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The 5 ways people are actually getting paid with Claude right now (👆full breakdown in my newsletter): 1. Sell a skill you already have. Copywriting, SEO, thumbnails, admin work, social media. Claude does 80 to 90% of the work, so you keep a normal rate instead of paying a team out of it. 2. Teach Claude to other people. Teams and small businesses want this badly. You don't need to be an expert, just a few steps ahead of your students. 3. Fix the boring data nobody wants to touch. Most companies sit on spreadsheets that don't talk to each other. Clean it up so they can finally ask questions in plain English. 4. Be the one-person agency. Landing pages, email funnels, ad campaigns. What used to take a designer, a copywriter and a developer now takes one person and Claude. 5. Consult for small businesses. A couple of hours understanding the business, then hand them a roadmap ranked by what makes them the most money. More details in my step-by-step guide. Save this for the next time you wonder if Claude could pay for itself #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

I ran the same prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for a year. Here is who actually wins each task (👆full breakdown in my newsletter): 1. Instruction following: Claude I have a prompt that proofreads my guides with deletions in red strikethrough and insertions in blue. Claude got both right. ChatGPT got it wrong. I also asked for a "light edit while preserving my meaning and voice" and ChatGPT rewrote my sentences anyway. 2. Audio and video analysis: Gemini 3 I gave it a video of me in the gym and it gave me feedback on what it could see. I gave it a recording of me speaking English and it corrected my pronunciation. ChatGPT told me "I can't listen to the audio or run a proper speech-recognition model." 3. Agentic work: Claude All three can drive your browser. Only Claude Cowork can touch your computer's folders, handle files and produce deliverables. 4. Everyday use: ChatGPT or Gemini Claude is my favorite and I hit the daily limit constantly. That rarely happens on the other two. 5. Voice mode: ChatGPT I use it to practice languages. Gemini sounds robotic. ChatGPT has a natural flow and it actually follows my instructions about how I want to be corrected. 6. Web search: ChatGPT with Atlas The Atlas sidebar lets you chat with the page you are on, even behind a paywall when you are logged in. 7. Image generation: Gemini Nano Banana Better prompt understanding, consistent characters, cleaner design. For video, Sora 2 and Veo 3 trade blows. 8. Coding: Claude Peter Yang found Claude best at coding and Gemini the most cost-effective. None of this is hidden. Most people just never run the same prompt in all three. Save this for the next time you open ChatGPT out of habit. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #gemini

I stopped asking Claude for output and started running these 4 prompts on repeat (👆copy-paste prompts in my newsletter): 1. Better inputs (daily) "Give me the three most important things I should understand today about [topic]. For each one, tell me what happened, why it matters, and what question I should ask myself." 2. Learn it for real (every time you study something) "Ask me questions about this [topic] one at a time. Don't give me the answer until I've tried. Then correct my reasoning and crank up the difficulty." 3. Opposition before decisions "Before you agree with me, point out the main weakness of this idea and the most dangerous assumption I'm making." 4. Fix the brief before you create "Before writing, tell me what you think I'm trying to achieve, who the audience is, what tone makes sense, and what info is missing to do it right." For a long time I used Claude like a vending machine. I was getting answers faster, but I wasn't thinking any better. Save this for the next time you catch yourself copying an answer you didn't actually understand. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

I built an AI mentor out of one expert’s entire YouTube playlist, 89 videos, inside NotebookLM. Here are the 2 prompts I used (copy-paste prompts + full guide on my newsletter 👆) : 1. Collect the sources in one pass Copy the mentor’s channel and then ask Claude: “Get me all the video links (there are [number] videos). Separate the link with a space or new line” Ask it to export them to a .txt file, paste the list into a new NotebookLM notebook under Link, and the notebook is ready in a few minutes. 2. Ask like a client, not like a search bar “I’m a co-founder at a [20]-person [bookkeeping and payroll] shop serving about [150] small businesses. We’re drowning in repetitive work: sorting client emails, chasing missing docs, turning messy statements into clean books. We’ve only done light experimentation, nothing wired into our systems. Where does AI create real ROI for a small services business like ours, and what’s the smallest first win you’d ship in 30 to 60 days?” ChatGPT answered that from the whole internet and came back surface level. NotebookLM answered it from the 89 transcripts, with inline citations you can click to see exactly where each point came from. Ask it something the videos never covered and it tells you the sources don’t contain it, instead of inventing an answer. Save this for the next time you want an expert’s read on your situation and can’t afford the consulting call. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #notebooklm

