About This Playbook
Why This Playbook Exists
Section titled “Why This Playbook Exists”Most AI resources fall into two camps: deeply technical content written by engineers for engineers, or shallow listicles that teach you tricks without building real skill. Generalists deserve something in between.
This playbook was built for people who work across domains, wear multiple hats, and want to use AI thoughtfully in their actual work. Not as a novelty. Not with magic prompts. But as a genuine capability they can develop over time, at their own pace, through practice.
The philosophy is simple: AI fluency is a skill, not a talent. You build it by doing, not by watching. And the people who need it most — generalists navigating complexity across multiple fields — are exactly the people most AI education ignores.
This playbook is a free, open resource for the Generalist World community. It’s designed to evolve alongside the tools it teaches you to use.
About the Author
Section titled “About the Author”Vera Lakmaker is a historian turned AI engineer who has always been drawn to the space between a tool and the person using it. She has identified as a generalist since the age of 17.
Her career has moved through games journalism, marketing, PR, project management, IT infrastructure, remote work, and product design. Each step brought a different lens: how people tell stories, how teams collaborate, how systems work under the hood, and how to build things people actually use.
AI wasn’t a pivot. It was the natural next step. She built this playbook because she learned AI fluency the hard way: as a non-engineer, from scratch, figuring out what actually matters and what’s just noise.
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