Steal My Prompt Vol. 28: The Anti-Sycophancy System
A three-mode prompt system that forces AI to challenge your thinking before agreeing. Use it for strategy sessions, project plans, budget reviews, or any decision where flattery is a liability.
Volume 27: Access Is Not the Advantage
The tool showing up on your dashboard is not the breakthrough. Being ready to use it before it arrives is. This week is about what that preparation actually looks like in practice.
Why Being Ready Matters More Than Having the Right Tool
A new AI feature appeared on my work dashboard on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday the presentation draft was done. That did not happen because I had the right tool. It happened because I had been building the right instincts for months.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 27: The Session Saver
Every AI session eventually hits the context window. The Session Saver captures your role, status, and next step so a new chat picks up exactly where the last one ended.
Volume 26: Bracket Your Bottlenecks
Everyone is chasing the autonomous AI system that does everything at once. The professionals actually getting results are building smaller, narrower, and more deliberately. This week is about that friction.
Why I Needed a System, Not an Agent
I spent weeks trying to get one AI assistant to handle all of Founder's Corner. The output looked fine on the surface and fell apart every time I read it closely. Here is what I built instead.
Steal My Prompt Vol. 26: The Brain Dump to Draft
Writing and thinking at the same time is where most writing breaks down. This four-phase prompt separates your brain dump from your structure and your structure from your draft.
Volume 25: Don't Be Easy to Influence
AI just became a kitchen table issue. The talking points are already forming, and most of them will sound completely reasonable until you ask the second question.
