You’ve heard the gospel: AI is going to change everything. Good, great, grand.
But when you’re staring down a deadline and 80 unread emails, you don’t need philosophy, you need a cheat sheet.
The fastest way to master AI isn’t by watching lectures, it’s by finding a way to replace an hour of your grind with a 10-second prompt. Here are five specific, repeatable ways to automate your most time-consuming professional tasks.
Grab your chatbot of choice (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot—whatever floats your boat) and let’s get to work.
Writing
Staring at a blank page. Tedious, formulaic first drafts. Enough.
You are a professional. You shouldn’t be spending an hour drafting a boilerplate email to a client or writing the first three paragraphs of a report. That’s grunt work.
Instead, mas

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