How to Structure an Effective Prompt

The four elements every prompt needs, and why most are missing at least two.

Jun 12 • Francis Tan

Why Telling AI to Be Shakespeare-Ogilvy Is Making Your Prompts Worse

The role prompt was a useful shorthand. It also has its limits.

Jun 5 • Francis Tan

May 2026

The Deep Research Trap

Why AI sometimes sounds like a junior consultant trying too hard

May 22 • Francis Tan

How to Activate Claude’s "Sun Tzu" Mode

What everyone gets wrong about secret prompts.

May 20 • Francis Tan

Asking AI to Think with You

Tapping into AI’s reasoning is more powerful than just asking it to write

May 15 • Francis Tan

This Week’s Institutional Positioning Report — Free Download

The full PDF from the CoT Accumulation System.

May 9 • Francis Tan

AI didn’t just test my trading idea. It built a forex system from scratch in minutes.

This series follows my use of Claude to build real analytical systems from public data.

May 8 • Francis Tan

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April 2026

Claude’s Secret Cheat Codes Don’t Exist.

But here's what actually works

Apr 23 • Francis Tan

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January 2026

The Verification Loop

How to force AI (and myself) to stop making things up

Jan 8 • Francis Tan

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December 2025

Surviving the Next 6 Months

(and the Long Game)

Dec 29, 2025 • Francis Tan

Why Companies May Be Destroying Their Talent Pipeline

Dec 28, 2025 • Francis Tan

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Everyone Is Now an Entrepreneur

Dec 27, 2025 • Francis Tan

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