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Nobody taught you the internet in a weekend either. Feel it work, pick up the skills, let it absorb into your life.
You don’t need to become an “AI person.”
In 1997, plenty of smart people privately believed they’d missed the internet. They hadn’t; there were just layers of learning nobody had named yet. Same thing now, with a new primitive. (The long version of that argument is You’re not late, and if you read one thing on this site, read that.)
Here’s the shape of the site, in the order most people find useful. It’s a path, not a program; wander freely.
Feel it work once
Don’t study anything. Pick whichever of these is closest to your actual week and do it today:
- A bill you don’t understand: photograph it before you pay it
- A quote that smells high: break the price apart in two minutes
- A fridge with “nothing” in it: one photo, three real dinners
One saved afternoon rewires what you think this technology is for. That’s the only goal of step 1.
Pick up the skills
Every moment on this site runs on a small set of transferable techniques, the way good googling was really one skill wearing different outfits. They live under Skills, they’re learnable one at a time. Start with these three:
- Talk to AI so it stops being generic: context is the whole game
- Never accept the first draft: the value lives in turn two and three
- Make it ask YOU the questions: the interview flip
Five are up so far; still coming: one chat per problem, checking its work, what never to paste, when not to use AI at all, and second opinions.
Run something real with it
Projects are multi-part guides for life-sized jobs, run in one ongoing AI conversation over weeks. The first one is live: planning a move, start to truck. A job hunt and a renovation are on the way. They all live under Projects.
The three rules behind every post
- Context beats clever prompts. The magic isn’t magic words; it’s telling the AI your actual situation: your budget, your constraints, what you already tried.
- AI is a second opinion, not a verdict. For anything involving your health, your money, or your legal rights, AI helps you show up prepared; the final call belongs to you and the professionals you trust.
- If it doesn’t save you time or money this week, it doesn’t get published. No think pieces about the future. Just things you can use before dinner.
Browse by the moment you’re in
- Money: bills, leases, big purchases, negotiations
- Health: doctor visits, lab results, meals, workouts
- Home: paint, furniture, plants, contractors
- Travel: itineraries, museums, menus, tourist traps
- Learning: confusing news, dense documents, new skills
- Shopping: groceries, gifts, electronics, secondhand finds
- Relationships: dates, disagreements, hard conversations
- Everyday Life: moves, interviews, packing, life admin
- Hidden Powers: things most people don’t realize AI can do yet
This is how to use AI.