There was a conversation I needed to have with another program manager, and I kept not having it. He didn't report to me, he was good at the job, and I didn't want to spend the working relationship badly. So I practiced it first, against a Gem built to play him. It pushed back the way he pushes back, told me exactly where I was hedging, and by the time I sat down with the real person, nothing in it was a surprise. Full prompt at the bottom of the post.

I started a new job about a month ago and braced for the usual rebuild, recreating every script and process I'd relied on before. Instead, I connected a few tools on day one. By week two, someone said a name I didn't recognize, and I already had a profile on them. This is what changed when the context showed up before I did.

I built this from an actual presentation to a team that didn't know where to start with AI, then found myself using the same idea to teach my eighty-something relative about cryptocurrency. Four specific habits, nothing about better tools or more time, just moving AI earlier in what you're already doing. Pick one and see what happens.