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Learn a hard topic from the foundations
Use your own sources to build a map and choose what to learn next.
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A better place to start a conversation.
Ready-to-use instructions for your AI chat. Choose a task, add your context, and try it for yourself.
How this works
A prompt is simply an instruction.
Tell an AI what you want, give it context, and explain what a useful answer looks like. These prompts give you a starting point.
- 1Choose the result you want.
- 2Copy the prompt and fill in the brackets.
- 3Paste it into a chat and check the answer.
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Decide what a video means for your work
Compare a video with your actual context before choosing an action.
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Learn and understand
Learn a hard topic from the foundations
Use your own sources to build a map and choose what to learn next.
Get the promptLearn and understand
Decide what a video means for your work
Compare a video with your actual context before choosing an action.
Get the promptPlan and decide · Original collection
Compare two AI views of a decision
Use disagreement between two answers to examine the reasoning.
Get the promptHave a conversation · Original collection
Understand the strongest opposing view
Examine the other person’s best argument before a difficult conversation.
Get the promptPlan and decide · Original collection
Imagine how a plan could fail
Look for failure paths while you can still change the plan.
Get the promptMake something · Original collection
Find what your draft is missing
Get another look at a plan, offer or message you think is finished.
Get the promptHave a conversation · Original collection
Reread a message before sending it
Consider how a heated message may land and revise it toward your actual goal.
Get the promptReview a document · Original collection
Find clauses and deadlines to review
Ask for a plain-language reading of costs, deadlines and unusual terms.
Get the promptMake something · Original collection
Let AI ask before it starts
Give your AI the missing context before it begins the work.
Get the promptPlan and decide · Original collection
Challenge an idea everyone agrees with
Ask for the strongest case against a belief before committing to it.
Get the promptMake something · Original collection
Get an editable first draft
Start with something you can improve instead of a blank page.
Get the promptLearn and understand · Original collection
Find the question you did not ask
Look for a useful missing angle at the end of a conversation.
Get the promptFull notes & source materialThe complete original text, examples and reference details.
The complete original collection notes are preserved here, including release details and future plans. Newsletter enrollment and video availability follow the current pages on this site.
These are bigger than one-line tricks. Each entry combines a prompt with the context, guardrails, and workflow that make it useful — plus a video showing how I use it. Start with the system that matches your situation. Copy it, replace anything in [brackets] with your real context, and keep the safety boundaries intact.
Subscribe on YouTube · Long-form guides
Every finished entry earns its number.
Learning
Getting more out of every conversation than you asked for.
- №001 The Semantic Tree Learning Navigator: Build the trunk before the leaves, then let AI guide you through the map without losing your place. Video coming to @espoai
- №002 The YouTube Action Plan: Stop asking for five generic bullets. Compare the video with your real context and decide what deserves action. Video coming to @espoai
The order is set. The work still has to earn the page.
These are the next systems selected for development. Their numbers are reserved, but the prompts stay private until each one is tested, filmed, and finished.
- №003 Make AI Choose the Right Mental Model Reserved · not published
- №004 Build a Context Pack Reserved · not published
- №005 An AI Workspace That Improves After Every Project Reserved · not published
- №006 Train AI on Your Taste Reserved · not published
- №007 Teach AI a Job by Doing It Once Reserved · not published
- №008 Job-Interview Your AI Reserved · not published
- №009 The Anti-Yes-Man Setup Reserved · not published
- №010 Build a Disposable App to Think Better Reserved · not published
The original ten, preserved for reference.
These pages and their history still work. They now live in the Legacy Vault so the rebuilt series can begin cleanly at №001 without deleting what came before.
- Legacy №001 The Fusion Method: Two AIs argue your decision, round after round, until only the strongest case survives.
- Legacy №002 Steelman My Enemy: Before the hard conversation, make AI argue the other side at full strength.
- Legacy №003 The Pre-Mortem: Read the obituary before the funeral — make AI write the story of how your plan failed.
- Legacy №004 The Cold Read: The shortest prompt in the vault. Two words, and they find the thing you can’t see.
- Legacy №005 The Anti-Regret Read: The heated message your thumb is hovering over — read it as the person receiving it first.
- Legacy №006 The Lease X-Ray: Don’t sign anything until AI has read it like a lawyer who works for you.
- Legacy №007 The Interview Trick: Stop giving AI the job before it knows anything about you — make it interview you first.
- Legacy №008 The Tenth Man: If nine agree, the tenth must argue the other side. Nobody wants that job — AI will take it.
- Legacy №009 The Ugly First Draft: Stop starting. Version zero exists so version one can.
- Legacy №010 The One Question: The closer that opens doors — it’s been sitting on the answer the whole time.
The vault is the toolbox. The guides are the shop class.
When you want the full picture behind the methods, the long-form write-ups live in Resources — start with the prompt engineering guide or the beginner’s guide to AI prompting.
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