Prompt Academy · Issue #001 · August 2026

Ask it twice

One thing worth doing

The most dangerous AI answer is the confident one. Here's the two-minute habit that catches it: ask the same important question in two fresh chats and compare the answers. Two different confident answers means at least one is made up. The same answer twice, with sources you can click? Now you're standing on something.

It works because AI writes by predicting what looks right, and it has no built-in step that asks whether it is right. Full guide: why AI makes things up.

What shipped

The playbook library got a real home: the Library.

Four playbooks, each free, each with a finished example so you can see the payoff before downloading anything: research with real sources, content repurposing without invented facts, meeting notes turned into a sendable follow-up, and a knowledge base your future self can actually use.

Worth knowing

Obsidian (free): where your playbooks live once installed. Plain-text notes on your own computer, no account required. If an AI is going to keep notes for you, keep them somewhere you own.

That's it

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