The Jay Note.

Hey,

Thanks for joining. Quick orientation so you know what's coming.

What you'll get. One short email a week, every Tuesday morning. It's never about AI in the abstract. It's about one thing I tested (a prompt, a tool, a workflow) and what I learned. Under 60 seconds to read. Always something you can try today.

What you won't get. No "AI is going to change everything" thinkpieces. No 14-email funnels. No course launches every 3 weeks. If I ever have something to sell, I'll say it's a sales pitch.

Your starter pack. While you wait for Tuesday, here are the three resources that get the most use:

→ 50-Tip Guide · the most popular thing on the site
→ AI Opportunity Quiz · 90 seconds to find your highest-ROI move
→ 100-Prompt Library · copy/paste prompts that work

If you ever want to reply, just hit reply. This inbox is mine and I read everything.

See you Tuesday.

Last Wednesday I almost sent a press release with a stat that was off by a factor of 10. Caught it in the second-to-last review. Felt sick about it for an hour.

So this week's experiment was simple: add a "fact-check this draft" step before every customer-facing piece leaves my desk. The prompt I'm now running:

Read this draft and pull out every factual claim. For each: what would I need to verify? Where's it most likely to be wrong? Rank by impact if it turned out to be incorrect.

I've been using it for 6 days now. In that time it's flagged 3 things I hadn't double-checked. Two were fine. One was wrong (a date by a month). Total time invested: ~2 minutes per draft. Total time saved: probably my reputation.

The bigger point: AI is at its best when you stop using it to generate and start using it to verify. Generation is the part everyone talks about. Verification is the part nobody does, and where most of the actual ROI lives.

Try this week: Run the prompt above on the most consequential thing you'll ship this week. See what gets flagged.

See you next Tuesday.

Quick one this week.

Before any meeting where I'm advocating for a decision, I now run this prompt 5 minutes before walking in:

My position is [X] for [reason]. Argue against me as the smartest skeptic in the room. Give me the 3 strongest counter-arguments and the data I should have ready.

That's it. Read for 90 seconds. Walk in.

What it does: I stop being surprised by objections. I sound like I've thought it through (because I have). The conversation gets sharper because their arguments are now mine to address proactively.

Tested it 5 times in the last 3 weeks. The result has been the same every time: shorter meetings, faster decisions, less back-and-forth.

Try this week: Pick the most contested decision you're bringing to a meeting. Run the prompt. Walk in.

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