Building an AI Practice (And Maybe a Class)
I've been trying to figure out how I got comfortable with AI so I can help others get there. There are many tricks and tips that can be shared that can make someone more effective but the thing I keep coming back to is the practice. The more time on task the more you get a feel for what additional experiments might be worthwhile. I don't want to romanticize this but this seems much more like learning to speak a language or to dance. You can learn the steps but it's the practice that gets you to the point where you can really freelance.
Early on in my journey, I forced myself to publish writing every day for 30 days. It was uncomfortable. Most days I had nothing to say. But that daily commitment pushed me into unfamiliar territory with AI tools, and now I use them for everything from building software and automations to writing client proposals.
I now build software not for its own sake, but as a means to an end and sometimes just to write a better email. What might have been infeasible before has become a 20-minute side quest. Then I reuse that software for document creation, functional spec synthesis, customer feedback analysis... Each experiment compounds. Each step enables the next.
So I'm thinking of teaching a class to help people make room for that practice and that habit and I'd love your feedback on it. Let me know if it's a bad idea, a good idea or a great idea. Or what I should change to make it something you might consider or recommend.
The format: 4 sessions across 4 weeks. 1 hour of lecture/demo followed by 30 min of Q&A. Covering a sampling of subjects from prompts and context engineering to document generation, vibe coding and automation. Copy-paste work styles, "projects" usage, Cursor and Claude code.
Here's what makes this different: Daily experiments required. Every day, you submit some artifact from 10 minutes you spent using AI. Could be a recipe you generated, an email you cowrote, a landing page for an idea, some commits on an app. Whatever you have the nerve to submit.
Price: $250. I give you $50 back if you submit every daily experiment.
I'm thinking of capping this at 20 people. If you're interested or know someone who should be, let me know what would make this unmissable for you.
Still debating whether to focus on a specific profile - product management? Specs, analysis, customer feedback synthesis, prototypes? The current approach is more of a tasting menu, directional and inspirational for your own experimentation. But very much open to your input on what would be most valuable.
Hit reply and let me know. Even a one-line response helps me shape this.