Lessons
Three-minute lessons for the thing that keeps going wrong
One skill per lesson. Read it, do it on your own work as you go, and you are finished in about three minutes. Free, no account, nothing to sign up for.
in progress · we are writing the first ones
What a lesson is
One skill, start to finish. What to open, what to type, what you should see back, and what to do when it comes back wrong. Written so you can follow along with your own work open beside it.
Three minutes is the target, and five is the ceiling. Anything that needs longer is the wrong size, and we split it into two. No theory, no tool comparison, no reading list.
Where we're starting
The first lessons answer the questions people hit before any specific task: the things that go wrong every time, whatever you are using AI for. Lessons for particular jobs come after these.
- I don't know what to use it forYou have access to AI and no sense of which parts of your week it should touch. This is the most common place to be stuck, and the one worth fixing first.
- I get a wall of text I can't useYou asked a straight question and got five paragraphs. What to change so the answer comes back in a shape you can act on.
- It sounds confident and I can't tell if it's rightHow to spot the parts worth checking, what to check them against, and when to stop trusting the answer.
- It doesn't sound like meWhy the writing comes out generic, and how to get something you would be willing to send.
- I don't know if my work is safe to put inWhat happens to what you type, what the settings mean, and how to decide what stays out.
Tell us what to write
The list above is where we are starting. If your problem is not on it, that is worth knowing, and it is how the next lesson gets chosen.
Ask about your own problem
Describe what you are trying to do and where it stops working. We answer by email, and the answer often becomes a lesson.
Ask a question →Request a lesson
Tell us the skill you want written up. It goes on the list, and the ones asked for most get written first.
Request a lesson →If you would rather have someone walk you through it
The lessons are free and always will be. When the problem is bigger than a lesson, consulting covers it. That is also where team training on your own work lives.