The programWeek 1 · The Brain Dump · 10 min

If You Only Have Your Phone — or No Chatbot At All

None of this should require a chatbot you trust, a device you own, or moving words between five windows on a screen the size of a card.

Why this works

Most of this program quietly assumes you can copy a list from one app and paste it into another. If that is not true for you — because the phone is small, the tablet is shared, or you would rather not hand your family's business to a chatbot — there is a way through. Every exercise in these four weeks works with a pen and a piece of paper. The tool is a shortcut, never a requirement, and the paper version costs nothing.

Do this

  1. 1If you would rather not use a chatbot at all, do the paper version: write the list by hand, write the four headings yourself, and sort it with a pen. That is the whole exercise.
  2. 2If you are using a tool, use the microphone button, not the keyboard. Most of them have one.
  3. 3Say your list out loud the way you would say it to a friend. Messy is fine. The tool writes it down.
  4. 4Then say the prompt out loud straight after it. You never have to switch apps or copy anything.
  5. 5If your tool can read answers back, turn that on. You can listen instead of reading.

Your prompt

Say this out loud instead of typing it: [whatever you would have pasted]. Then say: now sort what I just told you into what only I can do, what someone else could do, and what I can delete. Read your answer back to me.

Swap the brackets for your own details, then paste it into any AI tool.

Today's action

Do one whole lesson without typing a single character — by voice, or on paper.

You're done when: You know you can do this with a pen, a phone, or nothing at all.