Get Serious About AI: Claude Edition: A Practical Guide to Better Writing, Research, Documents, and Automation

Across 26 practical chapters, learn to use Claude for writing, research, documents, and automation. Build better requests, check the evidence, and turn promising AI answers into work you can use. - Introduction - Chapter 1: Your First Finished Job with Claude - Chapter 2: Choose Models, Plans, and Limits Wisely - Chapter 3: Design Requests That Produce Usable Answers - Chapter 4: Build Working Context with Projects and Memory - Chapter 5: Write, Edit, and Keep Your Voice - Chapter 6: Read Long Documents Without Losing the Exceptions - Chapter 7: Research with Evidence You Can Follow - Chapter 8: Make Numbers and Spreadsheets Decision-Ready - Chapter 9: Turn Artifacts into Useful Working Tools - Chapter 10: Create Documents and Presentations People Can Use - Chapter 11: Improve Email, Meetings, and Internal Communication - Chapter 12: Develop Marketing Ideas as Testable Hypotheses - Chapter 13: Make Better Decisions with Comparisons and Scenarios - Chapter 14: Use Claude to Learn, Practice, and Think Independently - Chapter 15: Build a Consistent Writing and Publishing Workflow - Chapter 16: Connectors and MCP: Bring the Right Information to the Task - Chapter 17: Skills and Plugins: Reuse Methods Without Losing Control - Chapter 18: Cowork: Delegate a Complete File-Based Job - Chapter 19: Browser Work and Scheduled Tasks - Chapter 20: Claude Code: Build a Small Useful Program - Chapter 21: Keep Development Work Reviewable and Repeatable - Chapter 22: Use the API to Add Claude to Your Own System - Chapter 23: Engineer for Quality, Cost, and Failure - Chapter 24: Protect Data, Rights, and Trust - Chapter 25: Introduce Claude to a Team and Measure Real Value - Chapter 26: A 30-Day Plan from Brief to Delivery - Appendix: A Compact Working Reference - Conclusion: Make the Work Worth Finishing - Short Story: The Room We Make