Quest 05 · Everyone
The Plan at the Crossroads
Break big work into steps, and check each step
- Time
- 6 min
- Max XP
- 100
- Skill earned
- Breaking big work into steps
1 / 50 XP
The winter market
Hanna
This one is big. The village is holding its first winter market in three weeks, and the guild is in charge of getting it ready.
You
A market means a lot of work. Stall layout, recruiting traders, the notice, a plan for bad weather…
Hanna
That is why the way you work matters more than the result this time. Let us see how you split it with Ari.
Summary
What this request teaches
Where does a big job handed over with "do it all" start to go wrong? Through preparing a winter market three weeks away, learn how to break big work into steps, find what the AI assumed, and check each step.
Show the key points (best read after finishing the request)
- Big work handed over with "do it all" gets filled in with stacked assumptions. If an early one is wrong, the rest of the plan goes off course.
- Give the facts already settled first, split the work into steps, and go one step at a time.
- Ask the AI to mark what you must decide first in each step, and it will ask instead of inventing.
- Ask "Mark what you assumed and added" to find hidden gaps.
- Before you send or publish a result, check it for promises you never made.
Try it yourself
Pick a big task you keep putting off (a move, an event, a trip) and start with the template below.
I am going to [the big task]. What is already settled: [fact 1], [fact 2]. Break this work into steps, and mark what I must decide first in each step. Let us do only step 1 today. Mark separately anything you assume and add.