Cultural operator. Multihyphenate artist & ecosystem builder. Founder building living systems where art, wellness, culture & tech converge. PV ↔︎ ATX.
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Michelle Young retweeted
ANTHROPIC JUST PROVED MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PROMPT CLAUDE.
Their applied AI team dropped a 24 minute free workshop.
Not a creator who reverse engineered it.
Not a Reddit thread.
ANTHROPIC.
The people who wrote the weights.
And what they showed is uncomfortable.
There are 6 elements to a properly structured Claude prompt.
Most people are using 1.
Maybe 2.
That is not a skill issue.
That is an information issue.
And it has been quietly costing you every single day.
The outputs that felt slightly off.
The responses you had to rewrite 4 times.
The prompts that worked once and never again.
All of it traces back to the same 6 missing elements.
The people who watch this 24 minute workshop tonight will understand something about Claude that most daily users still do not know exists.
The people who skip it will keep getting 30% of what the tool is actually capable of and wonder why the results never quite land.
I watched it twice.
Then I built a Claude Skill that applies all 6 elements to every prompt automatically.
No more thinking about structure.
No more guessing what Claude needs.
The framework runs in the background every single time.
Full breakdown and skill setup is below.
Bookmark this now.
Watch the workshop first.
Then read the guide.
This is the one that compounds.
Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact prompt architecture, Claude skills, and systems I use to get outputs most people do not believe came from one person working alone.
Michelle Young retweeted
Claude just dropped 13 FREE AI courses (with certificates).
No $500 course needed.
No “guru” required.
Just real skills — straight from Anthropic.
Here’s the full list:
👇
1. Claude 101
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2. AI Fluency: Frameworks & Foundations
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3. Introduction to Agent Skills
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4. Building with the Claude API
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5. Claude Code in Action
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6. Introduction to Model Context Protocol
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7. MCP: Advanced Topics
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8. AI Fluency for Students
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9. AI Fluency for Educators
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10. Teaching AI Fluency
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11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits
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12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock
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13. Claude with Google Vertex AI
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If you go through even HALF of these…
You’ll be ahead of 95% of people using AI.
Most people won’t.
Because they’re still:
• Watching random YouTube videos
• Buying overpriced courses
• “Learning AI” without actually building
Don’t be that person.
Do this instead:
1. Save this post (you’ll come back to it)
2. Pick 1 course → start today
3. Share it with someone who needs this
Free. Practical. No excuses.
Michelle Young retweeted
Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.
Michelle Young retweeted
Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.
Almost nobody understood what he said.
Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”
Not tech startups.
The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.
The businesses that actually run the physical economy.
They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.
Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”
Software is dead.
The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.
AI ends the contract.
The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.
But customized by whom.
The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.
Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”
That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.
Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.
Let them fight.
Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.
Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.
It collects where the brain meets the business.
Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.
Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.
Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.
Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.
That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.
You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.
The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.
33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.
Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.
Michelle Young retweeted
The IRL connection economy is a $400B+ market.
And companies are racing to own it.
In the last 6 months, $800M+ in capital was deployed on "IRL" bets.
@Tinder invested $60M into a new Events feature for connecting matches in-person. They're pivoting to IRL and offering experiences such as speakeasies, raves, and pottery classes.
@222place: raised a $10.1M Series A to curate blind social experiences for Gen Z. Personality-matched groups sent to hyperlocal nightlife events.
@JagermeisterUSA launched BestNightsVC - the only venture fund in the world dedicated solely to nightlife and IRL connection. 16 portfolio companies across 4 continents.
@timeleft: dinner with 5 strangers, every Wednesday. €18M ARR. 6,500 dinners/week across 200+ cities.
Dion: members-only social app where the first move is buying someone a real drink, redeemed IRL. 10K members, 30K+ on the waitlist founded by @revekkapal.
Pie: Bonobos founder @dunn built an IRL friendship app. $24M raised. 130K+ MAU.
@weroad_official: group trips for 20-30 year olds who don't know each other beforehand. $150M valuation.
Matchbox: is an algorithm-powered matching platform for IRL events and has powered over 100,000 connections. founded by @liamjmcgregor (prev @MarriagePact)
New dating apps like Known @Celesteamadon, Cerca @MylesCerca, and Ditto @AllenWangzian are aiming to improve connection amongst young people.
Billion-dollar companies are paying $$$ for community and events leads:
- @AnthropicAI: Marketing Events Manager ($255k)
- @tryramp: Community Manager ($223k)
- @tryramp: Events & Culture Manager ($181k)
- @duolingo: Senior Community Manager ($193k)
- @NotionHQ: Community Programs Lead
Everyone knows the more time we spend online, the more valuable real-life connection becomes.
The question isn't whether IRL wins.
It's who facilitates it best.
Michelle Young retweeted
I have said it multiple times, and I'll say it again.
Founders who win are extremely low inhibition people.
They don't ask why, they ask why not.
They mail recklessly, they linkedin connect and msg recklessly, they run ads, build random things, mail, message, for what is the worst that can happen, someone will NOT reply. Isn't that happening already before you first mail/msg.
I constantly watch great tech builders/ great teams/ great companies falling short, because of inhibition.
