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Context Training hit #1 on Amazon: How to make AI more useful
Learn how to give AI the context it needs to save time, create options, and do useful work.
By Makeda Boehm
Context Training hit #1 on Amazon
I'm an Amazon #1 bestselling author. ✨
I didn't have that on my bingo card at the beginning of 2026, but I know how to use AI, so I'm not surprised. AI is the greatest tool we have to compress time, which means you can accelerate results.
By Friday evening, Context Training had reached #1 in Amazon's paid Document Management category in the Kindle Store.
I'm proud of that, and I'm excited about what it makes possible next.
I've also been spending time with ideas people tend to file under “woo,” including quantum leaps and manifestation. I see that as room to stay curious about how much we don't know. There are many religions, languages, cultures, and ways of knowing, being, seeing, doing, and achieving.
There are many paths to a life that feels expansive.
Context Training comes from that same belief. There isn't one universal context, one definition of useful, or one right way to move through the world. AI can know more information than any one person and still miss what matters to you. Teaching it your world makes room for your way of knowing, your values, and the path you're actually trying to create.
AI is one of the rare technologies that can open entirely new paths. I put it in the same family as the personal computer, the internet, and the smartphone: technology that changes what one person can access, create, and move forward.
AI access should expand your choices
AI access has three layers: can you reach the technology, understand it, and direct it?
I want to take that one step further.
Access matters because of what it gives you room to do.
More money can mean buying the organic food you want, investing in your business, taking the vacation, or filling the tank without doing math at the pump.
More time can mean being present with your family, taking care of your body, traveling slowly enough to enjoy where you are, or thinking about the future instead of only getting through the day.
More options can mean choosing work because it fits, leaving something that doesn't, living somewhere new for a while, or building an asset that keeps creating value when your calendar is closed.
That's the promise behind this newsletter, the book, Seed & Society®, and EverFreely™.
Entrepreneurship and AI go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Entrepreneurship gives you a way to own what you build. AI expands what one person can test, create, organize, and keep moving without being present for every step. Together, they can help turn knowledge into assets and repeated effort into systems.
Judgment still matters. So do privacy, bias, labor, energy use, ownership, and the very human question of who gets to shape these systems.
If you're concerned about AI, participation gives you more influence over how it's used. You can question it, set limits, advocate for better rules, build alternatives, teach people how to keep their humanity, or create systems that reflect values the largest companies may never prioritize on their own.
I haven't figured all of this out. I've figured out enough to know this:
Having an account isn't the same as having a say.
Understanding the technology gives you more ability to direct it, challenge it, limit it, or decide where it doesn't belong.
That's why I created Context Training. It helps you move from having access to a tool to using it on purpose, with your own goals, experience, standards, and judgment still in the room.
The action is still yours. AI can help you get to it faster.
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