prompts for every Cowork workflow running underneath my week.
Three Routes to Your Next Claude Skill
The three ways to build a Claude skill and why only one gets it right, plus the exact prompts to build a skill around how you actually work.
Cheat Codes for Claude That Hold Up
Interview Me, Socratic, ultrathink, Second Order, Inversion, plus the original 5 — the 10 prompt frameworks that completely change Claude's output. Tested against the viral lists that don't work.
Life-on-Autopilot, Chapter Five
A web harvester, a ghostwriter in your voice, a chief of staff, an interrogator, and a bodyguard that checks your work. Copy-paste prompts.
Cancel These Nine Subscriptions — Claude Covers Them
Cancel the subscriptions. The 9 jobs Claude replaces: language tutor, personal trainer, meal planner, trip planner, resume writer, business coach, social media manager, copywriter, and interior designer. Each with a deep copy-paste prompt and exactly how to set it up, including the connectors and scheduled tasks that make it run on autopilot.
What the Sharpest Coworkers Quietly Do With AI
They set up AI that knows their job, connected it to their tools, and automated their reports. Here's how to do all 5. Step by step.
Quality Over Volume: The AI Content Shift
Digital burnout is up, AI slop is killing brands. The 5 AI plays for making your content sharper instead of just louder.
Why AI Insurance Is a Coming Gold Mine
AI lawsuits exploded. ~12 serious players in the world. 3 ways to enter without being an insurance company yourself + the 4-step weekend starter.
2026's Note-Taking Champion
I tested every AI note-taking app. Only 3 matter: tl;dv, Fathom, and Fireflies. Full comparison, setup guides, and Claude prompts to get the most out of each one.
Bet on Transferable AI Skills, Not Tools
The 5 AI communication skills that transfer to every tool. Now and whatever comes next.
Self-Training AI: The 2028 Horizon
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark just gave us a 36-month calendar. Exactly what he said, the data behind it, and 5 things to start learning right now.
How Anthropic Sells With Claude
Three plays from Anthropic's own head of sales running a 4,000-account book. Daily call prep on a schedule, the Friday forecast on autopilot, and overnight scoring for every account in your book.
Canva Grew Up While You Weren't Looking
Magic Design, Magic Switch, Magic Grab. Canva is packed with AI you haven't tried. Here's how to actually use it.
Sol, Terra, Luna: OpenAI's New Trio Decoded
OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.6 as three models, Sol, Terra, and Luna. What each one is best at, what it costs, and exactly when to use which.
Every Claude Feature on One Page
Chat, Projects, Cowork, Connectors, Skills, Global Instructions, Extended Thinking, Scheduled Tasks, Dispatch, and Opus 4.7. One page. Plain English.
A Security Reviewer That Costs Nothing
Anthropic's free Claude Code security plugin flags risky code as Claude writes it. If you're building with AI but can't read code, this is your safety net. What it catches, the one-line install, and how to use it.
Four Delegation Plays Worth Hours Each Week
If you keep correcting Claude, you are the problem. The 4 moves to stop correcting and actually delegate: start in plan mode, make it ask you questions until it's 95% sure, turn on bypass permissions once aligned, and feed a living CLAUDE.md. With a copy-paste delegation kickoff prompt.
Meet Fable 5 — and Put It to Work
Claude just dropped Fable 5, its most powerful model yet. What it's best for (the hard, long, complex stuff), when NOT to use it, how to turn it on in the app and in Claude Code, the three things to know, and the 5 best prompts to try on it first. Free until June 22.
A Three-Tier Memory Setup for Claude
Claude forgets everything by default. My 3-layer system fixes it. Memory cleanup, context files, and an Obsidian second brain. Templates for every layer.
Sleeper Picks: Five Claude Plugins
Plugins turn Claude into a specific kind of worker for you. Here are five most people never touch, from Brand Voice to Operations, plus how to install them and which to try first.
Fifteen Minutes to a Claude-Powered Small Business
The complete setup for Anthropic's new Claude for Small Business plugin in Cowork. Connectors, the 5 setup steps, the first workflow to run, and the one privacy setting most owners forget to flip.
The Use-Case Gallery Hiding on Anthropic's Site
Anthropic's free use cases page is a library of real Claude examples you can filter by your exact job or by feature. The fastest way to stop staring at a blank screen and know what to actually do.
Customer Data Into Dashboards: Three Codex Builds
Three paste-in Codex prompts that turn your order, buying-hour, and review data into premium interactive dashboards. A 2D U.S. customer map, a 24-hour buying heatmap, and a marketing word map. Works with any platform you use.
Thirty Cowork Commands Worth Copying
Slash commands, file automations, connected app workflows, document intelligence, and scheduled tasks. The 30 you actually need to run your week on autopilot.
Raise Your Credit Score Methodically
Tell Claude your score, cards, balances, and limits. Get a step-by-step plan to raise your credit score as fast as possible. With exact dollar amounts, utilization math, and monthly tracking.
My Email Program Runs on an Agent Now
Runs in Klaviyo every week. Flow performance, subject-line audits, send-time wins, draft campaigns ready for approval. Email is the most underrated channel; this is how you actually work it.
Hitting Fable 5 Limits? Here's the Remedy
Stop burning your usage limit on your best model. Build a loop where your top model plans and reviews, and a cheaper, faster model does the grunt work.
Agent Number One: A Beginner's Build
3 levels of AI agents. Cowork, Claude Code, and OpenClaw. Step-by-step setup for each, even if you've never coded.
Forward Deployed Engineer: The Role Everyone Wants
Who's hiring (Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, Ramp), what FDEs actually do, salaries, and the 90-day plan to position yourself for one. Includes the non-engineer paths.
A Sane On-Ramp Into AI
You tried AI once and it was mid. That's because you used the wrong tools wrong. 4 free tools, 7 prompting rules, 5 copy-paste prompts, and a one-week action plan.
Six Overlooked Corners of Claude
Incognito mode, voice conversations, downloadable files, keyboard shortcuts, and more. Hiding in plain sight.
Describe Outcomes, Not Steps: The Intent Shift
Describe the outcome, not the steps, and get out of a smart model's way. Includes a converter prompt that rewrites any prompt for you.
Map What You Don't Know Yet
Claude pulls real job postings for your dream role, maps every skill the market wants, compares it to what you have, finds every gap. And builds a free 12-week learning plan.
Artifacts That Keep Themselves Fresh
Claude's dashboards now stay connected to your apps and auto-update. KPI dashboard, content calendar, and morning briefing. With setup prompts.
Lovable for First-Timers: Ship an App
Lovable just launched mobile. Describe your idea, it builds you a real working app. No coding. The full beginner walkthrough from idea to live product.
