There is a feeling that you have probably forgotten. Maybe not entirely. But enough that you don’t always recognize it when it arrives. And enough that its absence doesn’t always announce itself clearly. It is the feeling of actually thinking. This is not reading, or…
You have probably been using AI as an oracle. This is not deliberate, and most likely not even done consciously. But functionally, as the thing you go to with questions and receive answers from. The source that knows. The system that produces. The tool that…
Every question contains a hidden passenger. You ask the question. The question travels outward, to a colleague, to an expert, to AI. An answer returns. The answer addresses what was asked. And somewhere in the transaction, invisible to everyone involved, the hidden passenger rode along…
Every question has a parent. A question doesn’t arrive from nowhere. It emerges from somewhere, from a concern, an assumption, a gap in understanding, a situation that produces a need to know something. That somewhere is the parent question. The question that your question is…
There is a man standing in the marketplace. Athens. Fifth century BC. He is not teaching. He has no school, texts, or curriculum. He charges nothing. He holds no position. He claims no expertise. In fact he claims the opposite, that he knows nothing, that…
Most people are very clear about what they want. Or at least believe they are. Ask someone what they want from a difficult conversation and they’ll tell you immediately, I want them to understand my position. Ask what they want from a career change and…
Every thought is going somewhere. Every question you ask is aimed at something. Every problem you engage with is in service of something. Every use of a thinking tool, including AI, is pointed in a direction, whether or not that direction has been examined. Most…
Most arguments aren’t really about what they appear to be about. Two people disagree about a decision. They go back and forth, evidence, counter evidence, position, counterposition, and the argument doesn’t resolve. Because they are arguing about the same words while meaning completely different things.…
There is a question so simple it sounds almost rude. Someone tells you something with confidence. A colleague shares a conclusion. An expert offers an assessment. An AI produces an output that lands with authority. And instead of receiving it, evaluating it, deciding whether to…
Something happens when you read a really good AI response. The output arrives. It’s well structured. It uses the right vocabulary. It addresses what you were asking in a way that feels, and this is the word that matters, familiar. Like something you already half…