Volume 55: The Story You Should Not Have to Tell Twice
AI assistants give confident wrong answers because training rewards guessing, leading questions push toward yes, and the tone sounds the same either way. Before you use a single answer, find the line in the source it rests on and check that every hedge survived.
What Happens After AI Writes the Note?
AI scribes can write the note and give clinicians some time back. After my son’s birth, every team we saw used the same record system, and we still retold my wife’s history. The next measure of success is the care scribes improve, so no patient tells the same story twice.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 55: The Meeting Renegotiator
Use this AI prompt to review next week's meetings against your priorities, decide which to keep or adjust, and draft warm messages that politely decline or offer a written update, a delegate, or partial attendance. It never suggests declining your manager or a client.
Episode 4: Put AI to Work: Build Workflows, Solve Problems
Useful AI workflows start with a real task. Santosh and Brandon discuss a writing process, a portable second brain, and ways to put workplace learning into practice.
Volume 54: The Instructions That Travel With You Between Tools
To find out which AI tool is better for a job you repeat, test both on a small set of cases built from mistakes you have already caught, with the right answer written first. Run each case more than once, and for work others act on, keep the tool that passes every time.
Why I Built a Second Brain
I built a second brain so the instructions, decisions, and lessons I teach AI could follow me across projects and tools. It grew one experiment at a time, from chat settings to Projects to local folders, and I shared a starter on GitHub.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 54: The Open Enrollment Optimizer
Compare health plans at open enrollment by pricing each one for a quiet year, the year you expect, and a bad year. This AI prompt shows the math, finds the break-even point, and leaves the choice to you.
Episode 3: We Let AI Do More. Yet We Still Check.
AI can take on more work when the goal is clear and the result can be checked. Show graphics and a live website test illustrate how experience guides what to delegate and what to review.