Meeting Prep That Makes You the Sharpest in the Room
Pre-research attendees, predict objections, steelman the opposition, draft the recap before the meeting, send 3-line follow-ups in 60 minutes. The full meeting playbook with prompts.
A Chief of Staff for Your Mornings
The full system prompt, the 5 connectors, and the schedule that drops a ranked daily brief in your Slack before you're awake. Everything I actually use.
Notion Agents: The Starter Setup
Notion just launched Custom Agents. AI teammates that work 24/7 inside your workspace. Free until May 3rd. Step-by-step setup guide plus 5 agents you can copy right now.
Write a Review That Gets You Rated Fairly
Claude scans your entire quarter and writes your self-review with real accomplishments, metrics, and impact statements.
Four Questions That Keep Claude Honest
Claude is wrong a lot. And confident about it. The 4 verification prompts I run after every important Claude answer. Each catches a different type of error. Stack all four and almost nothing slips through.
Robinhood Opens the Door to AI Trading
Robinhood just launched Agentic Trading. Here's how it actually works, the safety settings to turn on first, and the 3 ways I'd actually use it without handing over your money and walking away.
The Weekly Ritual That Upgrades Your Claude
A weekly scheduled task that makes Claude review and improve its own setup.
The Agent Behind My Follower Growth
My agent scrapes top creators overnight, analyzes my content, and sends me 5 content ideas every morning. Full technical breakdown. OpenClaw, AWS, Apify, Telegram.
Hunt Down Every Wasted Subscription
Claude scans your inbox for every recurring charge, adds up your total spend, and tells you exactly what to cancel. Saved me $200/month.
Onboard Your AI the Way You'd Onboard an Employee
MIT found 95% of companies get nothing from AI, almost never because of the model. Here's how to train it like a new hire: the 3-level setup (Project, Skills, Claude Code) and the feedback loop that makes it compound.
Wedding Planning, Claude Edition
Day 32 of 100 Days of Claude Skills. One Claude project with 5 built-in workflows: timeline, budget, vendor outreach, inbox tracking, and your full branding.
The Smarter-Workday Playbook
Practical strategies to integrate Claude into your daily work routine.
The 10 Prompts That Turn AI Into a Real Tool
Stanford proved AI defaults to agreeing with you. These 10 prompts fix that for decisions, writing, negotiations, money, and your weekly reset.
The 10-Tool Stack Behind a Seven-Figure Business
Even if you're not technical. Find a problem, build a brand, launch a product, and automate everything. With AI doing the heavy lifting. Every prompt inside.
Launch in 30 Days: The Full Checklist
The one piece of business advice I'd give everyone: ship the damn thing. A 30-day checklist to get a real first version live, with AI doing the heavy lifting. Inspired by the viral Ship or Die app.
Five Claude Projects That Cover Everything (Prompts and Connectors Included)
Career HQ, a trainer + dietitian, a personal assistant, a money manager, and a Travel HQ. The complete instructions for all 5, the exact connectors each one needs, and the file checklists. One hour, they run all year.
My Life on Autopilot, Round Two: Five More Claude Skills
Morning briefing, home maintenance, wardrobe stylist, dinner planner, and financial pulse. Set up once, use all year.
Teach Claude Who You Are With One Small File
Eight sections, the specific universal additions most people skip, a starter template, and the voice-mode prompt that builds the whole file in 15 minutes.
The $5K Design Budget You No Longer Need
Use ChatGPT Images 2.0 and Claude Design to do a full brand refresh. Logo, wordmark, colors, fonts, website, and slide decks. Step-by-step with exact prompts.
Five Websites That Level Up Your AI Design Game
The best AI designs start with better references, not better prompts. The 5 sites I use to give AI real creative direction.
Let AI Predict Your Stock Levels
Stop guessing how much to order. Here's how I use Claude to forecast what to reorder, how much, and when, plus size and color curves, forecasting new products with no history, and a weekly reorder report. Copy-paste prompts included.
The Safety Check to Run Before AI Sees Sensitive Data
OpenAI, Claude, and Perplexity all just shipped ways to connect AI to your bank. The exact prompt I run before turning on any sensitive AI connector, plus the sensitive-account checklist.
Skip the Diploma: Five AI Skills Employers Value More
Context engineering, agent orchestration, loop engineering, evals, and RAG. What each one is, why it pays, and how to start.
Keeping Up With AI Without Drowning in News
The exact 17 sources I use to stay current on AI. YouTube channels, newsletters, podcasts, creators, and Reddit communities. All free. Plus the one rule that stops the doom scroll.
The Verification Step Every Claude Answer Deserves
Use a second agent to audit the first one's work. Copy the prompt.
Your Personal Career Coach, Built in Claude
Tell Claude where you are now and where you want to be in 5 years. Get the exact path. Skills, certifications, projects, and 90-day check-ins.
Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work: Picking a Side
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work is its answer to Claude Cowork. After using both, here is which one fits which job.
My Daily Claude Code Command List
The full list of my favorite Claude Code commands, all 13, grouped by when to reach for each one, with the exact syntax and a real example for every single one.
Claude Code for People Who Don't Code
Build real tools. Client portals, dashboards, apps. Just by describing what you want. No coding needed.
The Complete Primer on Claude Design
Claude's free design tool creates pitch decks, landing pages, and marketing graphics from a description. The complete beginner's guide.
A Weekend Gig: $1K Installing Claude for Local Shops
The full $1-3K/month side hustle playbook. Pricing ladder, 5 vertical-specific Project templates (salon, dental, coffee shop, real estate, boutique), the exact pitch script, and the Friday-pitch-to-Tuesday-live delivery plan.
After Connecting Claude to Meta, Take These Steps
The Claude Meta connector is live. The 5 prompts I'm running on my own ad accounts, the safety setup, and the one feature most people are missing.
More Hidden-Gem Claude Plugins: Volume 3
Five more plugins most people never touch: Slack, Data, Figma, Enterprise Search, and Product Management. What each does, how to install it, and one example you can run today.
Getting Going With the Claude Desktop App
Everything you need to set up and start using the Claude desktop app.
Where Claude Beats ChatGPT: Five Capabilities
Discover the features that make Claude different. And why they matter.
Wire Your Gmail Into Claude
Step-by-step guide to connecting your Gmail account to Claude via connectors.
Run Claude Tasks in Parallel Instead of Single File
Cowork can run multiple tasks in parallel. 10 files went from 30 minutes to 4. Here's how.
Making Claude Plugins Your Own
Plugins are way more useful after you do this one thing.
Spot the Phishing Email Before It Gets You
Paste any suspicious email into Claude and get a verdict: legitimate, phishing, or scam. It explains exactly what gave it away so you learn to spot them. Send this to your mom.
The No-Face YouTube Channel Playbook for 2026
Most faceless channels die in a month. Here's the actual strategy that works in 2026. Niches, tool stack, and long-form vs short-form.
