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Working with AI

Prompting, memory, and getting real work out of the model, including knowing when not to trust it.

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  1. SoN Vol 2, Issue 1: Stop Prompting Better. Start Programming Your Gaps.

    Something shifted over the holidays. Since Claude Code Opus 4.5 launched in November, a pattern has emerged among knowledge workers using Claude Code with their Obsidian vaults…

    6 min read

  2. SoN 34: What Will You Vibe Code Next Year?

    What Will You Vibe Code Next Year? Back in July, I wrote about vibe coding and the beginner’s mind — that Zen concept of approaching things with openness and curiosity rather than…

    6 min read

  3. SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year

    Last week I asked Claude a simple question: “What patterns do you see in how I’ve been working this month?” Some hours later, I was reviewing a complete redesign of how I approach…

    7 min read

  4. SoN 31: The AI Productivity Treadmill

    Claude Opus 4.5 dropped last week, and I haven’t stopped building since. I’ve connected half a dozen MCP servers to my workflow, written migration scripts that moved years of…

    6 min read

  5. SoN 30: Four Questions That Fix Your Prompts

    Most prompts fail before you hit enter. Not because of the AI model nor because of token limits or temperature settings. They fail because you haven’t actually figured out what…

    6 min read

  6. SoN 29: The Godfather of AI’s Warning Isn't What You Think It Is

    A slight departure this week towards something more topical. Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the neural networks that power modern AI, Then he…

    6 min read

  7. SoN 26: The System of Building Your AI Style Guide

    Last week, I wrote about why your personal voice matters, and how AI can act as an accessibility layer to help your voice become a differentiator and rise above all the 'AI slop'…

    5 min read

  8. SoN 25: Writing With AI Isn't Cheating — It's an Accessibility Tool

    Part 1 Using AI isn’t cheating. It’s an accessibility tool. Some people have brilliant ideas but struggle with formal expression. Some communicate differently due to…

    6 min read

  9. SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI

    One Year of Writing About AI, Five Months of Actually Filtering It A year ago, I started writing “The Download”—a newsletter about tech, productivity, and emerging AI tools. By…

    4 min read

  10. SoN 22: How to Write AI Instructions That Actually Work

    Dear Reader, (Psst, this is a long one - so if you can't get through the whole read at once, that's cool - but make sure you scroll down to the end to find out about the launch of…

    10 min read

  11. How AI Changed My Build vs. Buy Process

    AI has fundamentally changed what's possible for small businesses and individual operators.

    8 min read

  12. Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)

    Data-driven timing optimization beats guesswork every time.

    6 min read

  13. GPT-5 Reality Check: Why Your Framework Matters More Than the Latest Model

    Dear Reader, Well it’s been a week since release and everyone’s still talking about ChatGPT-5. Most can’t access it, and those who can have mixed reviews at best. The GPT-5…

    6 min read

  14. Your AI Assistant Is a Yes-Man (And Why That's Dangerous)

    I came across this meme on social media this week: “The dumbest person you know is being told ‘You’re absolutely right!’ by ChatGPT.” Source: X/Twitter So maybe now’s a good time…

    5 min read

  15. How to Spot AI Generated Text

    AI should make you more efficient at being yourself, not more efficient at being generic.

    7 min read

  16. Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)

    Prompts are not magical incantations, they're conversations.

    4 min read

  17. “Zero Effort” AI is a Myth, and It’s Holding Us Back

    Every "zero effort AI" promise is a lie, and believing it is making us worse at our jobs.

    6 min read

  18. Stop Writing Prompts, Start Building AI Assistants

    How to Build AI Assistants That Actually Work for You With the SHAPE Framework

    5 min read

  19. How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want)

    Stop getting weird AI responses. Learn the PAST framework for writing prompts that actually work. Get clear, useful results every time.

    6 min read

  20. Real Stories: AI Success in Content Management

    How AI automation cut content audit costs by 94% - from 6 months manual review to 2 weeks orchestrated analysis. Real case study with results.

    6 min read