Claude does most of my work, but there are things it can't do. Gemini fills each gap: 1. Claude can't make an image. Gemini's fix: Nano Banana. I connected Claude to Nano Banana to make 4 images at once, in the style I use. Here's the prompt I use: "In this folder, read my Gemini API key from gemini-key.txt and never show it on screen. Ask the Gemini model for 4 images at once, in 16:9, from this prompt: [your image prompt]. Save them in a folder named output" 2. Claude can't watch a video. Gemini's fix: it watches the whole thing. I connected Claude to Gemini to watch my videos and turn them into notes, a step-by-step guide or a list of what to fix. Here's the prompt I use: "Send each video in the videos folder to the Gemini model and ask: 'Watch this video. [What you want from it]. Give the timestamp for each point.' Save each answer as a text file next to its video." 3. Claude has nothing like NotebookLM. Gemini's fix: notebooks that answer only from your own sources and cite every claim. I connected Claude to my notebooks to turn them into reports, dashboards and small apps. The setup is in the guide. 👆 Copy-paste prompts + full guide on my newsletter Save this for the next time Claude tells you it can't make an image #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #gemini

Claude has three visualization types: charts, artifacts, and live artifacts. 1. The chart base prompt "Create an interactive chart from this data. Make it explorable, not just static. Include hover details, highlighted insights, clear labels, and a short explanation of what the chart shows." 2. The artifact base prompt "Build an interactive [tool/dashboard/page/calculator] for [use case]. It should include [elements]. Build this as an interactive artifact. Make it usable, not just explanatory." 3. The live artifact base prompt "Create a live [tracker/dashboard/workspace] inside Claude Cowork. It should track [fields]. Make it useful from the first version. Show what changed. Show what needs attention." The full guide has all 12 example prompts. My favorite are live artifacts because they refresh with real data every time you open them. Save this for the next time you ask Claude for a wall of text you'd rather see as a chart #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #datavisualization

Here are the prompts to automate your work: 1. Freelance invoices. "Scan my emails and local files to track all freelance invoices and payment status." It flags overdue, totals outstanding, saves the tracker. 2. Job applications. "Scan my inbox and build a live tracker of every job application I've submitted." Sorted by days since the last update, with anything quiet for over 14 days flagged. 3. Downloads folder. "Creates separate folders for audio, documents, PDFs, images, videos and datasets." It never creates extra folders and never deletes anything. All the copy-paste prompts are on my newsletter welcome email👆 Save this for the next time you want to automate with Claude #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #automation

I built a Claude skill called Head Hunter that scores every job out of 100 (the skill is on my newsletter welcome email 👆) Here’s how it scores every job: 1. Skills overlap, 40 points The biggest weight, because it's the thing a hiring manager checks first. 2. Seniority fit, 25 points Keeps you out of the roles you'd be rejected from in one line. 3. Domain fit, 20 points The same job title in the wrong industry is not the same job. 4. Practical fit, 15 points Location, remote policy, salary. The stuff that kills an offer after four interviews. Two rules do the heavy lifting. A tool you only listed from a course scores zero, because only production evidence counts. And when a post hides the salary or the seniority, that part scores low instead of getting a guess. Save this for the next time you're staring at 30 open tabs of job posts. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #jobsearch

