Leland+ Content Library

Home for Ambition #5 — Weekly Live Show [4/17/2026] (Recording)

Home for Ambition is a weekly live show, by Leland, for people trying to stay ahead as work, learning, and opportunity keep changing. Each episode tackles a handful of timely, high-signal topics across AI, careers, education, and the future of work. We expect thoughtful debate, unique perspectives, and practical takeaways you can actually use. It is not a typical interview show or a generic news recap. It is a live roundtable built to help ambitious people make sense of what is changing, understand what matters, and leave with a sharper point of view on how to navigate what comes next.

A Skill for Creating Skills

"/skill-creator" is Anthropic's official skill that creates new skills from scratch, modifies and improves existing skills, runs evals to test skill performance, and benchmarks skills with variance analysis and description optimization. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/skill-creator-skill.zip -d ~/.agents/skills/skill-creator/

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.

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/

Job Finder Skill

"/job-finder" searches the web for job listings by industry, level, and location; it deduplicates against a running Google Sheet tracker and sends a draft formatted email digest with links to new postings. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/job-finder-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/job-finder/

Meeting Prep Skill

"/meeting-prep" generates a pre-meeting brief by pulling upcoming calendar events, searching Notion for relevant project context, and scanning Slack for recent conversations. This is all synthesized into a one-page brief covering purpose, outcomes, open questions, and prep notes. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/meeting-prep-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/meeting-prep/

Notion Task Manager Skill

"/notion-task-manager" parses brain dumps, bullet lists, meeting notes, or voice transcripts into structured Notion tasks with inferred title, project, owner, priority, and deadline. It then creates them in the right database and confirms what was added. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/notion-task-manager-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/notion-task-manager/

Ask Me Anything: Medical School Applications with a Current Adcom

The medical school application process can feel opaque, and many applicants have questions that aren’t easily answered by guides or forums. This session is for prospective students who want direct insight from someone evaluating applications every day. You’ll learn what admissions committees prioritize, how to frame your experiences effectively, and what common mistakes to avoid when preparing your application.

Perfecting Your Pitch

After this session, you will know how to structure a startup pitch that clearly communicates traction, differentiation, and ask in the time you actually have. We will cover how to lead with the problem in a way that earns attention, how to frame your market sizing without losing credibility, and how investors typically decide whether to keep listening after the first two minutes.

The Executive Leap: A Playbook for First Time Executives

Are you ready to transition from a functional role to a business leader? Join me, Kim, for an insightful session on becoming a first-time executive. With over 20 years of experience in leadership and coaching, I specialize in empowering high-potential leaders to excel in their careers. As the Founder of Surko Coaching, I've partnered with executives to enhance their executive presence, mental resilience, and strategic decision-making, leading to significant career advancements and organizational influence. During this event, we'll cover essential topics like leadership development, communication skills, decision-making, and strategic planning. My background includes senior roles at Flowcode and Bluecore, where I successfully led cross-functional teams and drove substantial growth. As an ICF Accredited Coach and Certified Professional Coach, I leverage tools like the Energy Leadership Index to help clients overcome self-limiting beliefs and achieve sustainable success. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your full potential and achieve your professional goals. Space is limited, so RSVP now to secure your spot!

Three Types of AI Memory

There are three types of AI memory: in-context memory, file-based memory, and retrieved memory. This reference card outlines examples of each and tips for how to prioritize how you save and transfer data to AI Agents.

Create Scheduled Tasks in Claude

Learn a quick an easy way to set up automated tasks using either Claude Cowork or Claude Code.

Ace Your Consulting Case Interviews

After this session, you'll know how to structure your thinking under pressure, what separates a good case answer from a strong one, and how to handle the moments where candidates most often lose the interviewer. We'll cover the specific frameworks that hold up across McKinsey, BCG, and Bain formats, and how to communicate your reasoning in a way that signals real business intuition rather than rehearsed templates.

Headhunters and Resumes: How to Get Noticed in PE Recruiting

Private equity recruiting is highly selective, and your resume and cover letter need to communicate impact, rigor, and investment judgment quickly. This session is designed for candidates targeting PE roles who want to understand how top applicants position their experience and stand out on paper. You’ll learn how to structure a results-driven resume, highlight deal and transaction experience effectively, and craft a cover letter that clearly signals fit and interest in the firm.

GMAT Advanced Quant Workshop: Exponents & Roots - Applied Strategies & Tips

Many high-scoring GMAT candidates hit a ceiling on Quant because of advanced exponent and root problems. These questions aren’t just about knowing the rules—they test whether you can recognize patterns, simplify quickly, and avoid time-consuming calculations. In GMAT Advanced Quant Workshop: Exponents & Roots – Applied Strategies & Tips, you’ll learn how top performers approach the hardest versions of these questions. The coach regularly works 1:1 with GMAT candidates and will share the same problem-solving strategies used in coaching sessions to help students push from strong scores into the top percentile. Who This Is For - GMAT test-takers aiming for a 48–51 Quant score - Students comfortable with basics but struggling with harder exponent and root problems - Candidates looking to improve speed and efficiency on advanced Quant - Test-takers who want a clearer approach to high-difficulty problem types What You’ll Walk Away With - How to simplify complex radical and exponent expressions quickly - The exponent patterns that appear most often in hard GMAT problems - When to calculate exactly vs. when to use estimation strategically - The reasoning patterns that separate a 48 from a 51 on Quant

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.

Build a Quality Rubric for Your AI Workflow

A quality rubric is a set of explicit, measurable criteria that define what a good output looks like for a specific task. It answers the question: "How do I know when this is good enough to use?"

How To Write Outstanding Law School Application Essays [4/16/2026] (Recording)

Your law school application essays are arguably the most important aspect of your law school applications. To have the best outcomes and plenty of options at the end of the process, you need to craft compelling essays with solid narratives that paint a picture beyond your numbers. We will talk about different essay prompts and how best to tackle them, why it makes sense to have two 'main' essays instead of just one, how to handle optional essays and the dreaded 'why x school' essays. We will also have time for some 'Ask Me Anything' at the end.

Claude Chat vs. Cowork vs Code

There are a lot of options for how to approach tasks using AI. Learn which interface to reach for why one might be more suited to specific tasks than the others.

Giving Context to Your Agents: Making Your First CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md is a plain text file that loads automatically at the start of every Claude Code or Cowork session. It tells Claude who you are, what you are working on, what tools you use, and how you want Claude to behave.