Field Guide No. 02 · Dr. Simone Ellis
You did not fail at AI. You skipped the onboarding.
You typed something vague, got something generic, decided the tool was not ready, and quietly went back to doing it yourself. That was not the tool. That was a new hire with no brief.
Free Six pages. Five minutes to read, ten to set up, and you can run it on real work today.
One.Why the first attempt flopped. Three mistakes, all fixable in one sitting.
Two.The five things AI needs before it can be useful. Skip one and you get generic.
Three.A fill-in-the-blank prompt, plus a one-line fix for every way the output misses.
A party trick impresses you once. Staff shows up on Monday.