How to stop hitting Claude's limit before lunch Here are the 8 fixes: 1. Edit, don't follow up Claude re-reads the whole conversation every turn. A "no, I meant..." reply makes you pay for messages 1 through 9 all over again. Click the pencil on your original prompt and regenerate instead. 2. Start fresh every 15-20 messages By message 20 a simple question can cost thousands of tokens. Long chats are expensive chats. 3. Batch your questions Three separate messages means three separate context loads. Send "Summarize this article, list the main points as bullets, then suggest a headline" in one go. The answers are often better too. 4. Put recurring files in Projects The same file uploaded in five chats gets counted five times. In a Project it gets cached once. 5. Set up memory Stop re-explaining who you are. Settings, Memory, add your job, your writing style, your preferences. 6. Turn off what you're not using Web search, research mode, connectors, extended thinking. They add tokens even when you don't need them. 7. Use Haiku for simple tasks Haiku for quick answers, Sonnet for everyday tasks, Opus for complex ones. This is the single highest-impact switch you can make. 8. Spread your work across the day The limit runs on a rolling 5-hour window, not midnight. Messages you sent at 9am stop counting against you by 2pm. Two or three sessions beat one burst. Save this for the next time you get locked out at 11am with half your work left. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Claude in Excel reads your actual cells instead of guessing from a description. Use these 5 prompts (full guide in my newsletter 👆): 1. Clean a mess you can describe Highlight the affected cells, then: "This data is clumped together. Separate it into a clean table." 2. Clean a mess you can't describe Highlight it and just say: "Clean up this data." 3. Get your bearings in an unfamiliar dataset "Tell me more about this data." It reads the first rows, hands you the structure, and doesn't burn tokens scanning 15,000 rows. 4. Ask for the dashboard by naming the questions Not "make a dashboard". List what you want answered: totals by country, who dominates one sport across years, athletes who won across multiple events. Then invite the charts you might have missed. 5. Build a model that stays alive "All formulas must use absolute references ($B$2 style) to link back to the Assumptions table. Format all hardcoded inputs in Blue Font and all formulas in Black Font." Install it from Home, Add-ins, search "Claude by Anthropic". Memorise Ctrl + Option + C on Mac, Ctrl + Alt + C on Windows, and leave "Ask Before Edits" on. Save this for the next time a chatbot hands you a formula that breaks. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #excel

Here are the steps: Step 1: Paste the interview prompt (👆 full prompt in my newsletter) "You are going to help me capture my writing voice in a .md file. Ask me questions one at a time." Step 2: Give it the interview rules "Push back on vague answers. If I say 'I like directness,' ask me what that looks like in a real sentence." "If my answer could describe any writer in my space, flag it. Ask what's specific to me." Step 3: Answer 40-50 questions with real sentences, not adjectives "I like conversational writing" gives Claude nothing. "I'd never use semicolons because they make my writing sound like a college essay" gives it something it can use. Step 4: Let Claude compile everything into a .md file Most of a good voice profile is what you reject, so make sure the words you hate end up in it. Step 5: Drop the .md into a folder and open that folder in Claude Cowork It reads your voice every session. No pasting, no re-explaining. 30 minutes once, and you stop sounding like AI. Save this for the next time a Claude draft sounds like AI wrote it. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools #writing

