Hello!

Welcome back to my weekly note on using AI to work smarter, earn more, and stay ahead of the curve. Here’s what to expect each week:

• How-tos on the AI tools I actually use
• Prompts and clever shortcuts
• Fun things worth a look
• My thoughts and predictions for the Future of Work

Let's dive in.

Prompt of the Week

One of my favorite ways to use ChatGPT is for financial planning. It can turn your budget and dream goals into a roadmap.

Try this:

Given the details below, help me understand how much money my partner and I need to earn (and save) to achieve our dream life in [10] years.

• Regular household expenses (I took a screenshot of our budget spreadsheet and pasted it into ChatGPT).
• Dream life: a list of “dream life” expenses, like a vacation house, with rough cost estimates. We do this activity once a year as a couple.
• Current income for both of us and estimates of growth.
• Other life details like # of kids/dependents, location, etc.

Please make reasonable assumptions for tax rates, savings growth, inflation, etc.

Disclaimer: This will be directionally accurate and needs refining to turn into a plausible roadmap. Don't make any big life decisions based on the first round of results!

Work Hack I Recommend

Spend 5 minutes prepping with ChatGPT before every meeting. You will have more productive meetings and greater impact.

My simple prep process:

• Start with this prompt: "Help me prep for my upcoming meeting with [name]. Here's the context: [copy/paste emails or screenshot how this meeting got set up]. My goals for this meeting are: [totally fine to say you don't know yet]"
  Stop there if you're short on time. You'll get solid advice from just that.
• Go deeper (when it matters): "Research [name] and help me predict what they’ll be interested in. Strategize how to use these 30 minutes to build towards my goal of ___.”
  This is where it gets interesting. ChatGPT will often surface things about their background, recent projects, or company priorities that I missed, and help me better shape the conversation towards shared goals.
• Fill knowledge gaps: If they work in an industry I don't know well, I'll say: "Explain [their company/role/industry] to me like I'm smart but new to this space."

I included a quick example in this demo video.

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Deep-ish Thoughts

One of my big predictions for the future of work is the rise of rampant entrepreneurship. AI has already removed the technical barrier — anyone can now spin up a site, product, or agent without knowing how to code. Now we’re watching the growth barrier fall too. Lovable, my favorite vibe-coding platform, just made its customers' business growth its north star metric. That’s a rare move, and it signals a shift toward tools that don’t just let you create, but actually help you build traction.

​Read the post here -> The Growth Barrier Falls: How Lovable's Metric Shift Unlocks the Next Phase of Rampant Entrepreneurship

Upcoming events

Here’s what’s coming up:

• Vibe code a personal website with me → Sep 24 & Oct 23
• Turn ChatGPT into your elite executive coach → Oct 15
• Build a LinkedIn content agent with me → Oct 16

Learn more and sign up here: https://molliemueller.com/events​​

✨ Bonus: I’m putting together a new course on using AI to run a small business. Early bird pricing is live now, along with some extra bonuses → Check it out here.

Just for Fun

I've been trying out Google's new image editor tool called Nano Banana. Here are a few recent explorations for your enjoyment.

First up: My goldendoodle is a notorious food thief. Impossible to capture on camera, I used Nano Banana to re-create her recent heists.

Watch Me AI

Naughty goldendoodle!

♬ original sound - Watch Me AI

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It's planting season here in the PNW and I needed inspiration for a boring patch of dirt. Nano Banana delivered an excellent mockup.

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Longer video with more non-work-related use cases for Nano Banana, plus instructions, here -> YouTube

Thanks for reading.

I’d love to hear: Have you been using Nano Banana yet? Any great use cases or chuckle-worthy memes? I read every reply.

See you next week,
Mollie

Mollie Amkraut Mueller ​molliemueller.com​ ​​

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