Practical AI For Life

Category: Work & Writing

  • How to Use AI to Write a Speech or Toast

    You’ve been asked to say something. At a wedding. A retirement. A funeral. A milestone birthday. A leaving do. You said yes — because you care about the person. Now the date is getting closer and the blank page is getting louder. Most people aren’t afraid of speaking. They’re afraid of getting it wrong — Read more

  • How to Use AI Before Resigning From Your Job

    You’ve been thinking about it for a while. Maybe a long while. And now the decision feels close. You’re ready to leave. Or you think you are. But somewhere underneath the certainty — or the relief, or the excitement — there’s a quieter question: have I thought this through properly? Resigning from a job is Read more

  • How to Use AI Before a Salary Negotiation

    You’ve been offered the job. Or your review is coming up. Or you’ve taken on more — and nothing has changed. You know you should say something. You’re just not sure what to ask for, what number to say, or how to start the conversation. So you stay quiet. Or you say something vague. Or Read more

  • How to Use AI to Improve Your Writing

    Writing isn’t the hard part You know what you want to say. The problem is getting it onto the page in a way that sounds clear, confident, and like you. You write something. It sounds stiff. Or too casual. Or longer than it needs to be. You rewrite it and it’s still not quite right. Read more

  • How to Make AI Sound Like You (And Not Like a Robot)

    You used AI to write something. It came out polished. Professional. Grammatically correct. And completely unlike you. Anyone who knows you would spot it immediately. The tone is too formal. The sentences too long. It just doesn’t sound right. This is one of the most common problems with AI. The fix is straightforward. What this Read more

  • How to Use AI When You’re Drowning in Messages

    Your phone has 47 unread messages. Three of them probably need a real response. The rest are noise. But you don’t know which is which until you read them all — and you haven’t had the energy to do that since Tuesday. Your inbox has emails from last week you keep meaning to reply to. Read more

  • How to Use AI to Understand Your Payslip or Pay Stub

    Most people glance at the bottom line and move on. The total looks about right. The money arrives. That’s enough. Until it isn’t. A number looks off. A deduction you don’t recognise. A change you weren’t expecting. Or you realise you’ve never actually understood what all those lines mean. This is where AI helps. What Read more

  • 5 Things AI Is Surprisingly Good At at Work

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  • How to Use AI to Prepare for a Job Interview

    The interview is in a few days. Maybe less. You know you should prepare. You’ve told yourself you’ll prepare. And somehow you keep putting it off — because you’re not quite sure where to start. Or you’ve prepared the way most people prepare. You’ve read the job description again. Thought about your experience. Maybe skimmed Read more

  • How to Use AI to Write a CV or Resume

    Most people hate writing their resume. Not because they don’t have anything to say — but because turning what they’ve done into something that works on a page is harder than it should be. You know your experience. You know what you’re good at. But when you try to write it down, it either sounds Read more