Hello,

Welcome (back) to my weekly note on using AI to work smarter, advance your career, and have a ton of fun.

If you're new, here's what to expect each week:

• How-tos on using AI tools (only the ones I use myself)
• Prompts & hacks you probably haven't tried yet
• Fun AI stuff you'll want to check out
• Deep-ish thoughts on how AI is changing the world of work

Let's get into it.

GPT-5 prompting learnings + tips

I’ve been experimenting with GPT-5 and it's definitely a different world of prompting than before. Here are a few tips:

• Give longer, more detailed prompts. Pre-GPT5, short prompts worked. Now, the more detail the better. I like to ask it to give me the full prompt.
  • Example: "I want to create a how-to guide for LinkedIn content agent building based on the recording from my live session and other stuff I've done. What's a good prompt to get you to create a really great guide?"
• Literally tell it to “think harder.” (Write those two words in your prompt). This has been surprisingly effective.
• I'm loving its Next Steps. One thing that's been consistently excellent is the Next Steps GPT-5 recommends at the bottom of its response. I find myself often saying "yes" to those.
• It’s amazing with tools (“connectors”). I needed an updated list of prior Crew coaches. The info lived across a few old Google Sheets + emails. I asked GPT-5 for an updated list, and it pulled the Sheets + recent emails together into one clean list I could copy into my outreach email. Here are my exact prompts:
  • First ask: "I'm looking for a full list of all former Crew coaches. These are people I would have emailed as a group several times in 2024 and a few times in early 2025. Are you able to find that list for me from my Gmail?."
  • Follow up: "Great start. There should also be a longer list of coaches, maybe in my Google Drive, including coaches who had applied to Crew but didn't end up coaching with us. See that anywhere?"
  • Note: You'll need to connect your ChatGPT to your email and G-drive (or other file storage system). You can do this in Settings, Connectors.

Recap: build a LinkedIn content agent with me

Last week’s live session focused on LinkedIn content creation (that thing we all hate but know we need to do). We covered how to:

• Automate your LinkedIn content pipeline
• Use AI agents to research, write, and schedule posts
• Build workflows that still keep your authentic voice

If you missed it, I’m running it again on Aug 29 (details below).

AI tip of the week: trivia games on demand

A fun use case: I was with my extended family the other day, waiting for food at a restaurant. We were hangry and in need of a distraction, so I asked ChatGPT for a trivia game. It came back with a list of questions. I skimmed them, decided they were too easy, told it to make them harder, and ended up with a perfect game that killed the hungry wait time.
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My lazy prompt: "Give me a trivia game for my family while we wait for food."

Try it next time you need a quick group activity. It works great across generations.

My deep thoughts this week

Lots of deep thoughts but no new essays this week--I've been on vacation.

Upcoming events

Here’s what’s coming up. All free, all live build-with-me sessions:

• Vibe code a personal website with me → Aug 22 & Sep 4
• Build a LinkedIn content agent with me → Aug 29

Sign up here: https://molliemueller.com/events​​

Thanks for reading. I’d love to hear:

• What new prompting tricks have you tried with GPT-5?
• Any fun AI hacks you’ve used outside of work?
• What should I cover next week?

I read every reply.

See you next week,

Mollie