The Library
AI, one useful thing at a time
Every lesson here is free, uses the free plan of one tool, and assumes you have never done this before. Start at lesson one and go in order — the whole point is that you finish one tool before anyone introduces you to a second one.
No bootcamp. No 47-part video course you'll abandon at part 3. Just the next useful thing.
Open the whole library
The first two lessons are open to everyone. Add your email and the rest unlock right now.
No card, no trial, no upgrade screen — every lesson is free and stays free. Your email is the only key, and one click takes it back.
Super beginner. You've never used an AI tool — or you tried once, closed the tab, and want a refresher. Every lesson here assumes zero experience, uses the free plan, and goes one small step at a time.
ChatGPT, start to finish
One tool, one step at a time, from opening the app to running real work through it. No second tool until this one is genuinely useful to you.
- 1.Open ChatGPT and say somethingGet a free ChatGPT account, understand what you're looking at, and have your first genuinely useful conversation — in about ten minutes, without paying anyone anything.6 min · ChatGPT · Free
- 2.Teach it about you once, in settingsSet up memory and custom instructions so ChatGPT stops asking who you are every time — step by step, with what to put in and what to leave out.7 min · ChatGPT · Free
- 3.Set an alert and let ChatGPT watch for youPut ChatGPT on watch duty — a restock, a hearing, a model update, the next full moon — so it tells you instead of you remembering to check.8 min · ChatGPT · Free · auto-alerts need ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) · ✦ Email to open
- 4.What to actually type in the boxThe one prompt formula that fixes vague answers — who you are, what you want, what it's for — plus five copy-paste examples from real business life.6 min · ChatGPT · Free · ✦ Email to open
- 5.Have it write the email you've been putting offThree copy-paste prompts for the money emails everyone avoids — a late invoice, a price increase, and saying no to a discount ask.6 min · ChatGPT · Free · ✦ Email to open
- 6.It wrote something wrong — now what?Why ChatGPT sometimes states wrong things confidently, how to ask it for sources, what to never paste in, and a two-minute habit that catches the rest.6 min · ChatGPT · Free · ✦ Email to open
- 7.Reuse your best prompts without retyping themSearching your chat history, editing your last message instead of starting over, and a phone note for the prompts that actually worked.4 min · ChatGPT · Free · ✦ Email to open
- 8.Turn one thing you wrote into five things you needPaste something you already wrote and get the email, the caption, and the text-message version out of it — without starting over each time.5 min · ChatGPT · Free · ✦ Email to open
Everything else
Standalone answers that don't belong to a track yet.
You own a business, or you run one's back office. You're past "what do I type" and want systems — repeatable workflows, templates, and ways to make AI do the same job for you every week without re-teaching it.
Field notes
Short, timely takes when a genuinely useful AI tool or feature ships — what it is, whether it matters to a one-person business, and the one thing to do about it.
- Comment on the page, and the AI makes the editClaude Code artifacts now take comments — tag @claude on a shared page and the edit just happens. How it works, and the honest catch.9 min · Claude Code · claude.ai · Free to read · comments need a Claude Team or Enterprise plan · ✦ Email to open
- The one-character upgrade for your CLAUDE.mdYour AI's briefing file has become a junk drawer. One @ sign turns it into a filing cabinet — same knowledge, suddenly findable.9 min · Claude Code · Free to read · Claude Code itself needs a paid Claude plan · ✦ Email to open