Skills
This is how to talk to AI so it stops being generic
The #1 reason AI gives you horoscope answers: you asked a horoscope question. Skill one, and the one every other skill stands on.
This is how to use AI.
Not someday. Not at work. Right where you're standing: the store aisle, the waiting room, the lease you're about to sign. Tested first, explained plainly.
How the site fits together
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Feel it work
Three moments to try today. One saved afternoon changes what you think this is.
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Pick up the skills
The transferable techniques behind every moment. Learn once, use everywhere.
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The foundations
What AI actually is, what to trust, and why you are not late.
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Real projects
Life-sized jobs run with AI over weeks, not minutes. The first one is live.
Pick your moment
Everyday Life
Moves, interviews, confusing mail, packing lists. Use AI on the ordinary logistics that quietly eat your week.
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Health
Doctor visits, lab results, meals, workouts. Use AI to walk into appointments prepared and walk out actually understanding what happened.
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Hidden Powers
Things most people don’t realize AI can do yet. Point a camera at your problem and watch.
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Home
Paint, furniture, plants, contractors. Use AI to see how a decision will look and feel before you spend the money.
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Learning
Confusing news, dense documents, new skills. Use AI like a private tutor who adjusts to exactly what you already know.
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Money
Bills, leases, big purchases, negotiations. Use AI to tell whether the number in front of you is fair — before you sign anything.
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Relationships
Dates, disagreements, hard conversations, meaningful gifts. Use AI to think clearly about the people who matter.
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Shopping
Groceries, gifts, electronics, secondhand finds. Use AI to buy the right thing instead of the most-marketed thing.
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Travel
Itineraries, museums, menus, tourist traps. Use AI like a local friend in every city you visit.
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Start with these
Foundations
You’re not late
Everyone quietly suspects everyone else already knows how to use AI. Here’s the same feeling from 1997, and why it was wrong then too.
Health
This is how to use AI before your doctor’s appointment
The average appointment is 15 minutes. Here’s how to walk in with the right questions instead of remembering them in the parking lot.
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Projects
This is how to use AI to plan a move, part 2: moving week
The truck comes Thursday. Part 2: load-out order, the long drive with kids and a dog, and the first 48 hours in the new place.
Projects
This is how to use AI to plan a move, part 1: the six weeks before
The first Project on this site: a real move, run with AI from "we got the place" to the truck pulling away. Part 1 is the six weeks of before.
Foundations
This is how to think about kids and AI
Your kid is already using it, or will be by spring. The realistic version of what to do about that, from the same playbook as every other screen.
Foundations
This is how much to trust AI, decision by decision
Not a philosophy debate. A working dial: what to accept as-is, what to verify, and what AI never decides, sorted by what’s at stake.
Foundations
This is how AI gets things wrong, and why it sounds so sure
It will invent a plausible answer rather than say "I don’t know," and it will do it in the same confident voice. Here’s the shape of the failure and how to live with it.
Foundations
This is how AI actually works, in plain English
No math, no jargon, one honest mental model. Once you know what it’s actually doing, everything else on this site makes more sense.
Relationships
This is how to use AI to plan a date someone will actually enjoy
"We should do something Saturday" doesn’t have to end in dinner-and-a-movie autopilot. Describe the actual person; get an actual plan.
Skills
This is how to show AI instead of telling it
Half of what you’d struggle to describe, you can photograph or attach. Skill five: your camera and your files are inputs.
Skills
This is how to make AI push back on you
By default, AI is agreeable. That’s pleasant and useless. Skill four: turning the yes-machine into an honest second opinion.
Skills
This is how to make AI ask you the questions
You don’t know what context matters. It does. Flip the interview and watch the real problem surface. Skill three.
Hidden Powers
This is how to use AI to decode every mystery symbol on your car’s dashboard
That amber icon you’ve been ignoring for three weeks. One photo tells you if it can wait for the weekend or shouldn’t wait at all.
Skills
This is how to never accept AI’s first draft
The first answer is the averaged answer. The value lives in the second and third turn, and most people never take them. Skill two.