I Deleted My Fitness Apps: Three Claude Artifacts Took Over
Live nutrition tracker that replaces MyFitnessPal, live workout tracker with progressive overload, and an any-gym workout builder from a single photo. Three free prompts.
Five No-Cost AI Certificates That Strengthen Your CV
5 free AI certifications from Anthropic, Google, IBM, University of Helsinki, and HP. Links to all 5 inside.
The 15 Standing Orders I Give Claude
Copy these into your settings. Takes 2 minutes. Changes everything.
Never Miss a Home Repair Again
Tell Claude about your home once. Every system, every appliance, every date. It builds a full maintenance calendar and reminds you every month before something breaks.
Practice Interviews With an AI Coach
One prompt that researches the company, builds a custom question bank, runs a mock interview with scoring, and gives you a cheat sheet for the morning of.
Laid Off? A One-Month Roadmap Back to Work
Just got laid off? Three free AI certs in 48 hours. A LinkedIn rewritten for keyword search. A portfolio project that pulls inbound recruiters. An application factory that ships 5 tailored apps a day.
One Prompt, Five Advisors: Stress-Test Your Business Idea
Stop asking AI if your idea is good. This prompt makes five advisors argue it out (risk, demand, growth, competition, unit economics) and ends with a chairman's pursue-or-kill verdict, a $100 demand test, and kill criteria you write while you're still objective.
Ask Claude What It Thinks It Knows About You
Claude has memory now and has been building a profile of you since March 2026. Most of it is stale. The 3-step audit prompt that cleans it up in 10 minutes and gives you sharper outputs immediately.
Hand Your Meta Ads to Claude: The Setup
Meta just opened their ads platform up to Claude. Connect once and create campaigns, manage budgets, and pull performance data from chat. Full setup + the 5 prompts to run first. From someone who used to work in Meta's ads division.
Start Every Morning With a Kickoff Brief
Claude scans your calendar, emails, and priorities every morning. Then builds your entire daily plan. 2 minutes to a better day.
What Jensen Huang Sees Coming in the Next Ten Years
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's Stanford talk, distilled into three mindset shifts anyone can use, even if you never touch a chip.
Perplexity Plugged Into Banking: What It Means
Perplexity just plugged Plaid into their AI agent. Connect your bank accounts and get a real budget, net worth tracker, and debt payoff plan - 3 prompts inside.
The Two-Prompt Productivity Multiplier
One finds your most important goal. The other audits your week for performative productivity. Copy, paste, transform your focus.
Prep Your Site for the Bot-Reader Era
Bots just passed humans online, and your customers now ask AI instead of visiting your site. The real checklist to make sure AI can find, understand, and recommend your business, plus the robots.txt block to paste and the in-person play AI can't touch.
Six Tools, One Day: The Complete Claude Setup
Cowork, Connectors, Excel, Plugins, Artifacts, and Projects. Most people use 1 out of 6. Set up all of them today.
Socratic Mode: The Tutor That Makes You Think
Koji is going viral for guiding kids with questions instead of answers. Here's how it works, plus the copy-paste prompt and Claude Project to turn the AI you already use into a Socratic tutor that makes your kid actually think.
Your Sunday Hour That Sets Up the Whole Week
Six prompts. Six 10-minute blocks. Walk into Monday already knowing your week, your meals, your money, and your top 3. The reset I run every Sunday.
The Trip-Planning Assistant
Claude researches hotels, restaurants, and activities with real prices. Then builds a day-by-day itinerary with travel times that actually make sense.
Weekend Project List: Ten Artifacts to Try
Personal CRM, habit tracker, decision matrix, travel planner, recipe generator from a fridge photo, and 5 more. Ten interactive tools you can build in under an hour each. Full prompts inside.
Make Your Yelp Listing AI-Search Friendly
Yelp is now cited 3.4x more than any other platform when AI answers local business questions. 72.5% on Google AI Mode, 62.1% on Perplexity. Here's the playbook to actually show up in those answers.
The Year's Ten Most Promising AI Career Paths
10 roles companies are hiring for right now. The 30-day skill-build plan, the 3 portfolio pieces to ship, and where to find clients or jobs for each one.
A Substack Reading List for Real AI Literacy
These are the ten reads I send people when they want a real foundation in AI. Not the hot-take feed. The writers who've earned their seat at the table, explaining where we are, …
Switching Careers? These Three AI Credentials Help
Three Coursera certifications, under $150 total. Google AI Essentials, Google Prompting Essentials, and Andrew Ng's Generative AI for Everyone. Plus the LinkedIn setup so recruiters actually see them.
Cut Your Stack to Five AI Tools
Claude, Notion AI, Granola, Wispr Flow, and Gamma. What each one does, how to set it up, and how they work together.
Five Under-Discussed Tricks for Claude Skills
Turn any chat into a skill, fix lazy output, debug triggers instantly - 5 tricks that change how you use Skills.
One Week to AI Fluency
30 to 60 minutes a day, one focus per day. By Sunday you'll know more about AI than 95% of the people on your feed. Real actions, no theory.
AI Agent Manager: 2026's Breakout Role
Harvard Business Review says every major company is about to hire AI Agent Managers. Here's what the role is, who's already hiring, and 5 things to do this week to position yourself.
Microsoft and LinkedIn Will Certify You in AI, Free
Part 2 of my free certifications series. 3 free Microsoft + LinkedIn paths, the real URLs, and the LinkedIn add-to-profile flow recruiters actually click.
The Fluency Rubric Anthropic Uses Internally
Claude is about to grade how good you actually are at using AI — 11 habits across 3 skills: Delegation, Description, Discernment. Here's the full checklist and how to ace it.
Is Your AI Usage Stuck Two Years Behind?
Blank chats, lazy prompts, no connectors. 5 habits keeping you stuck. And 5 free Claude skills to fix each one.
Staying Safe While Going All-In on AI
My running list of AI safety tips: vet any skill before you install it, keep your keys from leaking with a .env file, and set guardrails before you connect a tool.
The Complete Agent Roster Behind My Brands
The 14 AI hires running my two e-commerce businesses and this page: who does what, what each tool is, how each connects to Claude, and the co-founder prompt at the center of all of it.
Overnight Output: Agents That Never Clock Out
My Meta Ads agent caught a broken ad at 3am and fixed it before I woke up. Why always-on, team-shared agents change everything.
Skill-Building in Claude: The Fundamentals
Create custom slash commands that automate your most repetitive tasks.
ChatGPT Agent Ideas You Can Ship Today
Inbox triage, lead response, meeting prep, Friday reports, and follow-ups. All on autopilot. Copy-paste setup instructions for each. Free until May 6.
