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Stop writing 500-word prompts. This 29-word prompt writes better than all of them: "Read my anti-AI writing style file first. It contains every known pattern of AI writing I want to avoid. Apply these as rules to everything you write for me." That's it. But you need to set it up first. Here's how: Step 1. Go to Wikipedia. Step 2. Search "Signs of AI writing." Step 3. Copy the entire page. Step 4. Paste it into a Google Doc. Don't edit. Step 5. Name it "anti-ai-writing." Step 6. Download as .md format. Step 7. This is your "what NOT to sound like" file. Or skip all of that. To download the anti-AI guide: Step 1. Go to how-to-ai.guide. Step 2. Subscribe for free. Don't pay anything. Step 3. Open my welcome email. Step 4. Hit the automatic reply button inside. Step 5. Download my .md files. Ready to upload. Step 6. Upload it to Claude. Prompt: "Read the uploaded file. It contains every known pattern of AI writing I want to avoid. Apply these as rules to everything you write for me. Do NOT start writing yet - ask me clarifying questions first." ✦ Here's why your prompts don't work (red flags): "Don't use jargon." "Don't sound like an AI." "Don't use buzzwords or filler." "Avoid passive voice." "Be conversational, not robotic." These are everywhere. LinkedIn posts. Emails. They sound thorough. The output is still garbage. Your prompt says "don't" 14 times. The model forgets half by sentence three. You're fighting the AI with a wall of "don'ts." It doesn't work at scale. The fix is counterintuitive. Stop telling the AI what to avoid. Give it a file that shows what to avoid. The model reads 1,168 lines of bad patterns, internalizes them, and writes clean. 500-word prompt → still robotic. Small prompt + 1 file → reads as a human wrote it. 1. To get access, go to how-to-ai.guide. 2. The Claude guide at how-to-claude.ai. 3. The Claude cowork guide at claude-co.work.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack