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Each issue makes one argument about how to use AI at work — clearly, practically, without assuming a technical background. Some weeks a workflow you can use the same day. Some weeks a reframe that changes how you think about AI entirely.
A hands-on assignment
Every issue ends with one specific thing to try — built on the insight that reading about AI compounds slowly, but using it compounds fast. Most newsletters stop at insight. This one doesn't.
Quick hits
Two or three short observations from the week — practitioner notes, not tech journalism. The kind of thing worth knowing without a 3,000-word explainer around it.
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Thayer Method, Explained
No one is coming to teach you AI. But you have everything you need to teach yourself. This newsletter is here to help.
I'm John Crowley. Each week I share what I'm learning about AI in professional contexts — how I'm using it, how others are using it, and what's actually worth your time.
I'm not a journalist or a VC. I'm an entrepreneur, and my focus is practical: how knowledge workers can save time, money, or both. Most of the smart, accomplished professionals I know are barely scratching the surface with a free version of ChatGPT. The gap between what's possible and what people are actually doing is enormous. This newsletter is for people who want to close it.
The approach is shaped by the Thayer Method — a 200-year-old framework for learning that formed the basis of my education at West Point, and the same insight behind the HBS case method. Prepare independently; apply in practice. I think it's the right frame for this moment in AI.
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