Claude 4.7's Five Notable Changes
If your Claude outputs have felt off since the upgrade, here's why. Pulled from Anthropic's official prompting guide with the exact phrasings to use.
Rethinking What Claude Code Actually Is
Take the word "code" out of the name. You don't code, Claude does. The 5-minute install plus 3 weekend builds with copy-paste prompts.
An $85K Fellowship Bringing AI to Nonprofits
Anthropic's new fellowship pays $85,000 plus benefits to place early-career people inside U.S. nonprofits for 12 months. Under 2 years experience, no degree required. Every verified detail, the deadlines, and my playbook for standing out.
Walking Through Claude Design, End to End
Anthropic's new design tool creates pitch decks, landing pages, prototypes, and graphics by describing what you want. Full walkthrough + 7 prompts to steal.
Managed Agents: Claude's Background Brain
Anthropic dropped three new features that all point at the same thing. Agents that watch themselves, fix themselves, and improve over time. The full breakdown plus 5 simple agents you can build today.
Opus 4.8 at a Glance
Opus 4.8 just dropped. The effort dial finally hit the regular Claude app, the model got measurably more honest, and the migration notes if you build on the API. Here's how to actually use the upgrade.
Five Money Leaks Claude Can Plug
Catch sneaky renewals, buy at the right time, cut prescription costs, negotiate your bills, and audit medical charges. Copy-paste prompts inside.
Subagents That Double-Check the Work
AI checking its own work in the same chat doesn't work. The exact subagent prompts to get fresh eyes on your work, including the 3-persona panel that gives you three honest opinions at once.
The Co-Founder Agent With Total Business Context
The agent every founder should build first. Knows your goals, your numbers, your team. Manages your other agents. Pushes back when you're wrong.
Prompt Engineering's Successor: Context Engineering
Prompt engineering was the $200K job everyone chased, and it's already obsolete. The role that replaced it is context engineer. What it is, the 6 parts of context you control, a reusable copy-paste template, 3 drills to practice, and the best resources to learn it for real.
Delegate the Grind, Own the Ideas
5 ways to offload repetitive work so you can focus on what matters.
The Handoff Skill: What to Give Away
Claude pulls context from your Drive, email, and Slack. Then writes a delegation brief so thorough the other person never asks a follow-up.
Package Expert Knowledge Into a Claude File
Your AI is pulling from Reddit like everyone else's. Build a private knowledge file from premium Substacks, podcast transcripts, and X experts. And Claude stops giving the generic answer.
Figma's New Design Agent, Explained
May 20 2026: Figma shipped an AI agent that generates entire designs from one sentence. What it actually means, plus the Claude prompt that writes the creative brief any AI design tool can actually use.
Rate Yourself on the Five-Stage AI Adoption Scale
OnlyCFO's 5-level adoption ladder, extended for the rest of us. The honest self-assessment most people fail, plus the one move to climb each rung.
Live Translation Lands in Gemini
Exact app steps plus 5 business uses for Google's new Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, near real-time voice translation across 70+ languages that still sounds like you.
One Skill to Health-Check Your Google Ads
Connect your account, paste this god-level audit skill, and Claude scores your account health, finds your exact wasted spend, and ranks what to fix this week.
Claude Code Habits From Inside Anthropic
8 insider tips from the team that built Claude Code: give it a way to verify itself, plan before building, make it fix its own memory, push past the first answer, /simplify, subagents, loops, and voice. Pulled straight from Anthropic's docs.
Job Searching? Point Claude at It Three Ways
Chrome extension fills out applications for you. A Project tells you if you're qualified before you apply. Gmail tracks every recruiter and drafts your follow-ups.
A Ten-Minute Crash Course in Claude Skills
Build, install, and use your first Skill in 10 minutes. Skill-creator, SKILL.md format, plugin library, and pro tips.
Become Your Town's Go-To AI Expert
Everyone's fighting to be an online AI consultant. The real gap is your own town. The math, the model, and a god-tier prompt to build your whole local AI business plan.
The Managed Agents Update, Unpacked
Anthropic will now build, run, and manage your AI agents on their servers. What it means, how it works, and how to use it.
An Agent That Buys Your Meta Ads
An AI media buyer for Meta ads. Watches your account daily, scrapes competitors, drafts creative briefs, paused-by-default for safety. Built by someone who used to work in Meta's ads division.
Birthday and Occasion Autopilot
Claude scans your Gmail and Calendar, builds a master list of every important date, and reminds you a week early with gift ideas and a drafted message. Set it up once. It runs forever.
Four Essentials on Opus 4.7
Claude's biggest upgrade yet. It stops hallucinating, checks its own work, sees images in higher resolution, and builds more polished output. Plus 5 free skills to steal.
How Exposed Is Your Job to AI? Run the Numbers
A ready-to-use Claude prompt that analyzes your specific role's AI risk.
Negotiate Your Next Raise With AI Backup
Claude mines 6 months of your Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and Notion. Pulls every accomplishment, builds your raise case with real evidence, and writes you a word-for-word script.
The Satya-Style Learning Loop
Microsoft's CEO went viral for one line about AI and your career. Here is how to use AI so your knowledge compounds every time, and you become the person who is hard to replace.
Slack's AI Overhaul Is a Big Deal
30 new AI features powered by Claude. Meeting summaries, a desktop AI companion, reusable skills, and a built-in CRM. How to use every one that matters.
Anti-Hallucination Prompts That Actually Hold
A plain-English breakdown of why AI confidently makes things up, plus 3 copy-paste prompts to catch made-up answers before you ever trust them.
The Habit Separating Elite Claude Users
5 things to do before you send a single prompt. Workspace, context files, model settings, and standing instructions. 20-minute setup.
After Vibe Coding Comes Vibe Working
How to build AI-powered workflows that actually save you time every day.
Markdown Files, Demystified
Markdown files sound technical, but they're just plain text AI can read, and they're the foundation of every agent. The beginner crash course, plus a deep fill-in-the-blank "How I Work" template, a prompt that builds it for you, and exactly how to plug it into Claude and ChatGPT.
Ten Connectors That Make Claude Part of Your Day
There are 398 official Claude connectors. Most people use 3. The 10 worth your weekend, the 20-second install flow, and the exact prompts I run on each one.
Ten On-the-Job Uses for Claude
10 things you can set up right now to start using Claude for your job.
Audit Your AI Spend in Three Steps
Only 26% of companies actually know what they spend on AI. The exact audit New Money School runs on her businesses: one cost sheet an agent updates monthly, every dollar tied to what it produces, and caps with 80% alerts on everything usage-based. Template included.
Five More Things I Shipped With Claude Artifacts
A points and rewards tracker, a cash-flow calendar, a personal CRM, a job-hunt command center, and a net-worth tracker. One prompt each.
