Learn AI step by step
In plain language, tailored to your field. From the basics (what AI actually is) to confident use in your work.
The Learning curve is a fixed series of short lessons that take you steadily from the basics to an advanced level. Each lesson explains one thing, with a concrete tip you can try right away. Nothing to install, no prior knowledge needed.
3 parts · 27 lessons · 3 levels, plus deep dives and lessons that stay current
Below is the Office management Learning curve, as an example. You can read six lessons here for free. As a subscriber you get every lesson, with examples from your own field.
What AI is, and how to trust it
The basics: what AI actually is, how to ask it a good question, and why you never copy anything blindly.
After this part you understand what AI is, you ask it a good question, and you spot a mistake before you copy it into your work.
- What AI really is, for your workFree to read
- The model: the well read intern who does not know your officeFor subscribers
- The assistant: just a conversation, in your own wordsFor subscribers
- One conversation is one workspaceFor subscribers
- Asking a good questionFree to read
- Why AI sometimes talks nonsense with full confidenceFree to read
- Read it first, then send itFree to read
- What you do and do not type inFree to read
- Free or paid: what you get for your moneyFor subscribers
A whole lesson, before you decide
This is what a lesson looks like. It's the first lesson from the Office management Learning curve, “What AI really is, for your work”.
AI: a computer program that learns patterns from examples, instead of following rules that a person typed in exactly.
AI is not a person, and not a colleague who knows your office. It is software that has learned from a huge number of examples: millions of emails, documents and conversations. The newest models often work through a question in steps before they answer. Many tools can also look things up on the internet. But they do not know by themselves how things work at your place, or whether something is still right. That is why it can take a lot of work off your hands, and also why it can get things badly wrong now and then.
Think of one task this week that you mostly do on routine and feel: writing a polite email, tidying up a report. That is exactly where AI can help you, but always with your own eyes over it afterwards.
AI as a tool in your work
The everyday work: writing, summarizing, images, ideas, and handing off dull tasks.
After this part you have AI draft text, summarise long pieces and take dull work off your hands, in your own voice.
See the 10 lessons
- Having texts drafted, in your own toneFor subscribers
- Getting long documents short and clearFor subscribers
- Making an image from a descriptionFor subscribers
- Editing an image you already haveFor subscribers
- Stuck? Let AI think along with youFor subscribers
- Translating and adjusting the toneFor subscribers
- Handing over dull, repetitive workFor subscribers
- AI is already in the tools you knowFor subscribers
- Build your own fixed way of workingFor subscribers
- When is it good enough?For subscribers
Staying in charge of your work
Judgment and responsibility: your rights, bias, safe data, costs, and when not to use AI.
After this part you know your rights, you protect sensitive data, and you know when not to use AI.
See the 8 lessons (1 free to read)
- Copyright: who owns AI work?For subscribers
- AI has prejudicesFor subscribers
- Keeping staff and company data safeFor subscribers
- Keep an eye on the costsFor subscribers
- When not to use AIFree to read
- You stay at the centreFor subscribers
- Keeping up without the hypeFor subscribers
- Protect the voice of the officeFor subscribers
Deep dives, for your field
Then you go deeper: lessons that let you steer AI with your own examples and fixed routines.
See the 3 lessons
- Your own "examples folder" for recurring messagesFor subscribers
- A smart approach to minutes and action pointsFor subscribers
- Comparing suppliers and quotes clearlyFor subscribers
Stays current with the news
And a set of lessons that move with your weekly edition, so your foundation stays sharp as AI changes.
See the 3 lessons
- Your basics, updated: choose tools that really help your officeStays current
- Your basics, updated: safe with staff and company dataStays current
- Your basics, updated: AI in your daily office workStays current
You set the depth
Every lesson comes in three levels: Starter, Practical and In-depth. Same explanation, more or less detail. Just starting out, or a seasoned professional who wants the deep end? Switch for free, whenever you like. Plain language stays plain language, only the depth changes.
The newsletter for your field
Each field has its own edition. Pick your field and see what it covers.
Why it keeps going
The Learning curve isn't a course you finish. It runs alongside your weekly edition: your foundation stays sharp as AI changes, and new depth for your field keeps arriving.
The first month is free. After that it's €7.50 per month: your weekly edition, the whole Learning curve and the depth for your field.