How AI extends my cognition: framing, clarifying, and exploring ideas.
Thinking with AI shifts the experience of thought itself. The act of articulating what you believe, and watching it reflected back, expands understanding in real time. What once felt private becomes a shared exploration, where clarity is a side effect of attention.
Write your reasoning for a current decision. Ask AI to restate and list assumptions. Mark one you will test this week.
Early on, I asked a routine planning question and the model reframed the goal entirely: not “how to do more,” but “what not to do.” It surfaced a constraint I hadn’t named and turned the plan from a list into a choice. Six lines that changed the week.
Turning intuition into clear language with a patient interlocutor.
Stress‑testing choices by surfacing blind spots before they cost you.
Exploring frameworks and contradictions without needing final answers.
Weighing trade‑offs with framing as a first‑class variable.
Thinking across timescales by treating language as a moving signal.
Testing convictions against counterexamples to separate habit from logic.
Mapping trade‑offs and consequences with structured, balanced arguments.
Tracing ideas across decades to ground today’s debates in context.
A focused week to reveal biases and strengthen reasoning moves.
Using breadth prompts to uncover what you didn’t think to ask.