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The pocket
AI handbook

A short, practical guide to getting real work out of AI. Ten minutes to read. Nothing in it needs a paid account, a technical background, or more than a minute to try.

  • 12 pages
  • 10-minute read
  • Prompts you can type straight from the page
  • By Chandan Goopta, Growcept

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The few moves that change what you get back

Most people who use AI every day still get back something they have to rewrite. That is almost never the tool. It is what the tool was given to work with.

Page 4, the TEACH framework
Page 04 · The TEACH framework
Page 6, make it interview you
Page 06 · Make it interview you
Page 9, what you may safely paste
Page 09 · What you may safely paste
  1. 03

    Why answers come back general

    AI knows nothing about your situation unless you tell it. The one-question test to run before you press enter.

  2. 04

    The TEACH framework

    Five letters, five things to tell it: Task, Expectation, Audience, Context, How.

  3. 05

    The same task, written two ways

    One task, two prompts, the same minute. What the second one added.

  4. 06

    Make it interview you

    One sentence to add to any request so the tool asks for whatever you left out.

  5. 07

    Which tool for which job

    There is no best AI tool. There are about five, and the skill is knowing which to open.

  6. 08

    Two prompts worth keeping

    Meeting notes into actions. Write like you, not like a machine.

  7. 09

    What you may safely paste

    The five-second check: if this leaked, who gets hurt?

  8. 10

    What to check before you send

    It is confident, not correct. A fact-check prompt to add to any research answer.

If you read only two pages, read 06 and 09. The first makes the tool useful. The second keeps you out of trouble.

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