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Getting Started with AI

Use AI as a personal assistant, thinking partner, and life enhancer — without handing over your judgment.

  • The SDR method — Structure, Dialogue, Result — a habit for every AI conversation
  • Why vague prompts get vague answers — and how to fix yours
  • Hands-on exercises you do right on the page — no signup required
  • How to keep yourself in charge of risky decisions, not the AI
  • A free one-page SDR cheat sheet (PDF) to keep by your desk
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FormatWeb · Interactive
AuthorDouglas Hall
Updated2026
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This is the foundation everything else here builds on. It's tool-neutral — the method works the same whether you use Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — and it's free to read in full, with interactive exercises on the page.

If you're brand new to AI, start here. The paid guides go deeper on one tool or one use case at a time.