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A collection of my most-read deep dives on AI strategy, implementation, and leadership.

The Complete AI Learning Roadmap for 2025: Go From Zero to ChatGPT-5 Ready before ChatGPT-5 Comes Out!

I wrote the AI Guide I wish I had starting out: fresh GPT-5 coverage, no-fluff explanations, a curated learning toolkit, and the influencers, researchers, and builders to follow now.

Read on Substack Jun 30, 2025

Ready for ChatGPT-5: Grab a Complete 139 Page Prompting Guide That's a Complete Operating System for Life and Work

Get ahead of ChatGPT-5 with my 139 page prompt playbook that's build to fully harness the full power of today's models to tackle strategy, trade-offs, learning and crisis with systematic AI workflows

Read on Substack Jun 26, 2025

Beyond the Perfect Prompt: The Definitive Guide to Context Engineering—The Next Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

Why context engineering will define how intelligent systems behave—and why you need to understand it now in order to understand AI agents, the evolution of AI job roles, and where AI is going in 2026!

Read on Substack Jun 20, 2025

The Definitive Guide to AI Agents in 2025: Technical Implementation, Strategic Decisions, and Market Reality

AI Agents are THE defining technology trend of 2025—and I've finally written the comprehensive implementation guide that simply doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet. Long read, but worth it!

Read on Substack Jun 17, 2025

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

Yes, it's really 340 pages, and yes I really compressed it down, called out key takeaways, and shared what you can actually learn about building in the AI space based on 2025 macro trends!

Read on Substack Jun 02, 2025

Learn AI The Easy Way: A Complete Visual Guide to All 16 of the Best AI Models In the World, Including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and More!

This one is for anyone who's ever had trouble picking an AI model. Now you can! I have printable cue cards, exercises for kids and adults alike, and an overview of the 16 best models in the world!

Read on Substack Jun 03, 2025

Surfing the Guardrails: 7 Production-Grade Prompting Patterns I Stole from Claude's (Alleged) System Prompt

A 10,000-word system prompt leak reveals a new 80-20 rule for prompting and challenges us to be specific (and defensive) in how we prompt! I dig into the specific tactics and how to apply them here

Read on Substack May 29, 2025

Taming the Genie: How to Read the Code You Just Wished Into Existence

You've rubbed the lamp—an AI genie handed you 1,000 shiny lines and it all runs, for now. Peek behind the purple smoke, trace each spell, and keep your newfound magic from biting back.

Read on Substack May 07, 2025

Your Prompt Is the Product: Working with o3 & o4-mini-high in the Agentic Era

A hands-on playbook for turning OpenAI's newest reasoning models into agents that think, verify, and act—plus key prompt simplifiers that work with more advanced, tool-using reasoning models!

Read on Substack Apr 24, 2025

We killed your startup, lol—what to build when Sam Altman keeps shipping better models

What do you build when the models just keep getting better? I wrote a guide for builders, startup founders, and frankly anyone who is worried these days about their job because they work at a startup!

Read on Substack Apr 22, 2025

Your Team is Using AI Wrong: The Hidden Pattern Behind High-Performing AI Teams

The best teams aren't just using AI differently—they've discovered something deeper about how humans and machines think together. Here's what everyone else is missing.

Read on Substack Apr 11, 2025

The AI Resume Survival Guide (for 2025 and Beyond)

Resumes aren't doing their jobs anymore because of AI. So I wrote a reset for the AI age: how to talk about AI well, how to use AI in resume creation, and how to handle AI resume checkers

Read on Substack Apr 16, 2025

How I Think About MCP: A Practical Guide to Tool Use in AI Agents

What Model Context Protocol really is, where it does and doesn't work, how it compares to APIs and LangChain, and why I think it's the cutting edge of software on the web now!

Read on Substack Apr 09, 2025

From 0 to 5K: The Complete Simplified Guide to Getting Going with AI

A step-by-step system for turning AI into your daily partner—from spite-driven development to workflows that make everything from writing to analysis WAY easier. Aimed at beginners this time!

Read on Substack Apr 08, 2025

My Prompt Stack for Work: 16 Prompts In My AI Toolkit That Make Work a LOT Easier

These prompts cover everything from presentations to product to analyzing customer data to smart tradeoff thinking—they show how I'm using smart prompts to make AI a true partner at work!

Read on Substack Apr 04, 2025

Nate's Secret Sauce: A Prompt Engineering Masterclass using 19 Prompts To Write a 47-Page Report on the History of AI

A Complete Guide to how I use ChatGPT-4o, o3-mini-high, o1-Pro, and Deep Research to Craft Prompts That Unlock Incredible Deep Dive Reports—Prompts and 47 Page Report Included!

Read on Substack Apr 02, 2025