The Freelancer Who Made $12,000 in a Month Without Working Weekends A copywriter I know — let’s call her Maya — used to spend every Sunday doing research and prep work for the week ahead. Client brief
The Moment I Realized I Was Using the Wrong Tool A few weeks ago, a content manager I know told me she’d been using Notion AI to write blog posts and ChatGPT to take meeting notes — the exact opposite
The Prompt That Changed How I Use AI Tools A colleague of mine spent three weeks complaining that ChatGPT was “useless for legal summaries.” She kept getting vague, wishy-washy outputs that she couldn
The Editor That Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About Coding A designer friend of mine — who also writes Python scripts for automating her workflow — sent me a voice note about three mont
The Prompt Engineering Rabbit Hole Nobody Warns You About A colleague of mine spent an entire Saturday refining a single prompt. We’re talking six hours, dozens of iterations, a notebook full of “fram
Nobody Told Me Where to Start — So I’m Telling You A colleague of mine spent three weeks “researching AI tools” before she actually used one. She’d read comparison posts, watched YouTube deep-dives, b
The Research Rabbit Hole That Started This Comparison A journalist friend of mine pinged me a few weeks ago with a complaint I’ve heard more than once: “I used ChatGPT to research a story about gene-e
The Content Hamster Wheel Is Real — Here’s How People Are Getting Off It A creator friend of mine — she runs a mid-size YouTube channel about personal finance — told me something that stuck with me a
My Friend Asked If He Should Pay More for GPT-5. Here’s What I Told Him. A few weeks ago, a product manager friend sent me a voice note while I was making coffee. “AJ, OpenAI just dropped GPT-5 and I
From Zero to Working App — Faster Than You Think A colleague pinged me last month with a message that I’ve probably received a dozen variations of: “I want to build something with Claude’s API but I d
