Mr. Anuj Magazine

Anuj Magazine took the second half of the workshop and moved it from ideas to hands. His opening argument was simple: general purpose technologies never enter our work first — they enter our lives first. Electricity took forty years to reach the factory floor. The first thing most of us did with the internet was open a mail account, not a corporate site. AI will follow the same route, so the fastest way to get good at it professionally is to start using it personally, without pressure.

From there the room worked, rather than watched. Volunteers came up and spoke to AI by voice instead of typing, and the demonstrations were deliberately mundane: preparing for a teacher interview on the commute, uploading a job description, asking for unusual interview questions one at a time, then sharpening them live until they were genuinely useful. Within minutes the session had produced a set of questions no candidate could rehearse for — including asking a candidate what their principal, a colleague and a student would each warn a new employer about.

Three habits ran through everything he showed. **Prime the model** — tell it what is coming before you give it the task, exactly as you would brief a colleague; responses measurably improve. **Interrupt it** — chatbots are built to be helpful and will over-explain, so cutting them off mid-sentence is a feature, not rudeness. And **structure the prompt**: his CRAFT formula — Context, Role, Action, Format, Tone — turns a vague request into a reliable one. "Act as a teacher hiring review assistant" pulls the model into a persona it has been trained on; "stay close to what the candidate actually said" and "separate evidence from opinion" keep it from flattering you.

He closed the loop with recordings. Interviews, parent meetings and staff conversations can be recorded with consent on any phone, and the transcript is where the real value sits: a first-pass interview review, a summary of commitments made, follow-ups nobody would otherwise remember. He demonstrated wearable recorders such as the Indian-built Neo Sapien as a "second brain", while being emphatic that consent comes first, every time.

The through-line was that none of this asks for extra hours. It fits into the commute, the gap before a meeting, the walk between blocks — which is precisely why it works for people who run schools.