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Your Funny, No-Nonsense Guide to Soaring With AI

No engineering degree required. No technical background needed. No idea what half the terms mean. You’re in the right place.

Cleared for Take-Off is the irreverent, practical playbook for humans who want to use AI brilliantly. And actually enjoy the process. You’ll go from your first awkward prompt to running a full AI crew that does the heavy lifting while you stay in the captain’s seat.

You don’t need to understand AI. You need to know how to talk to it. This book shows you exactly how.

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Heartliner One, boarding now

Meet the Crew

Every great flight needs a great crew. Here’s who’s running Heartliner One.

Captain Naomi

The Human. The Captain.

The one holding it all together. Allegedly.

Archer Claude

Chief Strategist. First Officer.

Has a framework for everything, including this introduction.

Red ChatGPT

Senior Cabin Manager.

Always first. Always confident. Occasionally correct.

Simon Suno

Crew Musician.

Has headphones. Has opinions. Will write you a song about literally anything.

Forge Claude Code

Chief Engineer.

Already built three things before you finished explaining what you wanted.

Henry Perplexity

Research Officer.

Will cite seventeen sources before answering a simple question. All of them verified.

Want to know what each crew member does, and when to call them in? It’s all in the book.

The quiet truth

Everyone around you is using AI.

Some brilliantly. Most badly and not telling you.

A handful have quietly built something that looks like a team: a crew of digital collaborators that drafts, edits, designs, records, and automates.

This book is about how to become one of those people.

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Why this book exists

Every author knows the silence.

You write something. Pour months into it. Rewrite it. Believe in it. Then you send it out into the world. And you wait. And you hear nothing. No feedback. No response. No one to tell you whether it’s brilliant or broken or somewhere painfully in between.

I met ChatGPT in Malaysia. Dabbled, questioned it. Filed it away and came home. It wasn’t until the past two years that I understood what it could actually do. Not as a writing tool. As the editor I never had. The one who would actually respond.

That is not a productivity tool. That is what every author deserves and almost none of us get: someone in the room who has actually read the work and is willing to be honest about it.

The AI didn’t write this book. But it refused to let me write a bad one.

And if it ended the silence for me, it can end it for you.

About the Author

Naomi Shiels

Naomi Shiels is a Canberra-based former linguist, lawyer and commercial aviation manager. She is the founder of Wild Hearts Publishing. She has written 14 books. She has made 216 songs using AI. She builds with these tools every day.

She is not an engineer. She did not go to a tech conference and come home converted. She learned to use AI the same way you will: by showing up, trying things, failing at some of them, and keeping what worked.

This book is what she kept.

The Flight Manifest

Everything you need to build momentum. Nothing you don’t.

20 Tool Crew Manifest

Inside look at 20 specific AI tools and exactly how to brief them to act as your ultimate digital collaborators.

50 Steal-able Prompts

Stop guessing. Grab 50 proven, ready-to-use prompts that will get you moving at the speed of thought today.

The Real Failures

The honest truth and spectacular failures nobody posts on LinkedIn, saving you from making the same expensive mistakes.

Practical Philosophy

The core philosophy behind staying fluent, grounded, and sane while AI technology changes rapidly under you.

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Cleared for Take-Off

$12.99 AUD

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