Serenity Now! How to Stop Burning Through Your Claude Tokens

It’s a horrible feeling when you are working away with Claude or ChatGPT and then you get a message that you’ve reached your limit. You’re options are to buy more, and that can get expensive. You can blame the platform, like I used to. Hey, who hasn’t yelled at Claude a few times when you … Read more

Stop Prompting AI. Start Getting Prompted by It.

I spend a lot of time watching how people use AI. And I keep seeing the same pattern: Someone needs to write a strategy doc. They fire up ChatGPT or Claude. They type “Write a go-to-market strategy for…” Hit enter. Copy. Paste. Done. They think they’re using AI effectively. They’re not. They’re using AI like … Read more

Polite People Get Worse AI Results. But Not Because They’re Polite.

Image of someone talking rudely to ChatGPT

The viral advice is wrong. Here’s what actually makes AI smarter. I saw a post last week that made me laugh: “Stop saying please to ChatGPT. Be mean. It makes the AI smarter.” Thousands of likes. Hundreds of comments from people ready to start insulting their chatbots, including me. Here’s the thing: there’s a kernel … Read more

How to Use ChatGPT Without Losing Your Edge

Every day, I see the same mistake: smart people letting AI do all their thinking for them. They hand ChatGPT every email, every presentation, every brainstorm. They skip the work. AI creates from scratch, and they click “send.” It feels efficient until the tools hit query limits. Then? Total paralysis. No outline, no starting point, … Read more