The Pretty Shiny Things | AI for People Who Have Other Things to Do

Someone is charging almost $9,000 to teach you how to build AI employees, and half the people using that term don’t seem to know what it actually means. This week I’m busting two myths: that you have to pay thousands to get AI working in your business, and that a project that knows your voice is an AI employee.

In this week’s Pod Shiny Sheet 🌌

• The exact prompt I use to get Claude to interview me before it builds anything
• My free first step: the list of jobs that make you groan
• What an AI employee actually has, in six parts
• The one sentence to say before you ask AI to make anything new

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Until next time, go be present, be creative, embrace the pretty shiny things, and let the robots handle the rest.✨

You can love your work, work hard, and still have no idea how to turn it off. After three days of camping with my laptop closed, I came home excited for Monday, and I finally figured out why I’ve been looking at balance all wrong. This week: why your balance doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, what AI can and can’t do for it, and the experiment I’m starting right now. If you’re ready for a different kind of balance, you’re in the right place.

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In this episode:

• Why I came home from a three-day retreat excited for Monday instead of dreading it
• The balance myth: why your balance doesn’t have to look like a pie chart, or like anyone else’s
• Why working hard and loving your work isn’t the problem
• What AI can do for balance (it can make leaving possible), what it can’t do (fill your cup), and how it can quietly make the work half of your life bigger
• Three questions to find your version: when you do your best work, what actually refills you, and what your reset rhythm is
• The experiment I’m starting: letting AI schedule my days for a week or two

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I get overwhelmed by AI too, and I have an entire podcast about it. This week: why there’s no such thing as catching up, the three levels of using AI, and the four-part formula for handing AI a whole job instead of babysitting every step.

In this week’s Pod Shiny Sheet 🌌

• The three levels of using AI
• The hand-off formula: outcome, stuff, rules, finish line
• How I hand off a messy inbox
• The prompt I use when my anxiety starts narrating an email

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You did the homework, you opened the app, and it handed you back something that reads like a LinkedIn post from 2014. This week: why AI keeps giving you beige, how to ask so you get real answers, and how to set it up once so you stop explaining your whole life every time you open a new chat.

In this week’s Pod Shiny Sheet 🌌

• The three questions to answer before you hit Enter
• My “don’t say this, say this instead” swaps
• The advisor instructions that stop AI from agreeing with everything
• How to set up memory, instructions and projects

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For most of history, there’s been one rule about getting ahead: either you had the time to do the thing yourself, or you had the money to pay someone else to do it. This week: how AI is breaking that rule for about $20 a month, the real limits, and which AI app to start with.

In this week’s Pod Shiny Sheet 🌌

• The two trades AI just opened up to almost anyone
• Which AI app to start with, and why to stick with one
• ChatGPT or Claude: a simple rule of thumb
• Your 10-minute homework

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AI is going to replace your creativity. That’s the headline everywhere, but for a brain like mine, AI is doing the opposite. This week: why your ADHD brain was built for this, how to stop using AI like Google, and how to use it as an outsourced executive function without letting it do your thinking for you.

In this week’s Pod Shiny Sheet 🌌

• The five ADHD strengths that make you good at AI
• Copy-and-paste prompts for brain dumps and decision paralysis
• Where AI doesn’t belong
• My five rules for using AI without frying your brain

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Two years ago, I was ignoring AI actively and on purpose. In this first episode, I’m telling you how I went from “I don’t have time for this” to using it every day, the text that started this whole show, and what we’re going to talk about here.

In this week’s Pod Shiny Sheet 🌌

• The text that started The Pretty Shiny Things
• Why feeling behind on AI is normal, even for the tech person in the room
• The four lanes every episode lives in
• What’s coming next

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Until next time, go be present, be creative, embrace the pretty shiny things, and let the robots handle the rest.✨

Feel like everyone else somehow learned how to use AI while you missed the memo?

Yeah. Me too.

The Pretty Shiny Things Podcast is for ADHD millennials who want to use AI to make life easier—without the hype, overwhelm, or feeling like you need to become a completely different person to keep up.

I’m Kat, and not that long ago, I was actively ignoring AI. On purpose. Now I use it every day to get some of the lists, calendars, admin, and general life stuff out of my brain and off my plate.

This podcast is about how I got there—and how you can too.

New episodes every week starting September 9th.