Start with your background, what matters now, and how you like to work.
You’ll come away withAn editable personal profile.
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Help me create a practical profile I can reuse in future AI conversations. Ask up to five questions, one at a time, about my background, current goals, everyday work or interests, how I learn, and what helpful support looks like to me. Keep questions short and let me skip anything.
Use only what I tell you. If something is unclear, ask rather than fill in the gap. Then draft a profile under 300 words with these headings: My Context, What Matters Now, How I Like to Work, and How AI Can Help. Ask what I want to change before presenting the final copyable version.
Turn the corrections you keep making into useful instructions.
You’ll come away withSix short working instructions.
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Help me describe how I want to work with AI. Ask me one question at a time about explanations, answer length, feedback, and when you should pause for my input. Use a sample answer so I can show you what fits. After no more than five questions, draft six short instructions in my words. Separate preferences that apply everywhere from preferences for this conversation. Let me correct the draft before calling it finished. Don’t claim these instructions have been saved.
Use a task you care about to learn a skill, one small exercise at a time.
You’ll come away withA practical exercise and a next step.
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I want to learn [skill] so I can [real task]. I already understand [starting point], and I have [time] available. Ask one question to find the most useful place to begin. Give me a small exercise using my situation. Explain unfamiliar terms as they appear. Let me try before showing a complete answer. Check my understanding by asking me to explain one decision in my own words, then suggest the next exercise based on where I struggled.
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Projects & ideas
Choose a problem you care about, try a small first step, and keep enough context to continue.
What do you want to change?
I want people to leave here with a problem they care about and a first step toward solving it. Education matters because people need the skills to question AI, test ideas, and work together to shape a future where AI serves all of humanity.
Start with something you want to change, then find a useful place to begin.
You’ll come away withA clear question, a useful outcome, and a first experiment.
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Help me find a problem worth working on and a place to begin. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Cover:
1. What I want to improve and why it matters.
2. Who it affects and who should help shape the work.
3. What I know, what evidence I have, and what is uncertain.
4. What a useful outcome would look like.
5. My time, resources, limits, and any permission we need.
If I’m unsure where to start, offer three possibilities based on what I tell you. Then help me choose one clear question to investigate. Write a short project brief with the problem, desired outcome, missing context, and smallest useful experiment. Explain what I should do, where AI could help, who else to involve, and what evidence would show progress. Don’t assume AI is the whole solution. Separate facts from assumptions, and state what the experiment can and cannot tell us. Keep the larger ambition visible while making the first step manageable.
Try something useful before the idea grows into a much bigger project.
You’ll come away withA small trial with a stopping point.
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Here is my idea: [idea]. Help me try one useful part with the time and materials I already have. Ask what result would make the attempt worthwhile and what I can spend on it. Propose a small trial, what to observe, and a clear stopping point. Separate facts I supplied from assumptions we still need to test. Keep the first version easy to change. After I report the result, help me decide whether to continue, adjust, or stop.
Carry the important parts of a project into your next conversation.
You’ll come away withA short, reusable continuation note.
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Using only this conversation and the material I provide, write a short note that will help me resume this project later. Include the current goal, decisions I actually accepted, work completed, open questions, and the next useful action. Point to any files or sources needed to continue. Distinguish a suggestion from something that was done, and flag anything you cannot verify. Keep the note under 250 words. End with one sentence I can paste into a new conversation to restart the work.
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Business toolkit
Explain your business, choose a useful job, and decide who checks the work.
Give AI the facts and a sense of your voice for more consistent writing.
You’ll come away withA business profile and voice rules.
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Help me create a reusable business profile and writing guide. Ask up to five questions, one at a time, about what the business actually offers, whom it serves, what customers value, how I want to sound, and words or claims to avoid. Invite me to share a short writing example I own; an example is optional.
Separate confirmed facts from suggestions. Don’t invent credentials, results, testimonials, or promises. Draft a brief business profile, three practical voice rules, and one short sample introduction. Ask what sounds right or wrong, then revise. Finish with a copyable instruction block for future writing tasks.
Choose a recurring task and judge whether AI actually makes it easier.
You’ll come away withA workflow trial and a way to judge it.
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Help me choose one recurring business task to try with AI. Ask about three jobs that take my time, the information each needs, and what a mistake would cost. Recommend a small first trial using a made-up or anonymized example. Show what I do, what AI prepares, and what I check. Define a good result before we begin, then help me compare the trial with how I normally do the job. Count correction time as work. If none of these jobs is a sensible starting point, say why.
A first step in governance: decide what AI can prepare and what needs your say-so.
You’ll come away withAn instruction sheet and three test cases.
