One hour, hands on. You leave with two things you made and can use on Monday: a style guide in your own voice, and a board of everything on your plate. Same three rules both times.
Show it the finished thing, and it works out the instructions. That’s the move behind everything we do today.
Your sent folder is the truest version of how you write. We start with that, and work backwards from it.
Show it a golden example of what good looks like, and it writes the instructions to make more like it. Four steps.
I’m going to paste some emails from my sent folder. This is my golden example: the truest version of how I write. Work backwards from it. Study my tone, my structure, the phrases I use, how I open and sign off. Then write me a reusable house-style prompt I can give you in future so everything you draft sounds like me. Break my style into its parts, and give me a short style guide I can keep.
Paste a few real emails from your sent folder.
The prep, the chasing, the half-remembered promises. Sixty to seventy percent of the work, and nobody points AI at it.
I’m going to brain-dump everything on my plate. Then look at my calendar for the next two weeks, my inbox, and any recent meeting notes or transcripts in my files. Pull out anything that’s a task or a commitment, and combine it with my brain dump. Organise it all into a Kanban board with the columns To do, Doing, Waiting on, and Done. Group by theme and flag anything urgent. What else do you need from me? Here’s my brain dump: [paste]
Add up everything we made together today: the style guide, the board, all of it. Roughly how many hours would this have taken a human to do? Give it to me as an itemised list, so I can see the time I just saved.
The time you just saved, itemised.
You become the one directing the work, not the one waiting on it.
The same move that made your style guide is how you build an agent.
A look at some of the agents I run day to day, and the folders that keep them in order. This is what an agent can do once it’s built.
The only way this sticks is to use it. Give yourself time this week. Point it at lots of tasks, not just one. When you’re not sure where to start, ask.
I’m about to [do this task]. How can you help me?
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