A weekly newsletter for normal people

Use AI without losing your head.

Everyone around you is either panicking about AI or worshipping it. We do neither. Once a week, we send you one genuinely useful way to use AI — and one way to keep your own judgment switched on while you do.

You don't need to be technical. You don't need to "learn prompt engineering." You need two things: a handful of habits that make AI actually useful in your real life, and a working sniff test for when it's confidently wrong. That's what we write.

What you get every week

• One thing you can do today. A concrete, copy-pasteable way to use AI for something real — a decision, an email, a job application, learning something new.
• One reason to keep your judgment on. Where the AI answer would quietly mislead you this week, and the 20-second check that catches it.
• Zero hype. No "game-changers," no "AI will replace you by Friday." If something is overhyped, we'll say so. If AI is the wrong tool for a job, we'll say that too.

Issues take about four minutes to read. We respect your time; it's the whole point of the brand.

Start with these

• How to check if an AI answer is actually true (in about 20 seconds)

  AI invents confident, specific, wrong details all the time. Here's the quick verification habit that catches most of it.

• Is it safe to put your resume into ChatGPT?

  Mostly yes, with three edits first. What actually happens to what you paste, and the simple rule for what never goes in.

• How to use ChatGPT to write a cover letter that doesn't sound like ChatGPT

  Hiring managers can smell the default AI voice. The fix is to change what you ask for — here's the exact process.