Episode 147
I uploaded my son's entire baseball schedule into Google Calendar in under two minutes this morning. No manual entry, no typos, no cross-referencing dates. I pasted a link into Claude, hit enter, and 18 games appeared on my calendar. Then I did the same thing with soccer. This is the kind of stuff AI can do for you right now, and in this episode, I'm breaking down exactly how I got here.
In this solo episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on my full AI journey, from treating ChatGPT like a glorified Google search to building reusable skills and markdown files that make Claude work smarter every single time I use it. I'm also sharing your survey results (spoiler: most of you are at about 45% comfort level, and that's totally normal) and walking through exactly how to start, no coding required.
What I Cover:
How I went from free ChatGPT to paid Claude in about two years (and why I switched)
The prompting framework I use every time: who you want it to be, what you want it to do, what outcome you need, and any context it should know
The "if you've told it three times, save it as context" rule for markdown files, and the "if you've asked it three times, build a skill" rule for workflows
How the /episode-assets skill turns a raw transcript into show notes, an Instagram caption, and an SEO caption in one command
My full AI tech stack: Claude, Superhuman, Notion AI, Descript, Grammarly, and how each one fits
The five-minute baseball and soccer calendar hack that saved me 30 minutes (and made me the hero of the mom group text)
Connectors I'm using right now: Google Calendar, Gmail, Notion, and why I keep everything on "needs permission" mode
Your survey results: 51% ChatGPT, 32% Claude, 14% Gemini, 3% Copilot, and what that tells us about where everyone's starting from
Why AI is like learning a new language, and why copying someone's markdown files won't make you fluent
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