Learn AI

You already use AI. This is the part almost everyone skips.

1. 1

   Turn on memory and write your custom instructions

   Tell it what you do, what you are working towards and how you want to be answered. Every chat after this starts from there instead of from nothing.

   ChatGPT Claude Gemini

2. 2

   Put something real you are working on into a project

   A brief, a report, a module, last quarter's numbers. Ask questions of the actual thing instead of pasting fragments into a fresh chat every time.

3. 3

   Talk to it out loud about something you are stuck on

   Voice, ten minutes, no typing. Explaining a problem badly out loud is how you find out which part you do not actually understand.

4. 4

   Ask two different models the same hard question

   Where they disagree is where you should not have trusted either one. This is the habit that stops you sending a confident wrong answer.

The difference between using it as autocomplete and using it as a tool.

1. 5

   Get it to attack your work instead of writing it

   Paste in something you already made. Ask what is weak, what is missing, and what a sceptical reader would push back on first.

2. 6

   Turn a mess of notes into something you would actually send

   Meeting notes into an email, scattered research into one page. The test is whether you would put your name on it without editing.

3. 7

   Give it real data and find something you did not already know

   A spreadsheet from work, your own spending, a public dataset. Upload the file and make it argue for what the numbers say.

4. 8

   Research something with sources you can actually check

   These two cite where the answer came from, so you can follow the link and find out whether it is true.

   NotebookLM Perplexity

5. 9

   Learn something new until you can explain it with the tab closed

   Pick the thing in your field you have been avoiding. Keep going until you could explain it to a colleague without looking anything up.

6. 10

   Build a custom assistant that knows your work

   A GPT, a Claude Project or a Gem, loaded with your own documents and told what job it is doing. The first thing on this list somebody else could use.

   Asks for a link to what you made.

Make things that did not exist before. You do not need to be able to code.

1. 11

   Make a working web page without writing code

   Describe the page, it builds it, and you change it by asking. One afternoon, and the thing is live on a real URL.

   LLovable v0 BBolt

   Asks for a link to what you made.

2. 12

   Automate something you do every week

   The report you assemble by hand, the files you rename, the numbers you copy between two places. Set up once, done every week after.

   n8n Zapier Make

3. 13

   Write and run a real script with an AI coding tool

   It does not matter that you cannot code. Say what you want it to do, run it, and fix it by describing what went wrong.

   Claude Code Cursor

4. 14

   Connect it to live data or an API

   A sheet that updates itself, a feed, your own calendar. This is the step where a demo becomes a thing that keeps working without you.

5. 15

   Ship something that does something

   A form that submits, a login that works, a database that remembers. Not a page: a thing with moving parts.

   Asks for a link to what you made.

6. 16

   Make the images, video or voice for it yourself

   The part people used to brief out and wait a week for. Now it is an hour.

   HHiggsfield RRunway ElevenLabs

7. 17

   Make something because a real person asked you for it

   Not a practice project. Somebody with an actual problem, who will tell you when it is wrong.

8. 18

   Rebuild a small piece of what a company you want to work for does

   Their signup flow, their dashboard, their weekly report. The most effective thing you can put in front of a hiring manager, because it is about them and nobody else sends it.

   Asks for a link to what you made.

The part an employer can actually check. This is where the whole list is aimed.

1. 19

   Put your work somewhere public with your name on it

   GitHub, a post, your own page. Findable by somebody who searches for you, which is the first thing a recruiter does.

   Asks for a link to what you made.

2. 20

   Get ten people who are not your friends to use it

   This is where you find out whether it is any good, and it is a far better interview answer than a project nobody ever opened.

3. 21

   Teach one thing you learned, in public

   A post, a video, a lunch talk at work. Teaching is how you find out what you actually know, and it stays searchable afterwards.

4. 22

   Do a real task from a job description you actually want

   Take one responsibility off a live posting, do it properly, and keep the output. You now have an answer to "have you done this before".

   Asks for a link to what you made.

5. 23

   Do a piece of paid AI work

   Remote, paid by the hour, open across Southeast Asia, and already listed on this site. The first line on this list that pays.

   AAI work on Worksider

   Asks for a link to what you made.

6. 24

   Research a company properly before you talk to them

   What they sell, who pays for it, their last six months of news, who you would report to. Twenty minutes, and it is obvious in the room.

7. 25

   Build one page that collects everything above

   This is the page you send instead of a CV. What you made, what it does, and what you learned making it.

   Asks for a link to what you made.