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THEY DESERVE YOUR ATTENTION<\/strong> \u2731 Focus Timer for Chrome.<\/strong> Time Boxing FTW<\/a> ! \u2731 MAKE PROGRESS.<\/strong> Discounted for a limited number of copies.<\/a> \u2731 The Art of Strategy.<\/strong> The serious email, subscribe for free.<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n
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Cape Town, Antonio Civita 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Whether you’re looking to change jobs or not, your job is changing. The only question is: do you really want to keep it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomer Cohen<\/a> , LinkedIn\u2060<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf\u2191<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ten signals collected by reading industry sources, talking to clients in session, and testing them on my own work.<\/p>\n\n

Signals to anticipate how the world is changing in terms of how we work, sell, and decide. I’ve turned them into little guides to help us get started on the week, before the week gets to us. <\/p>\n\n

1. How to Write Prompts That Get the Right Results the First Time<\/h2>\n\n

The most reliable formula for speaking with an LLM is also the oldest: person + task + context + format<\/strong> . It’s the same structure recommended in Claude’s official documentation<\/a> and in the OpenAI guides. <\/p>\n\n

Example, tested yesterday with an operations client:<\/p>\n\n

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You’re an operations consultant. Turn your B2B customer onboarding into an SOP that a junior can read in 5 minutes. Format, numbered list with owner, input, output, and time for each step. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The perfect prompt doesn’t exist, but a clear brief does. When you write a prompt, you’re delegating, and if you couldn’t explain the task to a colleague, AI won’t do any better. The quality of the output isn’t in the syntax, it’s in the clarity of the thought that precedes it. <\/p>\n\n

At MAKE PROGRESS\u00ae, we call it clarity before velocity<\/strong> . Without initial clarity, each iteration amplifies confusion instead of reducing it. I saw it yesterday in a session: a founder rewrote the same prompt 14 times in an hour. We stopped everything, defined the brief on paper in 8 minutes, and the fifteenth attempt produced the right output. <\/p>\n\n

2. How to stop repeating the same old things over and over again<\/h2>\n\n

If every conversation with the AI \u200b\u200bstarts from scratch, you’re wasting the best part of the tool. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all have the blueprints<\/strong> ; you can store persistent instructions, reference documents, and memories that persist between sessions. <\/p>\n\n

Learn to use this: a custom instruction<\/em> , a system prompt that the model reads before each of your questions. Set up well, it replaces most of the context you currently repeat by hand. <\/p>\n\n

I see the same mistake in companies with 8 to 800 people but zero processes. Every Monday, the same thing is explained verbally. Every Wednesday, the same mistake is corrected. Every Friday, they vow that next time it will be different, and it never is. The problem isn’t the explanation, it’s the lack of a place to document the decision. <\/p>\n\n

Write once, reuse a hundred times. That’s what a custom instruction does, that’s what an SOP does. Same logic, different objects, same leverage. <\/p>\n\n

3. How to Hire Your Next Fellow Agent<\/h2>\n\n

The technical definition of an AI agent<\/strong> is a system that autonomously executes multi-step workflows, deciding intermediate steps based on an end goal<\/em> . This is the definition used in Anthropic’s paper Building Effective Agents<\/a> . <\/p>\n\n

The more you automate, the more your judgment matters about what you decide not to automate. Human work focuses on where judgment is needed: strategy, architecture, new problems the model has never seen. Everything else falls down. <\/p>\n\n

Two good news hidden in here.<\/p>\n\n

First: if you have clear ideas, you can delegate a number of things you wouldn’t even dream of today, and take back pieces of time you thought were wasted.<\/p>\n\n

Second, you don’t have to shut down your business to get started. You need a list of the processes you’re already running out of habit. Automating is an opportunity to simplify and speed up. <\/p>\n\n

Otherwise, you’ll find yourself more available and equally busy, doing activities with less value than before.<\/p>\n\n

4. How to protect yourself from blue-collar wage inflation<\/h2>\n\n

Counterintuitive prediction but supported by two measurable trends:<\/p>\n\n