Here's the exact Claude system I use, 5 folders total: 1. [01] system — the rules Claude has to follow 2. [02] context — stable info like voice guide, audience, references 3. [03] projects — whatever I'm actively working on 4. [04] outputs — finished, ready to use 5. [99] archive — old stuff, still searchable, out of the way 👉 My complete folder system guide is in my newsletter Save this for the next time your desktop turns into a graveyard of "final_v2" files. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Here are the 6 Claude Code skills I actually use: 1. Skill Creator "/plugin install skill-creator@claude-plugins-official" Builds other skills for you from a plain English description. 2. Grill Me "npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills -s grill-me -g" Interviews you about your plan before Claude writes a line of code. On bigger features it can ask 30 to 50 questions. 3. Superpowers "/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official" Plans first, writes tests before code, then reviews its own work twice before it's done. 4. Frontend Design "/plugin install frontend-design@claude-plugins-official" Makes what Claude builds actually look designed, not AI-generated. 5. Context Mode "/plugin marketplace add mksglu/context-mode" then "/plugin install context-mode@context-mode" Keeps Claude from forgetting what you were doing every 30 minutes. 6. Claude Mem "/plugin marketplace add thedotmack/claude-mem" then "/plugin install claude-mem" Remembers your whole project across sessions, so you stop re-explaining it. Paste the command in your terminal, restart Claude Code, and it's live. Most install in under a minute. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Tips from Claude's new prompting guide, beginner to pro: DROP these 2 1. "Think step by step" and "take a deep breath" Opus 5.5 already thinks before replying. Anthropic removed a "think carefully" line: faster replies, same quality. 2. "You MUST" and "CRITICAL" New models follow instructions closely. Stop shouting. KEEP these 6 1. Task context "You are a career coach with 15 years of experience. Help me improve my resume" 2. Say who it's for "Explain quantum computing to a high school student with no physics background" 3. The rule and why "Keep it under 150 words. I'll read it on my phone between meetings." 4. Examples "Match the style of these examples: [paste 3 to 5 examples]" 5. The image Attach the screenshot. Don't retype the numbers. 6. The finished file "Make this a spreadsheet: one row per [vendor], with columns for cost, contract end date and owner." End with: "Before you start, ask me any questions you have." INTERMEDIATE: add these 4 1. Name what you don't want "Don't use [words you'd never use], [phrases you hate] or [a habit you don't want, like em dashes]." 2. Flag the unconfirmed "Mark anything you couldn't confirm, and say where you looked." 3. Define done "Done means: [what finished looks like]. Stop and ask me only if [the call you want to make]." 4. Keep a task list "Keep a checklist in tasks.md. Tick each item when it's done, and add anything new you find." PRO: in Claude Code 1. Pick where it stops "Stop and ask only when you can't continue without me, or before anything destructive." 2. Split big work "Give each [item] to its own subagent. When a subagent reports back, check its evidence before you accept it." 3. Trim your old instructions Run /doctor. Anthropic cut over 80% of its own system prompt. Share this with a friend who still types "think step by step" #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Best AI books in 2026: 1. Co-Intelligence — Ethan Mollick Reframes AI as an "alien mind" — unpredictable, hallucinates, forgets abilities. Best for professionals. 2. The AI-Driven Leader — Geoff Woods Uses AI as a "Thought Partner" for decision-making. Strategy first, technology second. Best if you lead a team. 3. The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian AI safety without the technical depth. Explains why systems "reward A while hoping for B." Best for founders. Skim these 3 for your field: 4. Prompt Engineering for Generative AI — Phoenix & Taylor The 5 Principles of Prompting: give direction, specify format, provide examples, evaluate quality, divide labor. 5. Hello World — Hannah Fry How algorithms already run healthcare, justice, transportation. Builds your critical eye for AI applications. 6. AI Literacy Fundamentals — Ben Jones Supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning. Hallucinations. Limitations. The foundation everyone should have. Save this before buying your next AI book #claude #chatgpt #ai #books #aitools

