From the books
Sample chapters, excerpts, and worked examples based on our ebooks.
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The Expensive Part Of Content Is Not Writing. It Is The Rewrite Loop.
Ask most people where their content time goes and they will say writing. Watch the actual session and it is something else: a first draft arrives in twenty seconds, it…
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Your Model Is Not Being Vague. Your Request Is Underspecified.
What this note is aboutHere is a complaint you have either made or heard this month: the answer was fine, but it was generic, and by the time I fixed…
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Why Your AI Drafts Sound Generic (And the 4 Constraints That Fix It)
You can tell. Three sentences in, you can always tell. “In today’s fast-paced world.” “It’s worth noting.” “This transformative approach.” “Let’s delve into.” None of these phrases are wrong, exactly.…
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The $149 Device That Costs $653: Two Prompts for Auditing Recurring Charges
START HEREThe $149 Device That Costs $653: Two Prompts for Auditing Recurring ChargesTwo copy-paste prompts: one before you buy hardware, one before you enter card details. Both run in a…
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How to Summarize a Lease with AI Without Trusting a Clause It Invented
A 25-page lease arrives as a PDF with a “please sign by Friday” note. You scroll to the signature line, click, and hope nothing on pages 9 through 17 costs…
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AI Prompts for Life Admin: 4 Constraint-First Recipes That Return a Usable Plan
Most advice about “using AI at home” fails for a boring reason: it hands you a chatbot and a blank box. You type plan a family weekend, get a list…
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Five Reasons Your Everyday AI Prompts Come Back Unusable
You try a chatbot for something ordinary — a billing dispute, three quotes that need comparing, a message you have been avoiding for a week. The answer comes back fluent,…
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The One-Page AI Recipe: Four Blocks That Get Admin Work Done in Under Five Minutes
This is a free, re-edited excerpt from Chapter 2 of our English ebook Stop Typing, Start Asking. It is the whole format, not a teaser of one — read it,…