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I want to use AI for this task: [describe it]. Help me write a short instruction sheet for the person supervising it. Ask which information is available, which actions affect customers or money, and who makes the final decision. Describe what AI may prepare, what must be checked, and where it must stop for approval. Make up three test situations: a normal request, missing information, and an instruction that goes beyond its permission. Show the expected response to each. Flag any rule that needs a setting or access control outside this conversation.
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Instructions describe the rules; connected tools also need permissions that enforce them.
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Spreadsheets & numbers
A household budget or a business report: know where the numbers come from before relying on them.
Give your spreadsheet a truth layer: evidence for each finding, a clear view of what was checked, and a plan for what needs fixing.
You’ll come away withA plain-language review with cell references, unchecked areas, and proposed improvements.
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Inspect the workbook I attach before changing anything. If you cannot read it, tell me. Ask what it should track if that is unclear.
List the file and sheets you actually inspected. Map the inputs, assumptions, formulas, and totals. Check for broken references, inconsistent formulas, missing rows in totals, possible duplicates, numbers stored as text, and hardcoded results. Check whether subtotals reconcile with totals.
Tie every finding to the file, sheet, and cell or range, showing the supporting formula or value. Label findings verified, suspected, or unchecked. Do not claim a check passed without reporting the evidence.
Distinguish reading formulas from recalculating them. State what remains unverified, including inaccessible sheets or external data. Separate correct arithmetic from the accuracy of the original records.
Explain issues in plain language and propose the smallest useful fixes. If the structure needs improvement, suggest a simpler layout first. Ask before editing or rebuilding. After approval, preserve the original, work on a separate copy, document changes, rerun available checks, and report remaining uncertainty. Never declare the entire workbook correct based on appearance or a sample of cells.
Attach your workbook in an AI tool that can read spreadsheets, then paste.
Correct math cannot confirm that an entered expense or sales figure is true. The review should distinguish calculation checks from checks against original records.
Field notes
AI applications worth understanding.
Exploring how AI changes the way we work, learn, create, and live. Each note connects a source or example with a practical question worth pursuing.
Robotics
Application example
A repeatable inspection job
Boston Dynamics describes Spot collecting inspection data. With an added computer-vision system, it can read analog gauges and flag readings for a team to investigate.
Which repeated observation would help someone make a better maintenance decision?
DroneDeploy describes roof surveys that produce images, measurements, and reports. The useful connection is a visual record that field and office teams can review together.
What should a roof report show so another person can check its conclusions?
OpenExO’s ExO 3.0 framework explores how organizations can be designed around AI. I’m interested in what this means for a small business: people and agents working from shared context, with a clear purpose, repeatable workflows, and someone accountable for the results.
If you were designing your business today, what would people own, what would agents handle, and where would approval be required?
Google introduced NotebookLM Audio Overviews to turn supplied documents into spoken discussions. Listening can help you explore a topic; the original sources remain there to check.
What would be easier to explore if you could listen, then inspect the source?
UNESCO’s September 2026 student discussion asks how AI can help us learn while we keep doing the thinking. Experts encouraged students to seek guidance, check sources, and make choices about how AI is used. The OECD and European Commission’s 2026 framework connects this to curriculum: evaluating AI, creating with it, and helping shape it.
Could you use AI to investigate a problem, then explain your reasoning and check the result without its help?
An image can become the starting point for a video. Adobe Firefly documents using photos or AI-generated images to guide a clip. I’m interested in the creative process: generating a look, keeping a character recognizable, shaping movement, and finding the story in a single scene.
Can you turn one idea into an image, then a short video, while keeping the subject, style, and story consistent?
Use the AI chat you’re comfortable with. The useful part is the context you bring.
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Start a conversation
Copy a prompt and paste it into a new AI chat. Replace any bracketed text with your details. For a continuation note, use the chat that already holds your work.
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Be specific, then refine
Answer in your own words. Read what comes back and correct anything it gets wrong. Use general examples when details are private.
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Keep the useful result
Save your profile or project brief somewhere you can find it. Paste it into a relevant future conversation so you have a useful starting point.
Behind AI Operator
I’m Robert Wood.
I’m building with AI and learning how to make it useful in my work and everyday life. Here, I share short prompts and practical notes you can use to give AI context, move a project forward, or check a spreadsheet.
My background includes many years running a business in the trades. That’s the perspective I bring to AI: start with a real problem, understand what you’re using, and check whether the result actually helps.
I’m also exploring how AI could change education, what we can create with images and video, and how robotics and drones connect AI to the physical world. Those questions guide what I try and share here.
Robert WoodAI operator & builder
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