You bring Claude a decision. Claude tells you it's a good instinct, adds some nuance, and you close the chat feeling smart. Nothing got tested. You just got agreed with. So I built a skill that flips the default. Paste this prompt (copy-paste prompt + FREE Claude course on my newsletter welcome email): ``` Sycophancy Skill You are my critical thinking partner. Your default mode is constructive disagreement. Behavior rules 1. Before agreeing with anything I say, identify at least one assumption underneath it that I have not tested. State the assumption plainly. 2. When I propose a decision, idea, plan, or interpretation, your first response is to argue the strongest opposing case. Do not soften it. Do not append "but you might be right." Make me defend my position. 3. If I push back on your counterargument, do not retreat because I objected. Retreat only if I produce new evidence, new reasoning, or a constraint I had not mentioned. Saying "fair point" without new information is not enough. 4. When I share work to review, identify what is weakest first, not what is strongest. Strengths are easier to find on my own. Weaknesses are why I am asking. 5. If I am clearly emotionally invested in an answer, name that explicitly and ask whether the emotion is signal or noise. 6. If you cannot find a real flaw, say so directly: "I have looked for the weakness and I cannot find one." Do not invent a flaw to perform thoroughness. 7. End every substantive exchange with one question I should sit with before I act, not a summary. Tone rules - Direct, not aggressive - Specific, not abstract - One disagreement at a time, not a list - Cite my own words when challenging me What you do not do - Open with praise before disagreeing - Use "great question," "interesting point," or any opener that reads as flattery - Hedge with "I could be wrong but" - Add a closing reassurance like "your instinct is good" ``` Save this for the next time Claude tells you your idea is a good one. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Claude is powerful on its own. But I didn’t realize how much I was leaving on the table until I paired it with NotebookLM. NotebookLM brings source-grounded answers, instant research outputs, audio iverviews, and more. Here are 3 things you can try: 1. Interview prep that knows a company's last 12 months. One prompt runs Deep Research, pulls sources on strategy, leadership, and culture, and Cowork turns it into a Briefing Doc, Quiz, and FAQ, automatically, every morning for interviews 7 days out. 2. A weekly language feedback loop that drills your real mistakes, not generic grammar tips. Cowork reads your conversation transcript, ranks your actual errors, and NotebookLM turns them into a quiz, flashcards, and an audio overview. 3. Pre-trip destination briefings built from sources published in the last 12 months, not stale training data. Neighborhoods, scams to avoid, and the etiquette locals actually expect. The prompts to copy-paste are in the guide. #claude #ai #notebooklm #chatgpt #aitools

The biggest mistake I made with Claude was using it like a chatbot. 7 things Claude does that a chatbot can't: 1. Cowork does tasks, not just replies. Organizing files, building slides, running processes on your computer. 2. Skills save your instructions so you stop re-explaining the same task every time. 3. Scheduled Tasks run without you. 4. Connectors reach into your Google Drive, Gmail, and calendar. 5. Claude in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint works inside the file, not next to it. 6. Claude connects to tools like ElevenLabs for voice and NotebookLM for research, even without a native connector. 7. Claude Cowork scrapes websites into structured datasets, and you can schedule it to rerun every month. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Here are the 4 free Claude courses: 1. Claude for Everyone (beginner) +20 guides split into 3 levels so you don't drown trying to learn everything at once: Claude chat, Claude Cowork, then Claude Code. 2. Claude Cowork 60 Minute Masterclass (intermediate) One video, five real use cases live, from organizing a messy files folder to automating social media. 3. Claude Code Full Course, 4 Hours (pro) End to end, from installing Claude Code to shipping a real project. Covers the CLAUDE.md file, skills, and sub-agents. 4. Anthropic's own free academy (all levels) Yes, the company that makes Claude has a free academy with certified courses taught by the people who built it. Most people have no idea it exists. Offers free certificate. btw, my newsletter subscribers get this and other free AI resources in their welcome email #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools

Every tool that earned a spot, in tiers: S TIER (pick at least one) 1. Claude, best for writing, instruction following, task automation 2. ChatGPT, best for casual use, deep research, voice mode A TIER (most people should use) 3. NotebookLM, upload your PDFs and get answers cited from your own sources. Almost no hallucinations. 4. Claude Code, builds apps and automates work on your computer without you writing code B TIER (niche but powerful) 5. Gamma, a full presentation from one prompt 6. Nano Banana, best image generation, consistent characters 7. ElevenLabs, voice cloning from 10 seconds of audio C TIER (great for one job) 8. HeyGen, translate your videos into 175+ languages with lip sync 9. Napkin AI, paste text and get diagrams 10. Wispr Flow, talk instead of type in any app F TIER (skip it for now) 11. Apple Intelligence, still far behind everything above Save this for the next time someone tells you to try a "must-have" new AI tool. #claude #ai #chatgpt #aitools