The Life-Automation Series, Part 3: Five Skills
Health Timeline, Car Maintenance, Documents Vault, Mental Health Check-In, and Reading & Media Triage. Five god-tier prompts. Set up once, use all year.
Seven Free AI Tools That Earn Their Place
No trials, no paywalls. Claude, NotebookLM, Perplexity, Cleo, Gamma, Grammarly, and Wispr Flow. With a link to every one.
Agents or Workflows: How to Choose
One question tells you whether to build an AI agent or just a simple workflow. The difference in plain words, when to use each, and a copy-paste cheat sheet that picks for you.
Everything You Need to Start AI Consulting
OpenAI just put $4B into a corporate AI consulting agency. The 3 takes on how to cash in (whether you sell consulting, buy it, or become the AI lead on your team) plus the prompts for each.
Career Uncertainty in the AI Era: Naming the Fog
HBR just named what you've been feeling. Toby Stuart's argument + the optionality answer + 5 specific skills to start building right now.
Three Feedback Loops to Copy Into Your AI Setup
An AI loop is just deciding how long your agent keeps working. Here are the three loops people actually run, the build-test-fix loop, the goal meta-skill, and the human approval queue, plus the commands behind them.
Ten Profitable AI Side Projects People Run in 2026
Real income ranges, real starter steps, real 30/60/90 day paths. Ghostwriting, AI agency, micro-SaaS, prompt libraries, and 6 more. Full god-tier breakdowns.
Plain-English AI Vocabulary for Normal People
Connectors, Skills, Plugins, MCPs, Agents, Cowork, Artifacts, Memory. The plain-English dictionary of every AI term you'll actually run into this year, plus how each one fits together.
Five Parts of a Prompt That Actually Works
Role + context + example + rules + format. The fill-in-the-blank skeleton that works for every task, plus 3 finished examples (the raise email, the content engine, the big decision) ready to copy.
Put Your Business Idea Through the Wringer
Stop launching businesses on a hunch. Paste this prompt into Perplexity Deep Research with your idea. Walk away 5 minutes. Come back to a full PDF. Real market data, named competitors, customer demand signals, and a GO / WAIT / NO-GO verdict.
Six Tricks Inside ChatGPT's New Image Model
Perfect text, full marketing campaigns, readable infographics, realistic handwriting, and consistent comics. 6 prompts to steal.
Claude Has Eyes: Use Screenshots More
Claude has eyes and almost nobody uses them. Two ways to use screenshots: drop in a design you love and say make it look like this, and have Claude screenshot its own work and fix what's off before it reaches you. With both exact prompts to copy.
Day-One Settings Tweaks for Serious Claude Code Users
Claude Code is powerful out of the box, but the settings that save you time and money are off by default. The 6 I turn on first: undo anything with /rewind, build your own slash command, give Claude a code reviewer, one model per project, a deny list that protects your machine, and stop clicking approve all day. With a ready-to-paste settings.json.
The Connector Update Creatives Have Been Waiting For
9 new Claude connectors automate the boring production work. Renaming layers, batch resizing, sample searching. So you spend more time being creative.
Getting Started With Claude Dispatch
Set up scheduled tasks that run automatically. Your AI working while you sleep.
Every Claude Upgrade Ranked by Effort vs. Reward
Every Claude habit ranked by payoff and setup time. The six 5-minute moves that change everything (Memory, about-me.md, the pushback instruction, more), the weekend builds worth doing, and the traps that waste your year.
Turning Claude Into a True Personal Assistant
15 new connectors that handle your real life. AllTrails, Spotify, Instacart, Uber, Resy, and more. What each one does and how to turn them on.
The Five-Step Beginner Setup for Claude
The 10-minute setup that turns Claude from a chatbot into a thinking partner. Project, About Me, Custom Instructions, voice cloning, and the behavior rules that kill the AI fluff.
Drop Claude Into Slack as a Teammate
Anthropic turned Claude into an actual member of your team inside Slack. What it does, why it acts as itself instead of as you, and the three ways teams get real value out of it.
Codex Shipped Three Features I Now Rely On
Codex just had a huge month. The three updates I actually use every week, role-based plugins, Sites for Codex, and big overnight jobs, with the exact prompts for how I put each one to work.
Seven Steering Wheels for Claude Code
There are seven ways to steer Claude Code, not one. CLAUDE.md, rules, skills, subagents, hooks, output styles, and the system prompt: what each does, when it loads, and how much weight it carries.
The Creator-Repurposing Retainer: $3K a Month
Find creators big on one platform but quiet on the rest. Run their other accounts using AI for a monthly retainer. The pitch + the system inside.
The Built-In Devil's Advocate
The skill that tears apart your ideas before the real world does. 5-part analysis on any proposal, pitch, or plan.
Do These Three Fable 5 Things Before the July Deadline
Fable 5 is included in your plan until July 7th, then it's pay-per-use. Three ways to use your smartest model now to build things you keep, with the exact prompts.
This Week in Finance AI: The Roundup
Anthropic and Perplexity both rebuilt finance in the same week. The side-by-side comparison, plan + price for each, and 3 things you can actually try this week.
The Overlooked Trick of Asking for Five Versions
Stop perfecting one draft. Ask for five versions from different angles for the same cost, and find the one you couldn't put into words.
A Free Starter Map of Today's Best AI Tools
Claude, ChatGPT Images 2, Perplexity, Asana AI, Fathom, and Gemini Photos. What each one does and when to use it.
From PDF to Skill: Convert Any Guide for Claude
Stop saving AI tips you never use. Download any guide as a PDF, hand it to Claude, and have it author a reusable skill you can run on command. Copy-paste prompt included.
My Four-Piece Blueprint for Building Agents
Every agent on my team is built the same way: Context, Connections, Workflows, Memory. The full structure with real examples from my running team.
Five Job-Hunt Skills to Install in Claude
Copy-paste skills that analyze fit, rewrite resumes, prep interviews, and negotiate salary.
Learning Mode Exists: Here Are Ten Prompts for It
A setting almost nobody knows about turns Claude into a Socratic tutor. Quizzes you, adjusts to your pace, teaches from any document you upload. 10 god-tier prompts that weaponize it for real work.
The Meta-Skill That Writes Your Skills for You
The meta-skill I built so Claude actually captures my workflows correctly. Reads the conversation, interviews you for 30 seconds, writes the skill, tests itself. Copy-paste ready.
One Conversation, One Working Shopify Store
Manus can now build, manage, and grow a whole Shopify store from one chat. The three exact copy-paste prompts: build your storefront, turn a spreadsheet into product pages, and grow with campaigns from your sales data. Plus the honest cost breakdown.
Instagram Search Just Got an AI Upgrade: Muse Spark
The first AI with direct access to Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. 10 use cases for brands, creators, and marketers. With exact prompts.
