Prompts, instructions, skills, and guides, mined from what we actually run in production, sanitized and made generic. Every item does two jobs at once: what it does, and what it protects or develops.
Does: Ten minutes at the end of the day: write the day’s hardest moment in the third person, by name, as if it happened to someone you’re advising.
Builds: The distance that makes your own judgment usable on your own life.
Does: The standing rule: draft your answer, your call, or your sketch before the tool opens. The machine then reviews your thinking instead of replacing it.
Builds: The muscle the shortcut would have spent.
Does: A running note of every AI mistake you catch, reviewed weekly. Watch for the kinds it repeats.
Builds: Calibrated trust: knowing when to lean on the machine and when to check it.
Does: One block a week of real work with everything closed. A deliberate rep, like taking the stairs when the elevator works fine.
Builds: Proof you can still do it, and the standard the machine has to beat.
Does: A short instruction block that tells the model to challenge you and ask before assuming, instead of agreeing by default.
Protects: Your ability to trust the answer, not just receive one.
Download .md ↓ Email it to me + a heads-up when it goes stale →Does: The five-question worksheet that becomes memory entries, a custom-instructions block, and a CLAUDE.md. Go do it →
Protects: Every conversation after the first one.
Download .md ↓ Email it to me + a heads-up when it goes stale →Does: Ten specific facts worth putting in ChatGPT or Claude memory, beyond the obvious ones like your job title.
Protects: You from the empty-memory-settings trap: turned on, never actually filled in.
Download .md ↓ Email it to me + a heads-up when it goes stale →Does: One line that asks the model to challenge you before agreeing, and ask before assuming.
Protects: The difference between a thought partner and a mirror.
Does: Keeps AI out of your actual writing voice while still letting it help you think.
Protects: The words that are supposed to sound like you.
Does: A short worksheet for naming what a given tool should never see or touch, before you connect it.
Protects: The stretches of the work that are yours to keep.
Does: A quick pass to check what’s connected, what it can see, and whether it still should be.
Protects: You from forgotten standing access nobody remembers granting.
Does: A structured file format for giving a coding agent real, persistent context about you and your standards.
Protects: Consistency across every session with the agent, not just the first one.
Download .md ↓ Email it to me + a heads-up when it goes stale →Does: A short guide to turning one judgment call you make often into an explicit, reusable instruction set.
Protects: Judgment you’ve already earned, in a form that outlasts any one conversation.
Does: Turns a raw meeting transcript into decisions, context, and open threads instead of a wall of text.
Protects: What actually got decided, before it fades from memory.
Does: A pattern for building a small daily agent that surfaces what matters instead of everything.
Protects: Your attention, at the one moment of the day it’s worth the most.
Does: A running log of what an agent got wrong and what you changed, so it stops recurring.
Protects: The agent’s improvement, instead of relearning the same lesson every time.
Does: A quarterly pass to check whether your setup still matches how the tools actually work now.
Protects: Everything above, from going quietly stale. We run this check monthly for members.
Download .md ↓ Email it to me + a heads-up when it goes stale →Does: Business Model Generation, reworked for a company where AI is a core resource - which activities it carries, where the human judgment lives, what the moat becomes.
Builds: A model you designed on purpose, instead of one the tools quietly shaped for you.
Does: A Value Proposition Design prompt that starts from one real customer’s actual job-to-be-done, not a persona the AI invented.
Builds: Offers grounded in a real person, before AI averages them into everyone’s.
Does: A fast, Lean-Startup-style pass on what to build with AI, what to buy, and what to leave alone this quarter.
Builds: Focus, in a moment when AI makes it cheap to build everything and wise to build little.
Does: A team-level Bearing File: purpose, who decides what, how you talk to each other, in one file every agent and teammate can draw on.
Builds: One aligned context, instead of ten private setups that quietly disagree.
Does: Turns a recorded meeting (Granola, a transcript) into decisions, owners, and open threads the whole team can trust.
Builds: Shared memory of what was actually decided, before it fades into ten versions.
Does: A short, plain worksheet a family fills in together: where AI helps, where it waits, and what everyone still does by hand on purpose.
Builds: Kids who reach for the machine on purpose, not by reflex.
Does: One classroom norm, drawn from the learning research: students attempt it themselves before any AI touches it.
Builds: The struggle that actually builds understanding, kept intact in an AI-saturated room.
Does: A way to use AI all through school that leaves you sharper by graduation instead of hollow - what to hand it, what to guard.
Builds: The mind you’re there to build, with the most powerful shortcut in history sitting right on the desk.
Nothing on this shelf yet at that level - more lands with every briefing. Try another combination.