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How to Automate Recurring Work in Cowork

Claude Cowork is an Anthropic tool available in the Claude Desktop app that can access your full computer and help you to automate your tasks.

Research Brief Skill

"/research-brief" searches the web and synthesizes current information on any topic, person, company, or tool into a tight 300-500 word brief with essentials, relevance, key facts and numbers, what to watch, and sources. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/research-brief-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/research-brief/

What You Need to Have Ready Before Medical School Applications Open

Medical school applications move quickly once the cycle opens, and applicants who prepare early are often the ones who submit the strongest materials. This session is for future applicants who want to understand what should already be in place before the application even opens. You’ll learn how to prepare your activities and clinical experiences, organize recommendation letters, and start shaping a personal narrative that reflects what admissions committees value.

How to Ace Your Ivy League Interview

How to Ace Your Ivy League Interview is a premium, visual guide that walks applicants through every stage of the Ivy League interview process, from research and preparation to presence, delivery, and follow-through. This guide goes school by school across all eight Ivy League institutions, surfacing the niche programs, cultural touchstones, and academic traditions that signal genuine fit to alumni interviewers. It then builds outward into the full arc of a successful interview: how to construct and own your personal narrative, how to decode and answer the questions that appear most consistently, how to carry yourself in the room, how to close strong, and how to follow up in a way that keeps you top of mind. The guide is structured around seven actionable sections and packed with frameworks, do/don't tables, answer scaffolds, and a week-by-week prep timeline. Best for: High school juniors and seniors preparing for Ivy League or highly selective college interviews who want a rigorous, specific, and beautifully designed resource to guide their preparation from first research to final thank-you note.

What BYU Admissions is Looking For

Applying to BYU but unsure what actually moves the needle in admissions? Strong grades matter—but they’re only part of the picture. In What BYU Admissions Is Looking For, you’ll get a clear breakdown of how to position yourself strategically for Brigham Young University. The speaker regularly works 1:1 with applicants navigating competitive admissions, and this session offers rare access to the evaluation frameworks typically shared in private coaching conversations. Who This Is For - High school students planning to apply to BYU - Transfer applicants seeking clarity on positioning - Students with strong academics who want a more compelling application - Applicants unsure how faith, leadership, and extracurriculars fit into their story What You’ll Walk Away With - What BYU weighs most heavily beyond GPA and test scores - How to present leadership, service, and character authentically - The patterns admissions see across successful applicants - The common positioning mistakes I correct in 1:1 sessions - How to align your essays with BYU’s mission and values

Nail the McKinsey Personal Experience Interview

The McKinsey Personal Experience Interview is one of the most distinctive and challenging parts of the consulting process, and many candidates underestimate how different it is from standard behavioral interviews. This session is for candidates preparing for McKinsey who want to approach the PEI with more structure and confidence. You’ll learn how to select and refine your stories, demonstrate leadership and impact with specificity, and communicate your experiences in a way that aligns with what McKinsey evaluates.

How to Create a Reusable AI Skill

This guide covers what should go inside of a SKILL.md and explores multiple methods for creating a skill: from fully manual to fully AI automated.

How to Start a Career in Strategy & Operations

Breaking into Strategy & Operations roles can feel unclear—titles vary, expectations differ by company, and it’s not always obvious how to position your background. This session is for students and early-career professionals who want to understand how to break into S&O and what hiring teams actually look for. You’ll learn how to translate your experience into relevant skills, build a targeted recruiting strategy, and position yourself for roles across startups, tech companies, and larger organizations.

How Engineers Avoid Burnout During Recruiting Cycles

After this session, you will be able to identify the specific cognitive load patterns that accumulate into burnout and apply practical frameworks for restructuring your workload before you hit a wall. We will cover how to audit where your mental energy actually goes in a typical sprint, how to communicate capacity limits to managers without signaling disengagement, and how to build sustainable systems for context-switching across complex codebases.

Vibe Coding Prompts That Work

Anyone who has vibe-coded knows that it takes practice and iteration to learn what does and doesn't work effectively. Here we break down some principles to help flatten out the learning-curve, improve your outputs, and save you tokens.

Preparing now for IB Summer Recruiting

IB summer recruiting moves quickly, and the strongest candidates are the ones who prepare with intention well before applications open. The groundwork you lay now can dramatically shape your outcomes later. In this session, we’ll cover how to sharpen your technical skills, craft a resume that stands out, network strategically, and understand what banks are truly looking for in summer analysts. If you want to enter recruiting season focused, confident, and ready to compete at the highest level, this is where it starts.

