Money
This is how to use AI before buying a used car
Two listings, one budget, and no way to tell which cheap car gets expensive later. Compare ownership-cost categories before you even call.
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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
When the input is ordinary or public, a tight photo or document page can explain more than a paragraph. Skill five: show only what the task needs.
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 dashboard icon needs a name. Use a photo to find the exact manual entry, then let the car and a qualified human set the urgency.
Skills
This is how to never accept AI’s first draft
The first answer is often the broadest one. The value appears when you correct its assumptions and ask for pushback.
Health
This is how to use AI to make dinner from what’s already in your fridge
It’s 6pm, the fridge is a museum of unrelated ingredients, and delivery is winning. Take one photo before you order.
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.
Travel
This is how to use AI to translate menus, signs, and conversations while traveling
The menu has no photos, the waiter is waiting, and Google Translate gives you words without meaning. Your camera can do better now.
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.