A practical, no-hype guide to thinking, working, and building with AI — from your first prompt to a system you actually rely on.
"Write me an email to my landlord about the broken heater."
"Summarize this."
"Give me 10 ideas for a birthday gift."
There's nothing wrong with these prompts. They're just not enough — and that's exactly the habit this book is built to change.
"Write me an email to my landlord about the broken heater."
A polite, generic paragraph. Sendable — but disconnected from your actual situation. It says nothing about how long it's been broken, what you already tried, or what tone actually fits.
"It's been broken 8 days. I already reported it once by phone — nothing happened. The lease says repairs should happen within 5 business days. I want it firm, not aggressive — I still live here."
Same task, four extra sentences of real context. The email that comes back cites the actual timeline and the lease clause, in a tone that fits the real relationship — not a generic one.
Not a formula to recite before every prompt. A diagnostic — when AI disappoints you, one of these six is usually missing.
Each part builds on the last — from changing how you think about AI, to running full workflows you never have to rebuild from scratch.
"I've read a dozen 'AI prompting' guides. This is the first one that made me change how I actually work instead of just giving me more prompts to copy."
"The workflow chapters alone paid for the book. I turned a report I used to dread every month into something that now takes me twenty minutes."
"Not hype, not fluff — just a clear system. I went from feeling like I was 'bad at ChatGPT' to actually knowing what I was doing wrong."
You don't need more AI.
You need to use it better.