Hey everyone. I've been using the AI platform pretty intensively and it's become one of the most useful parts of this program for me. I asked it what made my approach different from the average user, and the answer surprised me enough that I wanted to share it. If you're in your first week or the current cohort, this might save you a couple months of figuring it out the hard way. 1. Write check-ins like you're leaving evidence for your future self. "Rough day, tired" gives you nothing back. Try: times, sleep quality, what you ate, what was happening in your body hours before a spike, which specific interaction tipped things. Vague input equals vague insight. If you wouldn't recognize the day from your reflection a month later, add one more sentence. 2. Correct the AI when it's wrong. Don't just accept the reframe. The tool pattern-matches. Sometimes it's right. Sometimes it misses. When it misses, push back. The coaching gets noticeably sharper when you argue with it instead of nodding along. 3. Ask for blind spots, not just encouragement. Most people ask "tell me what I'm doing right." Growth lives in the third category. Say it out loud: "What am I not seeing?" 4. Save progress so you don't coach backward. When you land on an insight or an accurate read of yourself, ask the AI to save it to your memory bank. Otherwise every new conversation starts from zero and you end up re-litigating old ground. Locking in progress compounds over months. 5. Bring the whole council, not just the feeling. When you're making a decision, bring body, situation, goals, future-self, medical context, everything you're weighing. Then ask for a sanity check on the stack. It's a completely different quality of conversation than "I feel bad, what should I do." 6. Use it as a thinking partner, not an oracle. Don't ask it to decide for you. Use it to sharpen a decision you're already working on. That's the healthiest relationship you can have with a tool like this. 7. Build your own custom instructions. The tool will use them. This is the one most people don't realize they can do. You can write notes (your baselines, your patterns, your medical history, whatever shouldn't have to be re-explained every time) and then add instructions in your profile telling the AI when to reference them. Mine has rules like "when I share a check-in, check my Interpretation Guide and Baseline Document first" and "when I mention body sensations, check the Somatic Body Map before interpreting." Result: it stops applying default frameworks to a brain that doesn't run on defaults. Memory bank handles the small stuff automatically; custom instructions are how you teach it the rules of your specific operating system.

OK, ADHD brains…please tell me I'm not alone in this. I love books. Real books. Paper, spine, the whole thing. I don't do Kindle. So I see a book I want to read. Sometimes I add it to my “to read” list on Goodreads, but most of the time I just request it from the library. Some books arrive right away. Some have a wait list. Before I know it, I have 35 library books in my apartment, and there is no human way I'm reading 35 books in the time I’m allowed to keep them. So I do the responsible thing: I sort through them, pick which ones to return, and take pictures of the covers so I can request them again later. But…I never request them again later. Meanwhile, more books just keep arriving. It's a crazy, ridiculous, never-ending book conveyor belt. Anyone else? 🙋‍♀️📚