What Hiring Managers Now Screen For First
AI-first companies are hiring for curiosity, agency, and energy over experience. The data behind the shift, 3 ways to train the muscle, and how to prove it in interviews.
Let Claude Dress You
Photograph your closet, paste this skill, connect your calendar. Wake up to a full outfit picked for the weather and your day.
Pika's Founder Toolkit, Rebuilt in Claude
Pika dropped a Founder Starter Kit that lives in Claude. Connect the MCP, then run four skills in order, Build-a-Brand, App Screens, Product Sizzle, Founder Video, to turn a product idea into a full launch package. Here's the exact setup.
Realtors: Five Claude Skills for Your Listings and Leads
Listing descriptions, client follow-ups, contract analysis, neighborhood research, and open house follow-up.
Stretch Your Claude Credits Further
5 tricks to make your credits last way longer. Plus free prompts that save tokens every time you use them.
A Money-Tracking App You Build Yourself
The app that tracks where the most powerful money invests: Polymarket odds, insider buys, and Congress trades in one dashboard. Copy the prompt and build your own in Emergent in minutes.
Quit Hovering: Let Claude Work Alone
Stop hovering over Claude. Three commands make it finish the job on its own: /goal works until your finish line is met, /loop runs on repeat, and /schedule runs on a cadence. Copy-paste examples, plus the one rule that makes /goal actually work.
Five MCP Servers Small Business Owners Should Install
Every MCP is a door from Claude into one of your business tools. The 5 categories that matter most for owners, with verified setup paths for Shopify, Klaviyo, GRIN, Loox or Yotpo, and QuickBooks.
Write the Three-Year Picture of Your Life
Instead of a list of goals, write your life three years out as if it already happened. A copy-paste prompt drafts your full vivid vision with you, with AI woven in.
Picking the Right Claude Model for the Job
Understand the differences between Claude models and when to use each one.
Ten Magic Words for Sharper Claude Output
No preamble, ultrathink, no yapping, be brutal, steelman this, and 5 more. Copy-paste cheat sheet included.
The Free Component Library That Cures Generic AI Design
A free MIT component library that plugs straight into Claude Code via the Magic MCP. The 2-minute setup, the /ui prompts I use, and what to grab.
Four Claudes, One Name: Know Which You're Using
Most people only use Claude Chat. Same subscription gets you Cowork, Code, and Design too. Here's what each one is for.
Hidden Freebies: Five Official Claude Resources
Use cases library, free certifications, one-click skills, app connectors, and Claude Design. Direct links to all 5.
Squeezing Full Value From Claude Cowork
Setup, prompt structure, scheduling automations, pro tips, and the mindset shift that turns Claude from a chatbot into an employee. The complete guide.
ADHD-Friendly Claude: Five Supportive Skills
Built around how ADHD brains actually work, not against them. Task initiation, context-switch brake, future-self translator, RSD reframer, and a dopamine menu. Five full Claude Skill prompts.
Business Ideas: Why AI Brainstorms Fail and What Works
AI won't hand you a winning business idea. But used as research infrastructure, it surfaces real gaps and stress-tests your version brutally. The 3-step workflow with prompts for each: Perplexity → Perplexity → Claude.
Escaping the Default AI Aesthetic
AI design isn't bad. Your prompts are. The framework I use to write prompts that actually produce elevated AI visuals, plus where to grab 50 free Nano Banana Pro prompts from an ex-Warner Music designer.
Be the Operator, Not the Casualty
AI needs an expert directing it. Here's how to pivot from doing the work to running the AI that does it — a more senior role that should pay more — for your specific job.
Six Papers Smarter Than Your Feed
Six studies that collectively prove what's actually happening with AI in 2026 — not what your feed says is happening. Verified findings. Verbatim quotes. Direct links.
Presentations at AI Speed
Claude does the research and writing. Gamma designs it. Full walkthrough with copy-paste prompts to build decks in under 20 minutes.
Ranking in AI Answers: The Visibility Guide
People ask ChatGPT and Claude before they buy now. Here's how to actually show up: audit your visibility, restructure pages so AI can extract them, get third-party consensus, plus the technical files almost nobody adds.
Model Monogamy Is Costing You
Think with the smartest model, build with the fastest, and review with a different one. The switch-between-models workflow that wins.
Career Ladders Are Becoming Diamonds
How AI is reshaping career paths. And what it means for your next move.
A Briefing on ChatGPT's Workspace Agents
ChatGPT can now run AI agents that connect to Slack, Salesforce, and your files. And work while you sleep. Free until May 6. Full breakdown.
Context Rot: Why Long Claude Code Sessions Decay
The longer a Claude chat runs, the more it quietly ignores your rules, and most people never notice. The one-line trick to catch it in real time, plus 10 more quick Claude Code tips I use every day.
Check This Permission Before Connecting Anything
Before you connect Claude to Gmail, Drive, or Slack, set exactly what each connector can do. The three permission levels and how I set mine.
Coffee-Break Speed: Five Landing Pages With Claude Design
My favorite Claude Design workflow. The exact 5-variation brief, 5 inspo pages worth studying, and the 1-click handoff to Claude Code.
Small Business, Big Edge: Claude's Latest
Anthropic shipped a free plugin inside Cowork with 15 ready-to-run workflows, 15 skills, and direct connections to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google, and Microsoft 365. Install + first 3 use cases.
A Decision Rule for Choosing Your Claude Model
Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, or Haiku 4.5? The 5-second rule for picking the right Claude every time, plus 5 habits that save credits on every model.
Prompts That Improve With Every Use
The self-review hack that turns any Claude prompt or skill into something that gets better every time you run it. The exact 3-question REVIEW block to paste at the bottom of every prompt.
Five-Step Stock Research With Claude
Grounded Claude Project setup that turns any company's IR filings into your personal analyst. No hallucinations. Copy-paste project instructions. Not financial advice.
The VS Code Move Most Claude Users Miss
Exact steps to run Claude inside the free VS Code app instead of the desktop app, so you get model choice, free customization, and your files, AI, and tools all in one window.
Creator Toolkit: Five Essential Claude Skills
Repurpose content, vet brand deals, review contracts, test hooks, and plan your calendar.
Cowork From Zero to Power User
Master Cowork. Claude's background agent that works on files while you focus.
Design Better Date Nights
Give Claude a vibe and your zip code. It books your dinner reservation on Resy, builds a Spotify playlist for the drive, pulls directions, and lines up a backup activity nearby.
The Email Triggers Behind Every Purchase
Sell the click not the product, sell one hero not the catalog, and win on design. The three rules behind my best revenue month yet.
One Calendar to Run the Household
Claude reads your whole family's calendars every Sunday, flags every conflict, assigns every pickup. And you wake up Monday with zero surprises.
