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Repeating the same prompt is why your tokens run out in 2 hours. Skills eliminate that. Build a Skill once in 5 minutes and Claude loads it automatically every time that task comes up. Voice, audience, format, and rules are already loaded before you type a word. Instead of re-explaining context every conversation, Skills hold everything permanently and Claude starts working immediately. These 15 cover writing, research, planning, data cleanup, and daily workflow. Build them once and they run forever.

Half of what makes Claude useful has nothing to do with prompting. The platform itself ships features faster than anyone can keep up with, and these six are the ones worth knowing about. 1. Connectors link Claude to Gmail, Drive, Notion, and Slack so you stop copy-pasting between apps for every task. 2. Artifacts turn Claude into a workspace where it builds trackers, calculators, and interactive tools you can download and use immediately. 3. Custom Styles let you set your writing voice once in Settings, and Claude writes like you from that point forward without you prompting it every time. 4. The Canva connector lets you upload previous designs as references, and Claude builds new editable Canva templates that match your visual style. 5. The Thinking Effort Dial controls how hard Claude reasons per task, so you save tokens on simple work and go deep when you need to. 6. Claude in Chrome turns your browser into an automation tool that navigates websites, clicks buttons, fills forms, and runs workflows across your tabs while you do something else. These are already built into your paid plan. You just have to turn them on.

Harvard is offering free AI courses right now. These go deep into how generative AI works, how to prompt it properly, and how to build systems around it. 1. Introduction to Generative AI - Harvard Kennedy School How AI models are trained, what they can do, and where they break down. → https://lnkd.in/eQgUMNzt 2. Prompt Engineering - Harvard Kennedy School How to write prompts that get consistent results instead of generic outputs. → https://lnkd.in/efSxirhP 3. Beyond Chatbots: System Prompts & RAG - Harvard Kennedy School How production-level AI systems stay accurate using retrieval pipelines and system design. → https://lnkd.in/eXXzAm_u 4. Generative AI in Teaching & Learning - Harvard Playlist How AI is being used in education with faculty-led discussions on literacy and ethics. → https://lnkd.in/eCypEV8y 5. Teaching with AI in the Classroom - Harvard Business Publishing How to redesign assessments and build human-AI collaboration for capability building. → https://lnkd.in/eMMTTdhg 6. The Basics of Generative AI - Harvard Kennedy School How AI fits into strategy, regulation, risk, and responsible implementation. → https://lnkd.in/eYHTd-yf Start with 1 and 2 if you want the fundamentals.  Start with 3 if you have the basics down and want to understand how real AI systems are built.

Access to Claude Fable 5 on paid plans has been extended till July 12th. After that, it moves to usage credits at $10/$50 per million tokens. Fable 5 sits in Anthropic's new Mythos class, a tier above Opus. It leads knowledge work benchmarks and handles complex reasoning that used to require a team of analysts. You have a few more days with the most powerful Claude model at no extra cost. Here are 5 things worth doing before the window closes: 1. Feed it your biggest mess. If you have years of scattered files, notes, and documents, give them all to Fable in one session. It handles massive context better than any other model and can organize everything you throw at it. 2. Build systems that outlast Fable access. Create reusable project instructions, templates, and workflows inside Claude Projects. When you drop back to Opus or Sonnet, those systems keep running without Fable. 3. Have Fable audit how you use Claude. Ask it to review your current projects, instructions, and workflows. It tells you what's inefficient and what needs fixing so every future session runs smoother. 4. Have Fable teach you how it thinks. Ask it to walk through its reasoning step by step and save that breakdown. Use it to write better prompts for Opus and Sonnet going forward. 5. Have Fable stress-test your ideas. Give it your business plan, strategy, or pitch and ask it to find every hole and blind spot. Its reasoning is deep enough to challenge your thinking at a level other models can't. The window closes July 12th. Use it while it's included.

Your next deal is already looking at your LinkedIn profile. The question is whether it's convincing them or losing them. When someone sees your post, clicks your profile, reads your headline, scrolls your featured section, and then DMs you, that entire path happens because your brand did the work before you said a word. Active personal brands on LinkedIn receive 47% more inbound than inactive ones. That gap comes down to whether your niche, content, and profile are aligned. Your niche decides everything. If someone visits your profile and can't describe what you do in one sentence, nothing else matters. Your content pillars keep you consistent so the algorithm learns who your posts are for. When your profile, content, and engagement all say the same thing about you, people remember you.