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 …

AI is a terrible brainstormer (until you do this)

You ask AI for ideas and get a tidy list of ten, each one praised as being brilliant. The tempting move is to grab the first one that looks decent and get on with your day. The catch is that you've handed over the thinking, and what comes back tends to look a lot like what everyone else is getting.…

The 7 types of rest you need, and how to find the one you're missing, with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

One surgeon takes his boat out onto a lake, screams until he can't scream anymore, and then cries. It is how he recovers from a job where patients die and he can't fall apart in front of his team.  That is what emotional rest can look like for one person, and it is only one of seven types of rest …

Your AI gets dumber at 60%. Here's the free fix.

Some of us have a favourite chat thread we keep coming back to, adding a bit more context every time we open it. It feels efficient, like you're building up a work buddy who really knows your stuff. But every extra message quietly chips away at how reliable that thread becomes, and by the time you …

The Work Edit: 3 evening strategies to actually help you switch off

You've read the books. You've locked the phone in a drawer. You've set a hard cut-off at 8 PM. And none of it has lasted more than two weeks.  That's exactly where Shaun found himself. By day he's a senior corporate strategy leader at Bupa, and by night he's the volunteer operations manager for a …

The 4 recurring tasks you should hand off to AI permanently

Most people treat AI like a vending machine: you show up, you ask, you wait. But what if there's another way to use it, one where the work gets done before you've even thought to ask for it.  In this How I AI episode, Neo and I explore scheduled prompts: what they are, why they're worth setting up…