Local, in-person courses where you bring your own device (laptop, tablet, or phone; whatever you have) and walk out with something real. Taught by someone who used AI to win a complicated benefits claim, see clearly through a hard relationship, parent his son through tough moments, and build a working multiplayer game in two weeks. Methodology, not magic.
Small groups, bring your own device (laptop, tablet, or phone), finish with something you made yourself. Times are local.
Use AI to think through real situations: an insurance or benefits claim, a confusing relationship pattern, a parenting puzzle, a big decision. The discipline that keeps your own judgment alive while using a tool designed to please you. Bring something you're actually wrestling with.
Set up Claude, learn how to talk to it, and build a personal helper that drafts emails, summarises documents, and answers questions about your own files.
Go from a blank page to a working website you can show off, using Claude as your pair-programmer. No coding background needed.
Pick a real task you do every week and build an AI workflow that handles it. Email triage, meeting notes, content drafts; your call.
Bring your own spreadsheets, PDFs, or notes. Leave with an AI tool that searches, summarises, and answers questions across all of them.
Move past chatting to agents that take actions: book things, send messages, manage files. Real agentic workflows on your own device.
I come to your office or community space and run a tailored session for your team or group. Drop me a note; happy to design something around your goals.
I've been a tech guy my whole life. Figured out how to configure memory in DOS at age ten so I could play games (my parents thought I was breaking the computer; I knew it was them noobs messing it up). Ran a door-to-door computer-help business in high school. Worked the AC Nielsen helpdesk one summer. Won a sumo robot competition. Got 98% in OAC Computer Science. But here's the thing: I never let computers become my identity. I used them as tools, learned what I needed when I needed it, and kept the rest of my life intact. That's the same relationship I want people to have with AI.
I've also used AI to win a complicated benefits claim I almost lost, see clearly through a difficult relationship, parent my son through hard moments, and build a working multiplayer game (lss.fractalreality.ca) in two weeks. I came out the other side with my center intact and more energy than I started with.
Most AI teachers are either software people who haven't been through hard things, or life coaches who don't really understand the tools. I'm both. The discipline I teach: AI as a lathe, not a crutch; you stay the one doing the work.
Classes are small on purpose; small enough that I can sit next to you when you're stuck, big enough that you meet other people in the area doing the same. We don't read slides. We build. And we talk about what it actually feels like to use AI well.
If you've ever felt that AI is moving too fast, that the online tutorials aren't quite for you, or that you don't want to lose yourself in the process, this is the room you want to be in.
Tell me which course you're interested in and I'll get back to you with dates and the venue.