The Meatbag Method · A free video series from Meatbag Made
Learn to go get it.
Videos in plain language about using AI tools well, made for people who are not technical and have no plans to become technical.
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01The obvious question
Yes, we use it.
AI tools make creating so easy. Odawni and I use AI tools extensively, and used in the right way, their output belongs right next to human-made products and content.
Using AI often sparks a desire in the user to return to basics, touch grass. Every emotion on the hype-skepticism spectrum about AI is valid and should be explored. It’s here to stay.
What does it mean to be creative with your body, with a tool, with an AI tool? How have you expanded your artistry? What else is possible?
That’s what this series teaches: how to know exactly what these tools do, use them on purpose, and keep your hand on the output. Not how to generate more, but how to go get what you actually want and throw out the rest.
02The episodes
Watch one, build the thing.
I Vibe Coded an Oregon Trail Game
A working game built start to finish with these tools, with the wrong turns left in. It shows what the method produces rather than teaching it.
Watch on YouTube →Season 1 · Go Get Your Own Information
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AI Basics
What these tools are, what they are good at, what to never hand them, and how to keep a person in the loop. Start here if you have never opened a chatbot.
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Build Your Own Newsletter
A full build, using fantasy football. In about an hour you will have a weekly digest for your own league that you own outright.
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The Prune Episode
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Build Your Own Sports Desk
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Build Your Own Research Briefing
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Build Your Own Local News Digest
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News for Your Hobby
Planned
Season 2, Go Make Your Own Tools. Meal planners, job search trackers, the family paperwork nobody wants to touch, and your own learning plan.
Season 3, Level Up the Muscle. Chaining prompts together, building a first agent, and sizing up a new AI product in ten minutes.
There are no release dates, because these go up when they are finished. Season 1 is the commitment.
03The method
Four steps, in this order, every time.
Pick
Choose one thing you want, specific enough to have a name, instead of deciding to learn AI in general.
Prompt
Write the instruction in five parts: role, context, task, format, and constraints. The same five you would use to brief a new hire.
Prune
Cut what is wrong, keep what is right, and run it again. This is the step people skip, and skipping it is how slop gets made.
Ritual
Give it a home and a schedule, so that it still happens during a busy week and not only when you feel like it.
04Who is making this
I train corporate teams in AI enablement for a living, which means I spend my working hours watching people meet these tools for the first time and learning exactly where they get stuck.
I build my own things with them on nights and weekends, which is how I know the difference between a demo and something that still works on a Tuesday when everyone is busy. This series is the same material I teach at work, given away.
Want help with this directly?
I take on work outside the day job: coaching a family or a small team through their first real use of these tools, building the one weekly chore that is eating your business, advising on where AI fits and where it does not, and writing and content work under the Meatbag Made mark. Send an email describing what is going on, and I will answer it myself.