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Getting started5 min

Your Claude starter map: the only 5 buttons that matter

Claude can look busy enough to scare you off on day one. It isn't. Every button that matters, labelled, with a prompt to try each one.

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Getting started5 min

The day-one Claude settings checklist

Claude feels generic when you skip its settings. Five quick toggles, two minutes, and every chat starts smarter and more like you.

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Getting started5 min

Which Claude when: the model picker, explained

That model name at the top is a menu, not decoration. Pick the wrong one and you burn through your plan. Here's the simple rule.

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Getting started5 min

Stop treating Claude like Google. Treat it like a new hire

The women who say AI sucked almost always treated it like a search engine. Onboard it like a teammate and everything changes.

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Getting started6 min

The 4 G's: a prompt formula that actually works

Goal, Gist, Guardrails, Grill me. If your prompts keep landing flat, it's not the AI. It's the brief. Here's the fix.

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Work6 min

How to set up AI that runs itself

The shift from prompting AI to handing it a goal and walking away. The 5-step setup I use, with prompts you can copy.

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Getting started8 min

Stop burning through Claude's limit. Here's how

Hitting your Claude limit before lunch is a sign of avoidable waste. Here's where your tokens are going and the habits that fix it.

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Getting started6 min

Stop asking Claude for advice. Do this instead

Stanford proved Claude agrees with you 49% more than a human would. Here's how to install the LLM Council skill and get honest answers instead.

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Getting started7 min

5 Claude prompts people put behind a paywall

A personal strategist, a book summariser, a negotiation coach, a learning guide, and an email writer. Copy and paste them straight in.

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Business6 min

7 giveaways that AI wrote it for you

The patterns that make AI writing detectable — and a copy-paste prompt to fix them so your content sounds like you again.

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Getting started8 min

The AI glossary: plain-English definitions for the words everyone uses

Context window, hallucination, MCP, RAG, agents. Every term you keep seeing, explained without the jargon.

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Life5 min

Meal plans, gifts and life admin, sorted

The low-stakes, high-relief prompts for the everyday stuff nobody hands you a manual for.

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Life6 min

Plan the week without the Sunday dread

Offload the mental load. Meals, schedules and the seventeen things in your head, organised in minutes.

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Business10 min

Your first AI-built business workflow

Pick one task that drains your week and hand it off properly. A repeatable system, start to finish.

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Business7 min

Write captions that actually sound like you

How to train AI on your own voice so it stops writing like a LinkedIn motivational poster.

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Business12 min

A month of content in one afternoon

Turn one good idea into a fortnight of posts that still sound like you, not a robot.

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Work4 min

Turn messy notes into a sharp summary

Walk out of any meeting and have clean notes, actions and an email ready before you reach your desk.

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Work8 min

Clear your inbox in half the time

The exact prompts I use to triage, reply and draft so email stops owning your mornings.

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Getting started5 min

The five prompts I'd start with today

If you do nothing else, do these. The five that turn AI from a party trick into a proper assistant.

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Getting started6 min

ChatGPT vs Claude: which one, and when

A plain-English guide to picking the right tool for the job, without the tech-bro comparison charts.

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