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The Five Questions That Turn a Messy Task Into an AI Loop (+ the prompts to map yours)

Watch now | Apps taught us to open the right square. Loops are how agents start carrying the recurring work between the squares.

2 hrs ago•Nate

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Why your AI starts from zero every time you open a new chat + my Open Brain guide: the $0.10/month, 45-min fix

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Prompting just split into 4 different skills. You're probably practicing 1 of them (+ 7 prompts and a pre-flight to close the gap)

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I Summarized Mary Meeker's Incredible 340 Page 2025 AI Trends Deck—Here's Mary's Take, My Response, and What You Can Learn

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Why every system you've tried has failed + grab the 90-minute guide to one that won't

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Grab the 5 prompts that get you ready for Fable 5 before it's back

Watch now | You’ve been playing too small. How to find, spec, and review the whole jobs a model like this was built to carry.

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Executive Briefing: Your team is running agents nobody owns. The one-page card and two prompts that fix it.

Watch now | I have watched too many agents fail because everyone wanted what they could do and nobody wanted to own them. The next real AI skill…

Jun 21•Nate

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Your skills are leaving your hands. Don't let a rent-a-brain keep them.

Watch now | Open Brain kept your memory yours. Open Skills keeps the way you work yours, not rented back by whichever AI app wins this month.

Jun 19•Nate

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Vercel deleted 80% of its agent's tools and the agent got better + what to delete from yours (guide inside!)

Watch now | Maintenance is not the boring thing that happens after the real work. It is what keeps useful systems alive.

Jun 17•Nate

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Executive Briefing: Your company is about to get cheap intelligence. That is not the same as being able to use it.

Watch now | OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI are heading to public markets with a story about scarce intelligence. But inside companies, the scarce thing may…

Jun 14•Nate

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Grab my Ultimate Guide to Codex and catch up to the 1 in 1,600 people using it every week (mostly no code!)

Watch now | The catch-up: five evidence tabs, annotations, threads with finish lines, skills, runbooks, and more — everything required to start working…

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