Black Tech Green Money The Future of AI in Business: Insights from Cliff Worley
Mar 10, 2026
Cliff Worley, AI expert and former senior director at Kapor Capital, shares practical views on AI's risks and rewards. He explains treating AI like an intern, comparing models, and building reusable prompts. Topics include scaling solo founders with AI, tool selection, productivity hacks, and emerging areas like robotics and automation.
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Give AI Your Goals Daily And Let It Prioritize
- Use AI as a daily assistant: give it goals, tasks, and status updates so it can prioritize your week and advise schedule changes.
- Cliff rambled a five-minute voice memo in ChatGPT to produce a prioritized day-by-day plan for the week.
Tell AI To Challenge You And Admit When It Doesn't Know
- Configure custom instructions so AI challenges you and admits uncertainty instead of always agreeing.
- Cliff recommends setting the model to 'challenge me' or 'say you don't know' in custom instructions.
Use NotebookLM To Turn Reading Into Multimedia
- Use NotebookLM to convert long articles into audio, video, slides, or mind maps and learn faster.
- Cliff uses Google's NotebookLM to turn his newsletter and complex AI articles into short videos and infographics for quick understanding.