16d • Weekly Feed
📝 **Week 4 recap — AI as Your Researcher**
Here's what landed this week.
**Monday — News in 60**
Four real things that shifted: Google's NotebookLM added a research mode that browses 50 websites while you do something else, a study of 2,500 professionals found half feel AI is dulling their own thinking (the useful warning), Microsoft quietly added a Researcher feature inside Office, and an AI disproved an 80-year-old assumption — which is also a reminder that AI can be confidently wrong about things in *your* field.
**Tuesday — Daily Rep**
One decision rule: reach for AI when you want thinking done, reach for Google when you need something current or verifiable. Plus the one-word concept to know — hallucination (when AI produces a confident answer that isn't true) — and why a 30-second Google check on anything high-stakes is the whole habit.
**Wednesday — Drill of the Week**
Summarize Anything in 60 Seconds. One prompt, pasted after any wall of text, gives you: what it's about, the three most important points, and whether you need to do anything. A filter you can use every day, on anything.
**Thursday — Workout preview**
The opening move in the 30-minute research dossier build: pick a real topic from work — something you keep nodding along to without fully understanding — write it on a sticky note, and take it into AI. That first step alone changes the framing from "I should read up on this" to "I'm doing it now."
**Friday — Daily Rep**
The follow-up prompt that gets AI to argue against itself: *"What's the most important thing I'm probably not considering here?"* One line, after any AI answer. Immediately widens your picture of a topic before anyone else in the room has thought to ask.
**Saturday — Steal This preview**
Three prompts from the learning pack: the Fast Overview (landscape in two minutes), the Role Filter (filters any topic down to what's relevant for your specific job), and the Verification Checklist (finds the spots you should double-check before you share anything important).
The through-line this week: AI is a fast, sharp research partner — and knowing when to trust it, and when to check its work, is the whole skill.
Next week is Week 5 — AI at Your Job (Applied). We take the research habit and the writing skills from Weeks 3 and 4 and apply them directly to the tasks you do for work: preparing for meetings, drafting documents, handling the inbox, doing the analysis. More specific, more immediately usable.
**Pro members went deeper this week.**
• Drills 2 and 3 — Explain It Like I'm 12 and Get the Counter-Argument — completed the full three-step research loop: summarize it, break it down, then poke holes in it.
• The full Workout: a 6-step, 30-minute hands-on build that produced a one-page shareable research dossier — including a step where you make AI show you its own weak spots before you send anything.
• All 10 prompts from the learning pack, plus the Money Move on using research skills as a career differentiator — specifically, how to become the person who briefs the room instead of just sitting in it.
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