Claude Cowork made you slower (here's why)
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Hey Reader, Everyone told you Claude Cowork would make your business 10x more productive. Instead you feel like you have more work than ever. That's not your fault, and I made the same mistake for months. Here's what's actually going wrong. Your AI chats are a broken.You probably have one chat for marketing, one for content, one for random questions. None of them talk to each other. That's like running a business where marketing and sales never meet, and nobody remembers what was decided last week. No employee could perform in that company. Neither can Claude. The handbook nobody gave it.Think about your best hire. They weren't great on day one. They got great because someone handed them context: who you are, who your customers are, how you like things done. Claude never got that handbook from you. So every chat starts from zero, sounds like a robot, and produces generic work you have to redo. The fix is not better prompts. It's giving Claude the same onboarding you'd give an employee. Once I did that, Claude stopped answering questions and started finishing work. I recorded the exact 5-step setup I use, built for owners with zero technical background: Watch the full Claude Cowork setup here: Talk soon, |
Robin Ebers
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Hey Reader, People keep telling me their AI "breaks everything" and "makes weird decisions." I use the same models. Same tools. Same subscriptions. But I almost never have these problems. For the longest time, I thought I was just lucky. Then I looked at what I actually do differently. It comes down to three things. 1. A minimal AGENT․md file. Think of this like a one-page employee handbook for your AI. Mine is short. Genuinely minimal. It tells the AI to: Keep docs updated as it makes...