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Six ways to get things done
Choose the job you want off your plate.
Build
12 min
“Everything about hiring changed this year.”
The guideRun your job search with Claude
Build
12 min
“No Canva. No designer. Just my taste.”
The guideHow to build Instagram carousels in Claude
Rhythm
15 min
“Every morning, ChatGPT tells me exactly what to do.”
The guideHow to set up dots, your always-on assistant in ChatGPT
Build
14 min
“I have three business jobs waiting for me.”
The guide8 business jobs to try with your dot
Rhythm
10 min
“The little jobs keep taking half my afternoon.”
The guideHow to use Meta’s Muse for 9 everyday tasks
Rhythm
11 min
“Wait, the AI can make the phone call?”
The guideHow to use Fo for 9 calls and errands you keep putting off
Make videos with Claude in pure code: the prompts, the process, and what I learned
How to make a film with Claude using only code, with no image or video model: the exact prompts, how to edit one thing at a time, how to export a real MP4, high-fidelity scenes, and the mistakes to watch for.
Build a life dashboard in Claude: the two-hour start and the full system
Everything about building a life dashboard in Claude: connect your apps, create the artifact, and build the habit in two hours. Then grow it into a full system with scheduled sweeps, safety rules, buttons, and a desktop pet.
The holidays are a job. Five Claude setups that run them.
A gift sheet that researches itself, 24 nights of Elf on the Shelf, every event on the calendar, the whole dinner from guest list to cart, and every thank-you already drafted. All five setups, with every prompt.
How to run your whole life on Claude Duet
Get on the waitlist first, then set it up: the morning message, the work it finds for you, what it never sends without you, what to watch, a channel for each part of life, and the big jobs. With prompts to copy.
How to make an on-brand pitch deck in Gamma 5
What Gamma 5 actually is, what makes the new agent-led version great, and the full walkthrough for a pitch deck that looks like your company: the starter prompt, the brand pass, animations, and the honest plan notes.
ChatGPT's new dots feature owns my to-do list now
How to set up dots, ChatGPT's new always-on agent, to run your entire to-do list: the setup, the context to give it, the exact prompt I used, and which ChatGPT plans have it.
How to use Claude inside Excel (no formulas required)
Get Claude running inside Excel in a few minutes: what plan you need, how to install the add-in, what it looks like, the prompts to start with, how to check its work, and a budget tracker built live from a blank sheet.
Build a record-player planner with ChatGPT or Claude
The free guide to daily records, focus blocks, purposeful motion, and a real Notion + calendar backbone. Includes 10 copyable prompts and a starter kit.
Claude or ChatGPT? Choose the right AI for the job
A choice chart, 3 everyday prompts, sample briefs and a scorecard.
Learn to direct and review AI work
Two occupation examples, specific feedback prompts and a reusable review worksheet.
Turn your voice note into a Notion to-do list
Talk through your mental load. Get a ranked task list, a Notion dashboard and help finishing the first task.
Let Claude handle the school morning mental load
Connect school sources, get the bag list, put the brief in your calendar and look 14 days ahead.
Google Search Console + ChatGPT for Instagram
Connect your Instagram, understand Google discovery and use two ChatGPT workflows.
Get more from the ChatGPT you already have
Connect your tools and use five workflows, including a coordinated marketing launch kit.
150 one-word photo commands that never touch your face
Photo Prompts is a free skill with 150 one-word commands, /goldenhour, /classicchrome, /quietluxury, that restyle any photo while preserving your exact face, pose and outfit. Works in ChatGPT Codex and Claude. Free download, MIT licensed.
ChatGPT edits my Reels: the free editing guide
The full workflow: give Codex a home for your editing, set up HeyGen HyperFrames, build an editing guide around your taste, and edit in rounds. Free starter kit, every prompt, and all the templates included.
Four email addresses. Five life categories. One dashboard.
How I used ChatGPT and Codex to build a private, unified email command center around my actual life: the signature map, the category system, the unresponsive tab, and every prompt I used to get there.
How I hired three AI employees
The full build for three AI employees on Grok Bot: a life assistant that runs the calendar and inbox, a sales manager with his own email address, and a growth marketer who fixes the ads instead of reporting on them. Job descriptions included.
Three ad prompts that sell your product
Turn one phone photo into three high-converting product ads with ChatGPT: the attention grabber, the relatable, and the proof. The exact copy-paste prompts, the fill-in brief, and how to iterate past AI slop.
Three agents that run the kid stuff
Three copy-paste Claude agents for parents: a 7am pack list that knows the weather, a school news agent that reads every school email for you, and a kids event agent that fills your calendar on its own.
