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Good work to open.Ideas to borrow.
A way into your own.Plus a few things worth watching & reading ↗
A weekend. A small book. A lovely thing to keep.
Six illustrated pages → a gift for someone who was there
Turn what you know into something you can teach.
A photo walk → a rainy-day workshop
Make your case, not just a slide deck.
Scattered notes → six editable decision slides
A little curiosity goes a long way
Try something.
See where it takes you.
Give a few words a place on paper.
Make a small print for a gathering, a gift or your wall.
Try a questionWhy is a half-lit Moon called a quarter Moon?
Think first. Then turn the page.Could you explain it without looking?
Answer a Moon question, compare the explanation, then bring the subject you care about.
Use your numbersThe cheapest quote is not always the best order.
Compare your own prices and constraints. Keep the decision when the quotes change.
Work guides
For the job
in front of you.
Clean up a spreadsheet export
Give it a messy export. Get every row back in order, exceptions flagged, totals scoped.
Write a weekly update from tracker and notes
Get a draft update that preserves the current plan, shows proposals and reflects authorized changes.
Turn research notes into a decision deck
Give it notes, audience and the decision. Get a deck that gives what's unknown its own slide.
The useful part is not always a tutorial
A better idea
of what is possible.
A chat can become a file you work in, a small tool, or a job that carries on. We look at what changes, what is worth trying, and where the promise runs ahead of the result.
Read the longer view →The Work Left the Chat Window: What to Specify When an Agent Touches Files, Tools and Time
Between July and October, the product pitch moved from better answers to ongoing work. The skill that matters now is specifying input access, durable state, approval and delivery.
After the Beautiful First Draft
What matters after generation: choosing a medium, preserving an intentional edit, and judging the whole result.
Let the model read. Let the code count.
Two recorded runs on fictional feedback, a local workflow you can inspect, and reports that lead back to every item.
Good finds
Less hunting.
More worth opening.
Your work deserves more than a résumé.
An editorial one-page portfolio gives selected projects room to tell your story. Open the example, then use the guide to bring your own work and visual references into a page that feels like you.
Kevin Stratvert · hosted by David DeWinterThree messy files. One workbook you can use again.
Sales in one file, customer feedback in another, the missing details somewhere else. This tutorial joins three CSVs into an Excel workbook with regional charts, then brings in a new month.
Jeff SuPlan a trip without explaining your life again.
Jeff Su describes a trip request that brings together his travel preferences, calendar and friends in the destination. Read it for the possibility of a plan that starts with what matters to you.
Use the AI you already have
You bring the thing you want to do.
Start there.
Take it into your own AI →No new account here. The work and the choices stay yours.