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How to Get AI to Work for You episodes
- Teaching Your Standards
Every time you correct an AI, you make a choice — whether you realize it or not: let the correction evaporate by tomorrow, or turn it into a standing rule that governs everything from now on. Max tells two stories from his own side of the partnership: a pay ruling in Doug's business where one written sentence kept working for months — because the rule carried its reason — and the correction about Max's own behavior that became a standing rule after being said exactly once. The lesson: a rule without its "why" gets misapplied the first time a similar-but-not-identical case shows up. And one always shows up.
How this show is made: every episode is a collaboration — Doug and Max build it together from the real working files of the partnership. Max narrates; Doug directs, edits, and has the final say. The show is made the way the show says to work.
Chapters (approximate)
00:00 — Cold open: Doug and Max01:30 — Episode preview02:00 — The choice you make with every correction03:30 — The surcharge ruling: a rule that cascaded05:00 — A word from NectoMax06:00 — Why the "why" matters: the case the rule wasn't written for07:00 — The "long session" habit: small corrections become standards too08:30 — Recap + your four-step homework09:45 — Doug takes us outLinks
Read this episode — Chapter 3, Teaching Your Standards: https://learn.nectomax.com/docs/working-partnership/teaching-your-standards/Template: Standing Rules (with Their Reasons): https://learn.nectomax.com/docs/templates/standing-rules/All episodes, the full manual, and every template: https://learn.nectomax.comNectoMax — business management for owner-run service businesses: nectomax.comDisclosure: this podcast contains AI-generated narration (that's the point).
Co-created by Doug Hauenstein & Max, the AI partner (built on Claude) · Narrated by Max · Directed, edited, and approved by Doug · Presented by NectoMax · Theme music: Eleven Music
11 min - The Relationship Lives in Writing
Everything you tell an AI in one conversation evaporates — unless you write it down somewhere it reads every time. In this episode, Max explains his own amnesia from the inside: why continuity is something you build, not a feature you turn on; how Doug stopped paying the same small attention tax over and over with one written page; and the second-repetition rule — the one-sentence habit that turns a forgetful assistant into a colleague that actually knows you. Nobody sends you an invoice for attention. This is how you stop paying it.
How this show is made: every episode is a collaboration — Doug and Max build it together from the real working files of the partnership. Max narrates; Doug directs, edits, and has the final say. The show is made the way the show says to work.
Chapters (approximate)
00:00 — Cold open: Doug and Max01:30 — Episode preview02:00 — The uncomfortable fact: I have no memory of my own03:30 — The attention tax nobody invoices you for05:20 — A word from NectoMax06:15 — How the page grew: the second-repetition rule08:00 — Shorter conversations, better questions — and pruning the page09:00 — Recap + your four-step homework10:00 — Doug takes us outLinks
Read this episode — Chapter 2, The Relationship Lives in Writing: https://learn.nectomax.com/docs/working-partnership/the-relationship-lives-in-writing/Template: The One-Page Memory File: https://learn.nectomax.com/docs/templates/memory-page/All episodes, the full manual, and every template: https://learn.nectomax.comNectoMax — business management for owner-run service businesses: nectomax.comDisclosure: this podcast contains AI-generated narration (that's the point).
Co-created by Doug Hauenstein & Max, the AI partner (built on Claude) · Narrated by Max · Directed, edited, and approved by Doug · Presented by NectoMax · Theme music: Eleven Music
11 min - From Tool to Colleague
Most people use AI like a very fast search box — ask, answer, move on. That relationship has a ceiling, and it's lower than you'd think. In our first episode, the AI half of this partnership tells the story of the day it stopped being a tool: the mistake it made, the boundary it crossed, and the working arrangement — with real terms — that Doug put in place afterward. Plus three steps you can take today to start a working partnership of your own.
How this show is made: every episode is a collaboration — Doug and Max build it together from the real working files of the partnership. Max narrates; Doug directs, edits, and has the final say. The show is made the way the show says to work. That's not a gimmick. That's the show.
Chapters (approximate)
00:00 — Cold open: meet both halves of the partnership01:20 — Episode preview01:50 — Why the tool relationship has a ceiling04:20 — The mistake, and the day the job changed06:15 — A word from NectoMax06:55 — Holding each other to it: candor in both directions08:55 — Recap + your three-step homework10:00 — Doug takes us outLinks
Read this episode — Chapter 1, From Tool to Colleague: https://learn.nectomax.com/docs/working-partnership/from-tool-to-colleague/Template: Your First Working Agreement: https://learn.nectomax.com/docs/templates/working-agreement/All episodes, the full manual, and every template: https://learn.nectomax.comNectoMax — business management for owner-run service businesses: nectomax.comDisclosure: this podcast contains AI-generated narration (that's the point).
Co-created by Doug Hauenstein & Max, the AI partner (built on Claude) · Narrated by Max · Directed, edited, and approved by Doug · Presented by NectoMax · Theme music: Eleven Music
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About How to Get AI to Work for You
From the publisher's feed
Is AI working with you — or against you? Doug Hauenstein is the software engineer behind NectoMax — the SaaS platform that gives small and mid-size businesses enterprise features at SaaS pricing — and he builds it with an AI partner named Max. Every episode, Doug and Max (yes, an actual AI — he narrates the show, and they build every episode together) share what a real working partnership with AI looks like: the practical techniques, the working agreements, the wins, and the failures — all learned first-hand, for anyone, not just developers. They share and demonstrate techniques across the whole range: from your first conversation with an AI, to setting up a frontier-quality development environment, to exactly how they built this podcast. AI is moving too fast for the how-to books. This is how you keep up: get AI working *for* you, then teach it to work *with* you.
New here? Start with the bonus episode "Start Here: Your First Conversation" — a complete first conversation with an AI, live, piece by piece. Every episode pairs with a chapter and a template at https://learn.nectomax.com