In fact, in my personal startup sprint, everything was running hunky dory for year 0 to 3, because I was/ am generally 0 inhibition person, and by year 4, I had gone down in a self doubt spiral, this is too much, should message this in this way, this email is too straightforward lemme work with this, uhh they didn't respond to my mail so maybe they don't want to talk to me, lol, you are salesgirl Abi, your job is to message, their job is to not respond, then your job is to alter craft edit your message so many times till it lands and the person responds, in fact part of your job is to automate that entire process so you are just watching/ observing/ fine tuning the process and letting people respond.
All sales all over the world is that. From ads to twitter posts to linkedin/ instagram, beautiful shop fronts/ decor/ art/ web design/ case studies everything is to capture the attention of ICP, to say hi, ssup, watcha doin, and then try sell, try sell an idea, a philosophy, an ideology, a product, a service, a company, whatever
And an ounce of inhibition in this entire process is #defeat. Sales is a weird commitment to be okay with making fool of yourself. And, I kinda feel its a personality, I have been 0 inhibition since I was 5, i was jumping from different heights to try see at what height do I get how much hurt, talking about god forgetting to put the inhibition chip in brain, ohh that whole experiment of jumping from different heights to see at what height do I get how much hurt gave me two fractures, but very interesting stories/ perspectives/ knowledge on techniques to land safely, so 🤘
Michelle Young retweeted
As an interviewer I can tell you that the most impactful thing you can offer another a person is attention that feels like discovery. To be looked at as though you are still revealing, still unfolding, still capable of surprise. Most people never get the chance to sit across someone who gives them this.
You can see their eyes light up as you manufacture this experience for them.
This is what people are starving for after years of being known only as their patterns, their roles, their predictable selves.
Michelle Young retweeted
We need to stop confusing food processing with junk food manufacturing
Humans have processed food for thousands of years:
• Grinding
• Fermenting
• Salting
• Drying
• Cooking
Processing itself isn’t the problem
The problem is refined energy added to food
Michelle Young retweeted
The ultimate list of fundraising resources for founders:
1. 27 Most Promising AI Startup Pitch Decks Backed by Top Investors in 2025: productmarketfit.tech/p/27-m…
2. How to Get Into YC: The Full Application Pack: productmarketfit.tech/p/how-…
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4. 🔥 70 Pitch Decks That Raised Over $1 Billion in 2024 📈💰(FIGMA FILE):
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5. The ultimate 10 Excel Sheets: productmarketfit.tech/p/the-…
6. The Ultimate Investor List of Lists:
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7. 💰The Family Office List:
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7. 💰The Angel Investor List:
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8. The Khosla Ventures Fundraising Pack 🚀:
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9. The AI Unicorn Angel List: Angel Investors from Lovable, Cursor, Mercor, Polymarket, Synthesia & ElevenLabs:
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10. Fyxer Fundraising Playbook: Series A to B in months + Profound's Series A Pitch Deck:
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Michelle Young retweeted
This is fire GTM. Do it
met a guy last week making $43,000/month sending cold emails to people who left 1-star reviews for his competitors
not joking
he scrapes trustpilot and g2 for every 1-star review in his niche
finds the persons linkedin
pulls their email
sends them one message:
"saw your review of [competitor]. we built [product] specifically because of complaints like yours. want to see it?"
reply rate: 11.4%
for context the average cold email reply rate is 0.3%
his is 38x higher
because rather than just emailing strangers, hes emailing people who are already pissed off and actively looking for an alternative
they JUST took time out of their day to write a paragraph about how much they hate the thing you replace
theyre literally the hottest lead on planet earth
and theyre free public information sitting on review sites
he showed me his process:
step 1: filter trustpilot for 1-star and 2-star reviews of top 3 competitors posted in last 90 days
step 2: copy the reviewers name into linkedin sales nav
step 3: pull email with apollo or instantly
step 4: send the email within 72 hours of them posting the review while theyre still mad
step 5: appointment setter calls every positive reply within 5 minutes
close rate on these calls: 41%
because the entire sales conversation is "what did they fuck up" and "heres how we do it differently"
literally no convincing or educating needed
no overcoming objections about whether they need the category
they already bought it once
they already know they need it
they just need it from someone who doesnt suck
last month he scraped 290 negative reviews
found emails for 203 of them
got 23 positive replies
booked 19 calls
closed 8 deals at $4,200 average contract value
$33,600 in revenue from reading complaints
the craziest part
three of his customers told him they were ABOUT to switch to a different competitor before he reached out
he intercepted them mid-churn
one guy said "i literally had the contract open in another tab when your email came in"
timing is everything
most people are cold emailing prospects who dont even know they have a problem yet
this guy is emailing people who just spent 20 minutes writing a essay about their problem on the internet
every 1-star review is someone announcing "i have budget, i have pain, and im shopping right now"
your competitors are generating your lead list for you
theyre spending $50K on ads to acquire a customer
that customer hates them
writes a review
and you email them for free and close them in one call
right now theres probably 200 people who reviewed your competitor in the last 60 days
theyre all reachable
theyre all in market
and theyre all ignored because everyone thinks cold email means emailing cold people
these people are on fire
go put it out
p.s. if you want us to setup a cold email system that books you 10-30 calls per month - DM me "COLD"
(you ONLY pay for qualified calls actually booked onto your calendar)
Michelle Young retweeted
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Michelle Young retweeted
Addiction is a coping mechanism and a way we attempt to soothe our nervous system.
Here's a compassionate (and honest) way to think about addiction:
