The guides behind every class
Step-by-step guides to keep going between sessions and after class: setup and privacy, your household, a parent’s care, and AI at work.
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Settings, privacy and the habits that make everything else work.
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Before you start: settings and plans
The six settings to change before you put anything real into Claude, including turning off model training and where the incognito button is. Plus what each plan lets you do.
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What never gets typed in
The short never list, why each thing is on it, the settings to change in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, and what to do if you already pasted something you shouldn’t have.
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Take back your mental load
Six things to try on your phone this week, five ways to ask, and the full list of what else people use it for: school paperwork, the Sunday look-ahead, summer camps, a parent’s care.
Your life
The household, the week and a parent’s care.
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Your Monday briefing, on a schedule
Set it up once and a one-page look at your week is waiting before you’re out of bed. Calendar, deadlines, the kids, your parents. Drafts only, nothing sent without you.
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Managing a parent’s care with AI
Appointment prep, the medication list, discharge paperwork, Medicare mail and the update to your siblings. Where it helps, and the line it never crosses.
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Keeping a parent’s information private
Use AI on Mom’s paperwork without handing over her identity. What HIPAA does not cover, what to strip before you paste, and the forms that let you act for her.
Your work and business
Prompts, connectors, skills and the business brain.
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Putting AI to work
The four-part prompt that fixes generic answers, a quoting calculator you can build in a minute, Claude on your own computer, connecting Gmail and your calendar safely, and putting a job on a schedule.
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Teach it once: brains, threads and skills
One project per area of your life. How to set up a brain for your household and your parents, find the conversation you had three weeks ago, and build a skill for your Sunday look-ahead.
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Your first week with a business brain
Day by day: privacy first, one project, three short files, and one real job done five times until it stops coming back generic.