What is an AI skill (and why you should care)

**Join our AI Mastery program: https://www.inventium.ai/ai-mastery **  You’ve typed the same instructions into AI for the third week running, tweaked the wording slightly, and got a slightly different result again. It’s tiring, and it makes the output hard to trust.  Meanwhile, the tools you may …

How to make your frequent flyer points go further in 2027

You've spent years collecting frequent flyer points. Then you finally go to book a flight, and somehow the seats you want are never available. Or the points required seem ridiculous. Or you give up and pay cash anyway.  As it turns out, collecting points is only half the game. Knowing which airlin…

The prompt that shows what your AI actually knows about you (and it’s less than you might think)

Your AI greets you like an old friend, then hands back something painfully average. Sometimes it even refers to a job you left two years ago.  What your AI knows about you and what it simply assumes are two very different things, and the gap between them shapes every answer you get.  In this How …

How to master difficult conversations at work, with Tim Duggan

Around 80% of us will avoid conflict if given the chance, and Tim Duggan was firmly in that camp.  In this episode, I sit down with Tim, author of Clear In Tension: How to Get Better at Conflict, to explore how we can all handle conflict with more skill and less dread. Tim spent 15 years running t…

Still arguing with AI over a bad first draft? Try these 4 tips

Do you still have a prompt formula saved somewhere, maybe an acronym from an Instagram reel that promised better answers from AI? You paste it in, swap a few words, hit send, and what comes back still misses the mark.  Years of typing a few keywords into a search box have shaped how we talk to AI,…

REPLAY: Feel like you’re always behind? Chris Guillebeau has a fix for your time anxiety (Part 1)

**REPLAY** Do you ever get the sense that no matter how much you do, you’re still running out of time? Like there’s something you should be doing, but you can’t quite figure out what it is?  In this episode of How I Work, we sit down with New York Times bestselling author Chris Guillebeau to talk…

Your prompts are stuck in 2025. Here are 5 fixes

Some prompts have been with you for a year or more. They open with a grand persona for the AI, add a few rules in capital letters, and finish with a request to think it all through. They worked well once, and lately the results feel slightly off.  The AI models have changed, and a few of the habit…

REPLAY: Why you feel busy all the time (even when you’re not), with Laura Vanderkam

**REPLAY** What would you do with four extra hours a day? Probably say you don't have them. But according to Laura Vanderkam, one of the world's leading thinkers on time, they're already there. You're just not seeing them.  Laura has tracked her own time for 11 years. She's run large-scale time-t…

Your custom GPTs and Gems are going away. Here's how to save them.

Who keeps moving my buttons? You know the one. You finally learn where everything lives, and overnight the menu has been rearranged, the feature has a new name, and the thing you spent months perfecting is on a list of things being retired.  In this How I AI episode, Neo and I make sense of the la…

The Work Edit: The AI skill that saves me 200 minutes a week. Here's how to build yours.

Twenty minutes doesn't sound like much. Multiply it by ten sales calls a week and it adds up to more than three hours spent on a task that someone, or something, else could be doing.  Now think about how many tasks like that are hiding in your own week, repeated so often that you no longer notice …