Free AI Tips
Notes on AI strategy, antifragile personal brands, and making AI the driver of your economic engine. Things you can own and use.
Your AI Remembers Everything. That's the Problem.
Everyone organizes their notes. Almost nobody organizes their AI, and the AI is the one reading everything on every turn. PARA sorts by how actionable something is, not by subject. Four moves, and the three things an audit always finds.
Run the four movesHas Your AI Ever Told You No?
Almost every AI policy governs the human at the keyboard. The person was not the one hallucinating. The three layers of AI governance, the conduct layer almost nobody builds, and a thirty-second test.
Take the test5 Things to Never Paste Into an AI Chat
The model is not the risk. The paste is. Five inputs to keep out of any AI chat, the reason for each, and the one-page policy you can write in an hour. Governance does not have to start where it is meant to end.
Read the fiveAI Doesn't Rank Your Website Anymore. That's Not the Same as Not Needing One.
AI doesn't rank your website anymore. That is not the same as not needing one. Mentions are made on rented ground and only one address is yours. What answer engines actually reward, the login wall almost nobody is pricing in, and the counter-evidence.
Read the evidenceThe Reference Folder: Give Your AI Current Knowledge
Every model has a training cutoff. The software you use every day does not. That gap is why your AI describes a menu that moved and sounds certain doing it. Pick your tool, take a paste-ready instruction and a downloadable Claude skill, and stop letting it guess.
Build your reference folderWrite One File. Stop Re-Explaining Yourself to AI.
Most AI frustration is a missing brief, not a weak model. The seven blocks of a claude.md standing-orders file, a free fill-in-the-blank template, and the PARA structure that keeps it working.
Get the templateROMTI: What Your Prompts Actually Cost
Paste a real prompt, pick your model across Claude, Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT and Grok, and watch the bill build. Most people find their own words are under 1% of it.
Run the simulatorAI Ownership: The Trend the SaaS Wave Didn't See Coming
Enterprise models vary and careers change, but your foundation shouldn't. A 30-minute guide to owning your own AI, so your setup, skills, and strategy outlast any platform.
Read the guideWhat Using Fable 5 Taught Me About Return on Token Investment
I spent 75% of my time with Claude's Fable 5 not using it. That was the plan. Strategy is everything with AI, and here's the metric worth stealing: Return on Token Investment.
Read the essayMicrosoft 365 Copilot, in the Right Order
Don't adopt Copilot backwards. A goal-first playbook: set the goal, sequence your AI (Claude first, then Copilot), then use Wave 3 agents to execute across Excel, Word and Outlook.
Read the guideBuilding an Anti-AI Brand Isn't the Flex You Think It Is
The compassion and relatability you gain now by positioning against AI isn't worth the credibility you'll lose later. AI is a maximizer of your gifts, and it's in a malleable state where the choices we make right now decide what comes next.
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