AI Basics — Your First Conversation
Learn to steer a conversation to a useful checked result. Practice asking for help, providing context, improving a request, and choosing what comes next. Saved Projects and file uploads are optional capabilities, not entry requirements.
Open AI Basics →See the nine beginner lessons
- 01 — What AI Can Do for You
- 02 — Choose an Assistant and Open a Chat
- 03 — Get Your First Useful Result
- 04 — Ask for What You Want
- 05 — Work Through a Problem with AI
- 06 — Give AI Text or a File to Work From
- 07 — Tell the Assistant How to Help You
- 08 — Set Up a Project for Continuing Work
- 09 — Check Your Work and Choose What Comes Next
Exercise Library
There are 27 practical exercises. Choose the one that helps with your task, then use its guidance and checks in your own workspace.
Open the Exercise Library →See the exercise subjects
- Ad Copy Builder
- Board of Advisors
- Build a Personal Tool
- Codebase Explainer
- Competitive Landscape Map
- Customer Archetype Builder
- Customer Discovery Questions
- Customer Field Notes
- Decision Matrix Builder
- Decision Record
- Email Template Library
- Executive Briefing
- Finance Analyzer
- First Pull Request
- First Repository and Commit
- Industry Researcher
- Interview Coach
- Landing Page Brief
- LinkedIn Profile Optimizer
- Negotiation Simulator
- Presentation from Notes
- Project Brain
- Resume Tailorer
- Roadmap Builder
- Stakeholder Map and User Stories
- Venture Problem Hypothesis
- Workflow Library Builder
Seven paths into useful work.
Mini-courses connect canonical exercises. Choose a task, follow the useful transitions, and try the method on a changed case when that helps.
Everyday AI — Practical Examples
Apply the basics to a personally useful email or résumé, then check and improve it.
Explore →Startup Foundations
Develop a customer-grounded problem hypothesis and a useful next investigation.
Explore →Digital Marketing
Turn a supported offer into an honest message and an informative test.
Explore →AI Tools and Workflows
Produce a source-grounded synthesis that helps a particular audience make sense of a topic.
Explore →Coding for Shippers
Make a small reversible software change and prepare it for review.
Explore →Prompting and Reusable Workflows
Preserve a method that proved useful, then adapt it without losing its limits.
Explore →Product Thinking
Connect stakeholder evidence to a bounded scope and a defensible first priority.
Explore →Coming Soon
More depth is on the way.
New Venture Planning
A full-length course to be adapted from Chris’s Drexel teaching. It is not available yet.
Prod-ject Managing
A future full-length project-management course. The final structure and lessons are still to come.
Vibe Coding for Shippers
A future full-length programming course. Current coding mini-course exercises are available now.
No launch date is announced. These are course previews, not delivered programs.
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