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AI Operating System — Talk Resources
Free tools, prompts & reading list from the Marhaba Talk
What's inside
- →The Master Context Prompt — turn ChatGPT or Gemini into your AI Chief of Staff in 5 minutes
- →The full AI Operating System tool stack — research, prompting, automation, coding, copy, image, video, audio
- →Curated reading list — the essays, posts, and books behind the talk
- →The full slide deck — link drops here right after the talk
What you came here for
You sat through the talk (or you found this page some other way — welcome either way). This is the companion pack — everything Liwaa walked through on stage, in one place, free, with the email-gate so we can stay in touch.
Inside:
- The Master Context Prompt — the exact paste-and-fill prompt that turns ChatGPT or Gemini into your weekly Chief of Staff
- The AI Operating System tool stack — every tool by layer, with the one Liwaa recommends starting with
- The recommended reading list — the essays, posts, and books that shaped the worldview behind the talk
- The slide deck — link drops here right after the live session
Ignis Ignotum Initium. The fire begins in the unknown. The unknown right now is what your week looks like when AI is doing the surface area for you.
1 — The Master Context Prompt
Paste this into ChatGPT or Gemini. Fill in the five brackets. Save the output somewhere you can return to every Sunday.
Act as my elite Chief of Staff and AI Time Management Architect.
My goal is to build a ruthless, highly efficient weekly workflow that
maximizes my deep work and delegates or automates the rest.
Here is my context:
- Role: [Employee / Boss / Agency Owner / Freelancer / Startup Founder]
- Primary Output: [e.g., Writing code, closing sales, managing 5 direct reports, designing product architecture]
- My 'Deep Work' Hours: [e.g., 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM] — I have the most energy here.
- My 'Admin/Reactive' Hours: [e.g., 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM] — I have the least energy here.
- Key Bottlenecks: [e.g., Too many unnecessary meetings, getting stuck in my inbox, context-switching between projects]
Your task:
1. The Perfect Week — Design an optimized, block-scheduled weekly calendar
tailored to my role and energy levels.
2. The Automation Hitlist — Identify 3 specific daily tasks I currently do
manually that I can automate using AI tools (Zapier, Make, ChatGPT
Actions, or Gemini Workspaces).
3. The Triage Protocol — Give me a strict framework for how to process
incoming requests, emails, and meetings without breaking my deep work
state.
Output the strategy clearly, prioritising high-leverage activities.
Re-run weekly. Add one line at the top each Sunday — "shipped X, two new direct reports, deep-work hours pushed to 9–12" — and the model recalibrates the system for you.
Want the full integration guide (calendar wiring + the three background automations)? It is the full Time Management in the AI Age playbook on this site.
2 — The AI Operating System tool stack
The rule: one tool per layer, used for two weeks, before you add the next.
Research & sense-making
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | Cited, real-time AI search | ✅ |
| Exa | Semantic search built for AI workflows | |
| Elicit | Academic research assistant | |
| Consensus | Peer-reviewed evidence search |
Prompting & reasoning
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Default workhorse | ✅ |
| Claude | Best for long-form writing & code review | |
| Gemini | Best if you live in Google Workspace | |
| Mistral Le Chat | Fast, strong open model |
Automation & glue
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Zapier | Easiest no-code automations | ✅ |
| Make | More power, more complexity | |
| n8n | Self-host, full control | |
| Pipedream | Code + no-code hybrid |
Coding & shipping
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Terminal-first AI engineer | ✅ |
| Cursor | AI-native VS Code | |
| Bolt | Prompt to full-stack app | |
| v0 | Prompt to React UI |
Copywriting & content
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Claude | Best long-form writing | ✅ |
| Hemingway Editor | Tighten any draft | |
| Notion AI | In-doc co-writer | |
| Lex | Distraction-free AI writing |
Image generation
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Midjourney | Highest aesthetic ceiling | ✅ |
| ChatGPT Images | Easiest prompt-to-image flow | |
| Ideogram | Best for posters with text | |
| Flux | Open-weights, self-hostable |
Video generation
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Runway | Pro-grade video model | ✅ |
| Sora | Long, coherent shots | |
| Kling | Strong motion fidelity | |
| HeyGen | Avatar-driven video |
Audio & voice
| Tool | What it is | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | Best AI voice cloning | ✅ |
| Suno | Prompt-to-song | |
| Otter.ai | Meeting transcription | |
| Descript | Edit audio like a doc |
3 — Recommended reading list
The essays, posts, and books that shaped the worldview behind the talk.
Essays & posts (read first, free)
- "Situational Awareness" — Leopold Aschenbrenner. The clearest argument for what the next 5 years of AI look like.
- "Machines of Loving Grace" — Dario Amodei. Anthropic's CEO on what a positive AI future actually looks like.
- "The Bitter Lesson" — Rich Sutton. Why scale + general methods keep winning. The foundational AI worldview.
- "What's our problem?" — Tim Urban. The mental-model layer underneath strategic thinking.
- "Aggregation Theory" — Ben Thompson. Why the internet keeps producing winner-take-most companies (and why AI will too).
- "How to Do Great Work" — Paul Graham. The operator's reading of how impactful work happens.
Books (read deeper)
- The Coming Wave — Mustafa Suleyman. The political economy of AI and synthetic biology.
- Co-Intelligence — Ethan Mollick. Practical use of AI in real work, real teams.
- The Singularity Is Nearer — Ray Kurzweil. Long-arc thinking on where compute takes us.
- Atomic Habits — James Clear. The compounding systems layer behind any AI workflow.
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz. Operator playbook for building anything serious.
- Range — David Epstein. Why generalists win in fast-moving fields. The AI era favors range.
Newsletters worth subscribing to
- Stratechery — Ben Thompson on tech strategy
- Import AI — Jack Clark's weekly AI brief
- One Useful Thing — Ethan Mollick on practical AI
- The Pragmatic Engineer — Engineering & AI tooling
- Latent Space — Deep AI engineering interviews
- Torch99 — Yours truly. AI strategy, GEO, the AI-first economy.
4 — The slide deck
The deck link drops here right after the live talk on May 23, 2026.
🔥 Slide deck — coming soon (within 24 hours of the talk). If you are reading this before May 24, 2026, the deck is still on Liwaa's laptop. Refresh this page after the talk — or watch your inbox: we email it directly to every email that unlocked this page.
Where to go next
You now have:
- The Master Context Prompt to turn AI into your weekly operator
- The full AI Operating System tool stack with one clear starting point per layer
- The reading list behind the worldview
- The slide deck (or the queue for it)
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— Liwaa, Torch99
Written by

Founder, Torch99 · Co-Founder, Virtual Minds (ADGM, UAE)
AI strategist and product builder operating from Lebanon. Founder of 99Visibility — the live GEO audit platform for the AI search era.