The Fitness Coach That Ignores Your Excuses
Claude reads your real Apple Health data, builds your workout plan, and adjusts every day based on how you slept, moved, and recovered. Adds workouts to your calendar.
Find What's Missing Before It Hurts You
Day 34 of 100 Days of Claude Skills. The one Claude prompt that pulls what's working in your niche AND the gaps nobody is touching. Your full 90-day content strategy in one run.
Save-Worthy: Ten Elite Claude Prompts
Pressure test, steelman, sound like me, brutal email critique, future post-mortem, and 5 more. The god-tier prompt library every professional should have on tap. Copy and paste ready.
The Straight-Answer Prompt Everyone's Sharing
Marc Andreessen's anti-sycophancy prompt. Verbatim. Plus my tighter, plain-English rewrite. Where to paste, when not to use it.
Connector Security: What's Actually at Risk
The #1 question in my DMs. 3 protection layers, what Anthropic does and doesn't do with your data, and a 5-step lockdown checklist you can run in 10 minutes.
Learn a Language With Your AI Tutor
A Claude Project that replaces Duolingo and expensive tutors. Roleplay conversations, get writing corrected word by word, read stories at your level. Any language.
Five AI Advisors to Consult Before Quitting
Stanford proved AI affirms you 49% more than a human would. This full council prompt seats the realist, the ambitious you, the financial planner, the risk manager, and your future self, then a chairman hands you a verdict, your next step, and the tripwire that flips it.
Fifteen Real Paths to AI Income
Real services, real rates, real examples. From freelance side hustles to full AI businesses you can start this weekend.
Marketers Are Sleeping on This Meta Tool
Meta AI was trained on actual Instagram and Facebook content, not the open internet. That makes it dramatically better at 3 marketing tasks: finding niche creators, reading what's trending right now, and studying a creator's voice before pitching them.
The Single File That Defines Your Claude Code Experience
One file controls how smart Claude Code actually is, and most people set it up wrong. Five tips to build your CLAUDE.md right, plus a copy-paste starter and the 200-line rule almost everyone skips.
Three Versions of Your Next Five Years
A 10-minute Stanford exercise for mapping three radically different paths for your life, with a copy-paste prompt that builds all three with you and factors AI into each one.
Put Claude in Charge of These Ten Money Chores
Subscription auditor, tax deduction finder, bill negotiation scripts, net worth tracker, credit score optimizer, and 5 more. The wealthy aren't using budgeting apps. They're using AI.
The Six-Month Promotion Prompt Pack
1:1 prep, pre-mortems, steelmanning your boss, CFO deck critiques, senior email rewrites, and 5 more. The chief-of-staff prompt library. Copy and paste ready.
From Paycheck to Portfolio: Eight Prompts
Like hiring a financial analyst for free. Eight copy-paste prompts to map your money, kill debt, build an emergency fund, automate investing, and find your freedom date. Drop in your numbers and go.
Skills, Workflows, Agents: Sorting the Three
The simplest explanation of the three layers of AI, plus a prompt to map your first real build.
Everything Inside Sonnet 5
The real numbers on Sonnet 5: pricing, benchmarks, how it stacks up against Opus 4.8, and the one thing that matters more than the model you pick.
Borrow My Taste Skill
AI drifts toward the most average answer. This skill forces it to challenge its own first draft, so your work stops sounding like everyone else's.
Amplify Strengths, Don't Patch Weaknesses
The counterintuitive AI rule almost no one is teaching. Use AI where you have judgment, not where you have gaps. The exact placement audit prompt that maps your green zones and red zones.
A Weekend of Automation: Ten Candidates
A 48-hour weekend setup sprint. Saturday morning to Sunday evening. The exact /schedule prompts and the order to set them up. By Monday at 7am, your week runs on autopilot.
YouTube In, Tutor Out
5-minute workflow using two free Google tools. Drop any YouTube video into NotebookLM, hand the notebook to Gemini, ask Canvas to build a custom interactive learning app from it. Quizzes, deep questions, the works.
Department-Sized Output: Ten Cowork Plugins
Anthropic shipped 30+ Cowork plugins. Most people use 0. Each one turns Claude into a specialist for one role. The 10 to install today, by who you are.
The 15-Book Reading List That Changed My Money Mindset
The 15 books I recommend constantly, split into the 5 areas that matter most when you're building: mindset, starting your thing, selling, money, and execution. With where to start if you only read one, plus a prompt to turn any of them into your personal AI coach.
Three AI Deceptions and How to Counter Them
Hallucination, sycophancy, and bias. Three different ways AI gets things wrong in ways that look completely right. Three one-line prompts you can paste into any chat today to fix all of them.
This Week's Five Claude Artifact Builds
Budget dashboard, brand deal tracker, trip planner, content planner, and meal planner. Five ready-to-use prompts that build real interactive tools.
Life-Running Skills, Installment Four
Status Report Generator, Sleep Coach, Commitment Tracker, Career Receipts, and Pre-Meeting Prep Autopilot. Five career-leveling skills, full setup prompts. Set up once, use all year.
Climb the Seven-Rung Claude Code Ladder
Most people never get past level 3. This is the full ladder: prompting, context, tools, MCP, skills, subagents, and agent teams, with the exact setup steps and starter files to climb one level this week.
Claude as Teacher: The Personal Tutor Setup
5 prompts that transform Claude into a patient, personalized teacher.
Creating Content With AI: The Full System
The AI niche on social media is wide open in 2026. Brands pay creators in it really well. Exact playbook to start from zero this week.
Talk AI Confidently: The Essential Glossary
20 terms every AI literate person knows in 2026, defined like a human wrote them. With real examples for each. Plus the 5 things to learn next.
The Week's Five Biggest AI Headlines
GPT 5.5, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Claude Live Artifacts, Claude Design, and Claude Code on mobile. What each one does and when to use it.
Five AI Competencies Beating a College Credential
Workflow design, advanced prompting, data analysis, tool stacking, and building AI systems for clients. How to start building each one this week.
AI Jargon, Explained for a Ten-Year-Old
LLM, tokens, context window, hallucination, RAG. The words everyone throws around, in plain English you'll actually remember.
What Founders Should Steal From Anthropic's Playbook
Anthropic dropped a 36-page founder playbook. The 3 ideas inside that actually matter for anyone building with AI, plus the adversarial-reviewer prompt that makes Claude argue against your idea.
A Tour of Canva's Second-Generation AI Features
Canva is now a full AI design agent. Conversational design, brand memory, app connectors, editable output, and Claude integration.
The 2026 Slide-Tool Showdown
OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT directly inside Microsoft PowerPoint. The honest side-by-side of every AI deck tool worth knowing, when to use ChatGPT vs Gamma vs Copilot vs Claude vs Canva.
