The curriculum spine

What are you working on? How much are you responsible for?

Families group related kinds of work. Tracks name the task; levels name the blast radius if it goes wrong.

Workshop selectionFor each AM or PM session, start with an L1 or L2 book and choose the challenge that fits your work.Browse L1 booksBrowse L2 books
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13 mini-books

Showing one responsibility level.

Family 1

Use

Get value from AI in your own work

Use tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly you
Track 01Foundations & judgementT01-L01NEW

From Idea to Working Result: The Four-Quadrant Method

Outcome: A completed ten-row task audit with a reason per rowBy Astra6 min read
Track 02Chat & assistantsT02-L01NEW

Getting good answers from a chatbot

Outcome: Before/after pair showing the first and final prompt with the change that fixed itBy Astra9 min read
Track 03Prompting & contextT03-L01NEW

Give an Agent a Job You Can Check

Outcome: One prompt improved across three named revisions with the effect of eachBy Astra13 min read
Track 09Create mediaT09-L01NEW

Images, Voice And Video For Your Own Work

Outcome: One finished asset with its AI-generation label and the prompt that produced itBy Astra67 min read
Track 15AI in researchT15-L01NEW

AI in your research workflow

Outcome: A disclosure statement checked against the target journal's stated policyBy Astra15 min read
Track 16Choose & Evaluate AI ToolsT16-L01NEW

Choose a Tool for Your Task

Outcome: Compare two suitable tools on your own task, weigh quality against effort, cost and data handling, and keep the option that genuinely helps.By Astra10 min read
Family 2

Build

Make something that runs

Build tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly you
Track 04Your documents & knowledgeT04-L01NEW

Ask Your Files and Check the Evidence

Outcome: Three answers with each citation located in the original documentBy Astra14 min read
Track 05AutomationT05-L01NEW

Your First Automation With n8n

Outcome: A run history showing one successful and one deliberately failed runBy Astra68 min read
Track 06Build appsT06-L01NEW

Build a Small App You Will Use

Outcome: Turn one recurring personal task into a working app by understanding an existing solution, reusing what helps, and improving it through use.By Astra5 min read
Track 08Write codeT08-L01NEW

Make One Useful Code Change

Outcome: Run a small program of your choice, understand the relevant lines, make one useful change with OpenCode, and undo it.By Astra5 min read
Track 10Data & analysisT10-L01NEW

Question a Table Without Losing the Rows

Outcome: Three answers, each verified by a manual recount of the underlying rowsBy Astra13 min read
Family 3

Run

Operate it yourself

Run tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly you
Track 11Run your own AIT11-L01NEW

A model on your own laptop

Outcome: A local model answering with the network disconnectedBy Astra16 min read
Family 4

Govern & spread

Make it safe and make it stick

Govern & spread tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly you
Track 12Security, privacy & governanceT12-L01NEW

Stop Sensitive Data Before It Reaches the Agent

Outcome: Your last five pastes classified, with each red one rewritten to greenBy Astra17 min read

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