The Business Coach
Turn Claude into your personal business strategist, built from the frameworks of 100 of the greatest business books. Free download, installs in 2 minutes, works for strategy and for the conversations you are dreading.
The Claude Duet and Claude setups that run the school year
Claude Duet watches the school email and messages you first. Plus homework you can play with, a one-message sick day, party invites, every date on the calendar, and the rest of the setups, with the exact prompts.
Build a calendar audit agent that briefs you every week
Connect your calendar, write one context file about your priorities, and schedule a weekly audit. It finds conflicts, checks the weather, tells you what to wear, suggests meals, and builds the grocery list. Copy and paste blocks included.
New to Claude? The full setup, from zero to it actually working
The complete beginner guide: where to sign up, the desktop and phone apps, which plan to pick, desktop access, context files, connectors, projects, skills, and recurring tasks. Everything in one place, in order.
Build an email agent that runs your inbox
A live dashboard that reads your inbox, sorts it by what matters, and drafts every reply before you even look. Connect Gmail or Outlook, build an artifact in Cowork, and prompt it. About ten minutes, three steps.
Closed vs open weight: what it means to actually own an AI model
Everyone says open source AI, but what are you really downloading? A plain-English guide to closed vs open-weight models, what open weight actually is, the three ways to host one, and how to get Kimi K3.
Build a website with AI: the whole playbook, from idea to live
My complete guide to building a real website with AI. Design it, make it collect and send info, and put it live on your own domain for about $20 a year. Three phases, one weekend, no code.
Teach Claude your voice: build a caption skill that writes like you
The three-step way I turned my own voice into a skill Claude runs every time. Upload captions you love, coach it through samples until they are perfect, then have it save the whole thing as a skill. Includes a copy-paste prompt with my real caption rules.
Day one with Claude: the cheat sheet I wish I'd had
Claude runs half my life now, but on day one I had no idea what I was doing. Three steps to set it up: brain dump into one file, talk to it like a person, and hand off one weekly task.
3 things to type into Claude that make it way smarter
Most people are using maybe 10% of Claude. These are the three cheat codes I use every day: voice mode, one magic line, and making it argue with itself.
Build a 5-minute AI morning briefing
One saved prompt that turns your calendar, inbox, and to-do swirl into a two-minute read with your coffee, and makes the 5am routine actually pay off.
3 things Claude does for me on a schedule (so I never have to remember)
The morning brief, the Monday audit, and the monthly subscription check. Set them up once, and stop carrying your to-do list in your head.
Planning a career change with AI as your thinking partner
A career change is a hundred small decisions. How to use AI for the honest inventory, the market research, the money math, and the plan.
I ran ChatGPT and Claude side by side for 6 months. Here’s the honest answer.
I run a tech company and have two toddlers, so I need AI that actually works. I used both every day for six months. It’s not close.
I run my home like I run my company. 3 things Claude handles in the background.
Dinner ordered, subscriptions audited, the birthday party planned. It’s not magic. It’s me handing off the parts of my life I was bad at.
Turn a messy idea into a clear plan
You have an idea, a business, a project, a big change. Here’s a step-by-step AI process to turn the swirl in your head into a plan you can actually start.
I hire on a team of 200. I haven’t read a real resume in 18 months.
Anyone can have AI write a perfect resume now, so resumes tell me almost nothing. Here’s what I actually look at, and what to build instead.
The only AI tools you actually need (and the ones you can skip)
There are thousands of AI tools and you need about four. An honest, hype-free starter kit for a busy life, plus how to evaluate the next shiny thing.
Use AI to get an hour back, every day
A realistic daily AI workflow for busy women: five recurring tasks to hand off, how to set them up once, and what to do with the hour you reclaim.
ChatGPT for real life: 10 things to try first
New to AI? Skip the hype. These are the ten most useful things to try in your first week, practical, specific, and built for an actual busy life.
Write anything faster: emails, posts, and the hard messages
A practical system for using AI on everything you write, including the messages that are hard because they’re emotional, not because they’re long.
The 15-minute weekly meal plan (with AI)
One Sunday session: a week of family dinners, a sorted grocery list, and no 5pm scramble. The exact prompts, the system, and how to make it stick.
What not to share with AI: privacy basics for real people
You don’t need to be paranoid to use AI well, you need five simple rules. What’s safe to share, what never is, and the settings worth two minutes of your time.
How to talk to AI: prompts that actually work
The difference between a useless AI answer and a great one is the ask. Five plain-English prompting principles, no jargon, with before/after examples.
Plan your next trip with AI (without losing the magic)
From "somewhere in October" to a booked, kid-proofed itinerary: the prompts that do the logistics so you can spend your energy on the wonder.
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