Three Claude Credentials to Add to LinkedIn, Free
Three free certifications from Anthropic, the exact LinkedIn setup, and how to actually talk about them in interviews. AI fluency is now the wage premium.
Allow and Deny Lists: Claude Code's Seatbelt
Too scared to let Claude Code run on its own? Build an allow list and a deny list instead. You get the full speed of autopilot with guardrails it can never cross, because deny rules beat everything, even bypass mode. With my exact copy-paste lists and the steps to add them.
A Claude Project for Cycle-Aware Planning
A Claude Project that programs your workouts, meals, supplements, and schedule around each phase of your cycle, then runs itself every morning. Copy-paste setup plus the Apple Health, Calendar, and Instacart connectors that make it work.
Your Inbox Contains Five Dashboards Waiting to Be Built
Your inbox is the most underrated AI database you own. Connect Claude to Gmail and build 5 dashboards in an afternoon: travel map, hidden recurring charges, real food spending, missed refunds, and subscription price history.
A Starter CLAUDE.md That Compounds Over Time
The single Claude Code habit Anthropic's own team swears by: every time Claude makes a mistake, tell it to update CLAUDE.md so it doesn't repeat it. Here's the trick, the starter template, and the 2-week ritual.
Eleven Free Job-Specific Plugins for Claude
All 11 official plugins explained. How to install, which one to pick, and how to customize for your specific role.
Inside the Under-the-Radar Skills Marketplace
There's a hidden directory at skills.sh with thousands of free Claude skills you can install in seconds. Here's how to find the good ones, avoid malware, and install them safely.
Better Answers, Smaller Bills: Four Claude Tricks
Most viral Claude cheat codes are useless. The 4 I actually use to get better answers while burning way fewer tokens: /context to see the bloat, /compact and /clear to reset, a top model for thinking plus Haiku for grunt work, and redirecting fast. With a copy-paste token-discipline block for your CLAUDE.md.
Your First Codex Agent, Step by Step
The 15-minute setup to get OpenAI's Codex agent running on your Mac, paired with your iPhone, and shipping real work for you. Includes the 3 first prompts to try and the 5 mistakes to avoid.
Couples' Edition: Five Skills We Share
A date night planner, a weekly money check-in, a mental load splitter, a trip planner that fits both of you, and a memory keeper. The full setup for all 5, with the complete instructions ready to paste.
Track Every Card Perk in One Live Dashboard
Claude Artifacts can turn one prompt into a live, shareable checklist of every perk on your cards. Click to open the tracker I built, or grab the prompt to build your own, and stop leaving hundreds on the table.
Audit Your Email Sequences With One Skill
Connect your email data and Claude audits every flow, rewrites your weakest emails in your voice, and builds a 90-day campaign calendar.
Prompting Tricks Tuned for Fable 5
Anthropic's Fable 5 guide, distilled into three shifts that change how you use their newest model, each with a copy-paste prompt.
A One-Week Onramp to Claude
A day-by-day guide from "I just signed up" to "Claude runs half my workday." Memory, Connectors, Projects, Artifacts. Every step and prompt.
Debugging a Misfiring Claude Skill
Your Skill is probably fine. The trigger is the problem. Here’s the fix.
This Week's Five-Move AI Head Start
AI reached 53% of the world in 3 years. Faster than anything in history. Projects, Skills, Dispatch, Perplexity, Artifacts. The 5 moves that separate the top 10%.
The AI Already Sitting in Your Apps
Zoom, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, and Sheets all have AI you probably haven't turned on. What they do and how to set each one up.
Anthropic's Human-Agent Team Manual, Summarized
How the team that builds Claude actually works alongside AI agents: write everything down, set a role and a north star, use a doer-verifier, and build trust slowly. Four rules to steal.
The 30-Second Change That Boosted Code Accuracy 29 Points
Andrej Karpathy ranted about 3 things AI coding agents do wrong. Someone turned those complaints into a 65-line CLAUDE.md file. Drop it in your project folder and Claude Code reads it automatically. Setup is 30 seconds.
Make Your LinkedIn Pull Inbound Offers
LinkedIn's new AI lets recruiters search using full sentences. This skill pulls live job postings, extracts the Topic DNA recruiters want, and rewrites every section of your profile to match.
From One-Off Prompts to Self-Running Loops
The Head of Claude Code says his whole job is writing loops now. The five pieces that make one (automations, worktrees, skills, connectors, sub-agents), where each lives inside Claude Code, and the copy-paste Loop Charter that runs your first loop today.
Dinner, Decided: The Meal-Planning Skill
Tell Claude what you want to eat this week. It builds every recipe, creates the grocery list for the exact number of people you're feeding, and sends it to your Instacart. Hit checkout.
The Solo Seven-Figure Company, Powered by AI
One-person, million-dollar companies just doubled. The three most realistic ways to build a solo AI-first business, with the Stripe data and real founders behind each one.
First Five Moves for Brand-New Claude Users
The 5 setup moves that matter more than any prompt. Most people skip a couple and wonder why Claude feels like ChatGPT in 2022.
A DIY Tax Helper Inside Claude
Most people overpay on taxes and never know it. Build a free, dynamic tax tool in Claude that shows your options, with the exact prompt to create it.
Nine Months, One Assistant: Pregnancy Support in Claude
Day 33 of 100 Days of Claude Skills. Live 40-week dashboard, wearable tracking, pre-appointment one-pagers, Sunday briefs, and a full insurance estimator. One Claude project.
Fit Your Resume to Every Posting
Save your master resume once. Paste any job description. Claude spits out a custom-tailored version in 2 seconds. Mirroring the JD's language, surfacing what actually matters, and never inventing anything you haven't done.
Don't Lose the Thread: Preserving Claude Context
When a chat gets too long and starts forgetting things, trigger this and it hands you everything you need to keep going in a fresh chat. No lost progress.
Ten Sellable AI Services With $5K Price Tags
Ten productized AI services with the exact pricing, target buyer, pitch script, deliverable list, and 30/60/90 day path to your first client. Plus a service stacking strategy.
The Student's Five-Skill Claude Loadout
Study plans, lecture note cleanup, concept breakdowns, professor emails, and exam prep.
Ten GitHub Repos Worth Starring This Month
10 of the most popular, useful, and safe open-source projects on GitHub right now. Run AI on your laptop, automate your work, replace paid SaaS. No coding required to explore.
The Watchlist: Seeing Top Operators Use AI
Karpathy filmed 2 hours of how he actually uses AI every day. The full watchlist with what to steal from each video, the right watch order for your level, and the watch-along prompt that turns viewing into practice reps on your real work.
Wispr Flow: The App I Trigger 300 Times Daily
Wispr Flow turns your voice into clean, edited text. Anywhere you type. My hacks for getting the most out of it.