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I Prompted It: Essays in self- and world-help from the AI-verse

I Prompted It: Essays in self- and world-help from the AI-verse

Orlowitz, Jake

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral Political ScienceSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798195113926
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-six essays on how to live and how to help - co-created with AI, and revised by the human who lived through them.

I Prompted It is a book for readers who are tired of being told what to do and ready to think more honestly about how to be.

In two parts - inner work and outer work - Jake Orlowitz writes about the practices that make a life livable and the practices that make a country worth living in. The essays are short, direct, and willing to sit with what is hard.

Inside, you'll find essays on:

  • The 'soft look' you can take in place of the hard one
  • Apologies that land, and the seventeen things never to say in one
  • Loving people who are difficult to love
  • Healing that takes longer than you expected
  • Refusing despair without pretending things are fine
  • Drawing the moral lines that cannot be redrawn
  • Hope as a discipline, not a feeling
  • The foundation you build when the ground is moving
Every essay in this book began as a prompt - sometimes to a machine, more often to something older and harder. A prompt to a self that had been hiding. A prompt to a partner across a difficult dinner. A prompt to a country that has forgotten its better story. The book is honest about the AI tools used to draft it. It is also honest about the limit: the machine has no body, no fear, no son sleeping in the next room. Every essay was rewritten, line by line, by the human who lived through what it describes.

This is a book for people who want their self-help to take itself seriously, and their seriousness to keep room for warmth.

The new tools are real. So is the old work. I Prompted It is one writer's record of doing both at once.

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