Developing a Compelling Dental School Personal Statement

A compelling dental school personal statement clearly communicates your motivation for dentistry, your commitment to patient care, and the experiences that shaped your path. In this session, you’ll learn how to identify meaningful clinical and academic moments, structure your narrative for clarity and impact, and avoid common mistakes that make essays feel generic. Whether you’re starting fresh or refining a draft, you’ll leave with a practical framework to craft a thoughtful, authentic, and memorable personal statement.

Career Reset: Break the Cycle and Find Work That Fits

Many professionals find themselves stuck in careers that once made sense but no longer feel aligned. Work becomes reactive, decisions feel unclear, and the path forward gets harder to see. This session is designed to help you pause, reset, and regain direction. We’ll explore how to break the cycle of career chaos and reconnect with the kind of work you’re meant to do—work that aligns with your strengths, values, and energy. In this session you will: - Recognize the signals that it may be time for a career shift - Clarify what “career fit” actually looks like for you - Learn practical ways to evaluate whether to stay, pivot, or reset - Walk away with a clearer framework for making your next career decision If you’ve been asking yourself “Is it time for a change?”—this conversation will help you find the answer and the next step forward.

AI Monthly News Update - April 2026 (Slides)

Join us for the AI Monthly News Update, where we dive into the latest trends and insights in AI. I'm Solomon Christ, your guide on this AI journey. With a background in AI + Automation, I've dedicated my career to helping individuals and businesses unlock the true potential of AI—not by turning you into a tech wizard, but by enhancing your existing skills to make you unstoppable. I specialize in educating SMBs on implementing AI tools through practical, hands-on approaches. In this session, we'll cover the latest news that was just released in the past month helping you keep up to date in the ever changing AI Landscape! Spaces are limited, so don't miss out on this opportunity to elevate your business with AI. RSVP now to secure your spot and start your journey towards becoming 1000× more powerful with AI + Automation!

3 AI Skills to Land your Job in ... The Automotive Industry

Some people want to work with code, data, or financial models. I understand that. For me, it was always the physical object: the part you can hold, the vehicle you can drive, the product that exists in the real world. I spent 30 years in the automotive industry, in roles from product engineering to divisional CEO at a Tier 1 supplier. I know what OEMs and Tier suppliers look for; I also know which skills are shifting fast right now because of AI. This Tuesday series focuses on industries with tangible products. The first session covers automotive: one of the largest, most technically complex, and most globally connected industries on the planet. We will discuss three specific AI skills that are changing what hiring managers expect in 2025, and how you can demonstrate them before you walk into an interview. If you want a career building, selling, or improving things you can see and touch, this session is for you.

Career Pathways in Trust and AI Safety

Trust and AI safety roles are growing quickly, but the paths into them are often unclear and highly interdisciplinary. This session is for students and professionals who want to understand how to break into this space and what backgrounds actually translate. You’ll learn how to map your current experience to relevant roles, identify the core skills and knowledge areas that matter, and position your interest in AI safety in a credible, differentiated way.

Taking Control of AI Conversations

After this session, you will know how to structure your prompts to get outputs that actually match your intent, how to identify when an AI response needs to be pushed further, and how to build a repeatable workflow that saves time without sacrificing quality. These are the patterns that separate people who use AI effectively from those who get generic results and give up.

My AI Workflow

After this session, you will be able to map out a personal AI workflow that saves time on repetitive tasks and sharpens the quality of your work output. We will cover how to chain AI tools together for multi-step automation, how to build lightweight agents that handle routine decisions without your constant input, and how to identify which parts of your workflow are actually worth automating.

Timing Strategies for the LSAT

After this session, you will know how to allocate time across LSAT sections in a way that protects your strongest question types and limits costly guessing. We will cover pacing benchmarks for Logical Reasoning and Logic Games, how to recognize when to cut a question and move on, and the decision framework that separates high scorers from those who run out of time.

Challenging Boss? The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

Navigating the complexities of managing up can be challenging, especially when dealing with a difficult boss. Join me, for an insightful session on "The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up," where we'll explore essential leadership development and communication skills to help you thrive in your role. Topics: Understanding Your Boss's Perspective Creating Credibility Prompting Your Boss (BossGPT) Dealing with challenging bosses (Micromanagers, Absentee Bosses, The Chaos Creator) Plus - Q&A time to cover any specific challenges About Jeff Sigel: With over two decades of experience in marketing and leadership, including serving as Vice President at Cracker Barrel and Ahold Delhaize, I bring a wealth of knowledge to this session. As author of "The Middle Matters: A Toolkit for Middle Managers," I specialize in empowering middle to senior level leaders to build trust and drive success. My coaching approach is tailored to help you become a more effective and impactful leader.