From the Tip Season ezine: The three-part structure of a high-value prompt Every prompt that produces a usable, sellable result has three components working together. The first is context. You tell the AI who it is, what it knows, and who it's talking to. "You are a senior email copywriter with 10 years of experience writing for SaaS companies. Your audience is small business owners who are not technical." That one sentence changes everything about the output. The second is the task. Be specific about exactly what you want. Not "write an email" but "write a 300-word promotional email for a $97 online course on Instagram growth, with a subject line, three benefit bullets, and a clear call to action." Specificity is the skill. The third is constraints. Tell the AI what to avoid. No jargon. No bullet points. No generic openers. Under 400 words. These guardrails are what separate professional-grade prompts from amateur ones. Put all three together and your output quality jumps dramatically. That's the foundation.

A lot has shipped lately. We’ve rolled out updates across models, Codex, and APIs, and developers are already turning these releases into new products, games, workflows, and tools. But if we had to pick the thing we’re most excited about right now ….. DevDay 2026 is officially on the calendar! Save the date and enter our contest for a chance to win a ticket.To get live answers to your lingering product questions in the meantime, join our upcoming online Build Hours: - GPT-Realtime-2: May 12, 10am PT  - Agents SDK: May 28, 10am PT 

From Karon Thakston. Tired of Google Docs That Look... Ordinary? Google Docs are pretty limited when it comes to graphic design. While you can't typically create graphics inside of Google Docs, you can absolutely use what you've created in Canva, Picmonkey, Adobe or elsewhere. It just takes a few steps to jazz up your Google Docs with photos, images, covers, and more. I made a cheat sheet for you that you can download here. Direct download, no email req'd

Oh goodness, I have to laugh! I'm not sure if the universe is giving me signs to stop or what, yes another bout in the hospital, my brother found me on my bedroom floor after 3 days unconscious. 100% totally clear tox screen, hospital again, then back surgery, then a car accident (I wasn't driving) and dad had a heart attack..........I can't make this stuff up! Maybe instead of the book "The perils of Pauline" it should just be: 1) Laura’s Perils, Purpose, and Power, OR 2) The Trials and Triumphs of Laura OR 3) Laura’s Life Unscripted OR 4) Laura’s Story: Still Standing...Quick vote? Somewhere there has to be some money made in this rodeo of Life!!!

This is from Amy Harrop's Substack. Brilliant and easy to implement as always😺😻 According to research published in the International Journal of Behavioral Science, about 70% of people experience these “impostor feelings” at some point in their lives. And writers seem particularly vulnerable to it. K.M. Weiland, who’s sold over half a million books and been published in seven languages, openly admits she faces imposter syndrome every single day. Every. Single. Day. If someone with her track record still battles this, maybe the feeling itself isn’t the problem. Maybe we’ve just been thinking about “expertise” the wrong way. Here’s what nobody tells you when you’re starting out: https://succeedwithcontent.substack.com/p/70-of-people-feel-like-frauds-heres