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Rethink one process
Find the back button in a job you do every week, then redesign that one moment and test the change.
A one-page A4 worksheet and copyable prompt for a job you have already picked.
The first part is open below. The download adds: one moment, one honest test.
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What's inside
- Bring your rough outcome, current steps, one past example and the checks that must stay.
- Mark the steps the outcome needs, the steps the tool needs and the checks.
- Design one changed interaction with its input and output.
- Test on a fresh case with the real result held back until afterwards.
Find the back button in one weekly job
You already know what you want. The tool still makes you click, search and copy to get there. This sheet helps you find that moment in a job you have already picked.
Bring four things: a rough outcome in your own words, the current steps, one past example with private details removed, and the constraints and checks that must stay. You can work with a pen or use the copyable prompt with your AI assistant.
It accompanies This? No, two back., where Matt rebuilds presenting around what he says. The optional helper skill walks through the same method with your own example.
Still to come, in the download
- One moment, one honest test
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Who's behind it
Matt Hertel. An engineer who has also run the company. Built and sold apps solo. Fractional CTO in startups. Every Sunday, one job start to finish, in No Manual Yet.
Every Sunday, one job start to finish. Read No Manual Yet
It goes with this issue
More to take
- Why saying "use more AI" doesn't work: the survey, the prompt and what to do next
Next to the doom-and-gloom headlines, "use more AI" sounds like adopt or die. This guide goes with No Manual Yet Issue 11. It gives you an 8-question anonymous survey that asks your team whether they see you leading by example, a prompt that builds it for your own team, and practical pages on what to do with each pattern of answers.
- Outbound at scale: the build guide
Turn one researched prospect into a repeatable job, then carry it through a sheet and a laptop app.
- Outbound at scale: the starter kit
Start with reusable instructions and a blank prospect sheet instead of writing the whole setup yourself.
- Rethink one process: the helper skill
Work through one chosen process with an AI assistant that asks for the missing facts before it proposes a change.