Sharp in Five

Free mini-course

Know where AI helps, where it fails, and what to check before your name goes on it.

In 30 days you'll use AI every workday on the tasks it does well, in the right mode, with the right check, and without pasting anything you shouldn't.

8 lessons5 weeks2 min a dayFreeNo app

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AI at Work: Foundations
8 lessons · 5 weeks
Lesson 1
Brilliant here, wrong over there
Outcomes

What you'll be able to do

  • Tell the tasks AI does brilliantly from the ones it gets confidently wrong
  • Start with the work that pays off fastest: your own drafts and documents
  • Choose the right mode for the job: quick chat, thinking, search or your files
  • Check AI work like an editor, in proportion to the stakes
  • Know what's safe to paste, and set up your account so it stays that way
Audience

Who it's for

You've tried ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini a few times and still aren't sure where it actually helpsYour company gave you an AI tool but no real training, which is most people's situationYou've seen AI get something confidently wrong and want to use it without getting burned
The learning rhythm

Learn it once. Bring it back before it fades.

Each lesson arrives inside your daily brief. The widening gaps are intentional: you retrieve the idea again when remembering takes real effort.

Week 1
  1. Day 1

    Brilliant here, wrong over there

    “Which of these tasks is most likely outside the frontier?”

  2. Day 3

    Start with what you already wrote

    “You have to send a client a proposal today and want AI to help. Which use gives the most value for the least risk?”

  3. Day 5

    Pick the mode before you type

    “Your director wants a one-slide summary of a new EU rule that affects your team, for tomorrow. What's the best way to work?”

Week 2
  1. Day 8

    Check like an editor

    “An AI-assisted market brief goes to your leadership team on Friday. It cites two studies, quotes an industry analyst and includes six numbers. What's the right check?”

  2. Day 11

    What never goes in the chat box

    “You use a free personal AI account. Which of these can you safely paste in?”

Week 3
  1. Day 16 · spaced review, 5 days later

    Quick reps: the frontier, your material and the mode

    “What's the best way to build the page?”

Week 4
  1. Day 23 · spaced review, 7 days later

    Quick reps: the editor's check and the traffic light

    “What do you do before it goes to the client?”

Week 5
  1. Day 30 · spaced review, 7 days later

    The capstone: your AI routine

    “What's the whole play?”

Try lesson 1

How it arrives

Zero extra emails.

No new subscription, no drip sequence, no second inbox thread. The lesson rides inside the daily brief you already get.

Sharp in Five — your daily brief

Your lesson

One idea, one question, two minutes.

Learning science, made practical

Built for recall, not completion.

  1. 01

    One useful idea

    A small lesson keeps cognitive load low enough to think, not skim.

  2. 02

    A question, not a quiz

    Retrieving the idea strengthens recall more than reading it again.

  3. 03

    Return after a gap

    Increasing intervals bring the idea back just as it starts to fade.

Questions

Know where AI helps, where it fails, and what to check before your name goes on it.

In 30 days you'll use AI every workday on the tasks it does well, in the right mode, with the right check, and without pasting anything you shouldn't.

You'll join the Sharp in Five daily brief and this course in one step. Free, unsubscribe any time.