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Guides, playbooks, and tips for giving AI what it needs to work on your behalf — context anchors, agent setup, and building context-driven systems.

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Latest · July 31, 2026 · 5 min read

Why Your AI Drifts (and What Actually Stops It)

Context drift is when AI slowly stops following your instructions, sounding like you, or knowing your situation. Here's why it happens and what actually holds.

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July 29, 2026 · 6 min read

What Is a State of the Union Anchor?

A State of the Union anchor is the context file that tells AI where you are right now — your situation, constraints, and priorities. Here's what goes in one.

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July 22, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Give AI Your Writing Style (So It Actually Sounds Like You)

Pasting one sample won't make AI write in your style. The durable fix is a writing codex — extract your voice once, own it as a file, use it in every tool. Here's how.

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July 21, 2026 · 5 min read

Dharmesh Shah Is Right About Portable AI Context. Here's the Hard Part.

HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah says portable markdown files future-proof your AI workflows. He's right. But what actually goes in the file? The hard part, explained.

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July 13, 2026 · 6 min read

The Best Ways to Give AI Lasting Memory (2026), Compared

ChatGPT remembers you. Claude doesn't, unless you tell it. Gemini keeps its own notes. Here are the real ways to give an AI lasting memory, compared — and the one that actually travels from tool to tool.

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July 9, 2026 · 6 min read

What Is Context Mining?

Context mining is the guided process of surfacing the personal context an AI actually needs — answering curated questions that pull out the durable things about you that you'd never think to write down.

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June 30, 2026 · 5 min read

What Is a Context Anchor?

A context anchor is one durable piece of who you are — your values, your voice, your situation — written once and reused in every AI tool, so the model works from a real foundation instead of guessing.

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June 26, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Train ChatGPT on Yourself (What Actually Works)

You can't really train ChatGPT on your own data — but you can get the result you're after. Here's what training actually means, what works instead, and how to make any AI know you.

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June 25, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Make ChatGPT Remember You

ChatGPT can remember you better than most people realize. Here's how to turn on memory, custom instructions, and projects, where each one stops working, and what to do instead.

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June 24, 2026 · 4 min read

Direction Before Instructions: Why a Better Prompt Won't Make AI Less Generic

You can write the perfect prompt and still get a generic answer. Here's why — the difference between giving your AI instructions and giving it direction, and why durable context, not better prompting, is what finally makes AI sound like you.

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