Best ways to use AI, sorted by who does the thinking
Most lists sort the best ways to use AI by where you are. Sorting by what you need to keep shows which uses build a skill and which wear it down.
BlogNotes on thinking clearly
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Notes on thinking clearly, deciding well, and why a good question beats a fast answer.
Thinking with ai · 12 min
GenAI is making us dumber? Only at what you skip
Trials from 2026 suggest GenAI is making us dumber only at skills we stop practicing, and ten minutes of taking its answers is enough to show it.
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Thinking with ai · 11 min
AI and critical thinking: it depends who asks the questions
Most advice on AI and critical thinking says it depends how you use it. Three 2025 studies name the variable: who ends up doing the reasoning.
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Decision making · 12 min
What happens when you do not make a decision: it gets made
Waiting feels neutral. What happens when you do not make a decision is that a default, a deadline or someone else makes it, one closure at a time.
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Decision making · 11 min
How to manage decision fatigue: close the open ones
Fewer small choices barely dent it. How to manage decision fatigue when the real drain is one open decision you keep reopening all day.
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Decision making · 11 min
Signs of poor decision making: seven you can check
Most lists describe a personality. The signs of poor decision making worth having are facts about how a choice got made, checkable after the fact.
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Overthinking · 12 min
Stop overthinking in a relationship: three kinds of doubt
Most guidance on how to stop overthinking in a relationship tries to quiet the thought. Sorting it by who could answer it ends it faster.
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Overthinking · 13 min
Overanalyzing: the stopping rule nobody writes down
The hours are not the problem. Overanalyzing is analysis that never agreed on what would settle the question, so it ends in exhaustion instead.
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Overthinking · 13 min
Get out of your head: the two exits, and which one holds
Grounding helps you get out of your head for ten minutes. Sorting the loop on paper gets you out for good. Which exit fits which thought, and why.
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Students · 13 min
College students and AI: the use that fails on exam day
For college students AI help is now a weekly habit, mostly for coursework and checking answers. One trial shows what those two uses do on exam day.
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Students · 13 min
Cons of AI in education, ranked by the evidence
Every list gives the same seven cons of AI in education at the same volume. Five were measured in 2025, one is still a worry, and one was retracted.
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Critical thinking · 12 min
7 steps of critical thinking: the two most people skip
Every list of the 7 steps of critical thinking gives seven verbs. Here each step is a question with a written output and a test that it is done.
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Critical thinking · 12 min
Critical thinking with examples: the move, not the scene
Most critical thinking with examples pages show a scene and a happy ending. Six situations shown as the move itself: belief, question, result.
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Critical thinking · 11 min
How to improve critical thinking: what works now
Habit lists do not change how you think. How to improve critical thinking the way research says it works: one real decision, on paper, with questions.
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Thinking skills · 10 min
Higher order reasoning skills: what they are, why they fade
Bloom's taxonomy tops out at analysis, evaluation, and creation: the higher order reasoning skills built through practice, not reading about them.
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Thinking with ai · 9 min
Why AI should not be used in education: the evidence
Two 2025 studies agree: why AI should not be used in education comes down to trust in the tool, not the tool itself, and that habit is learnable.
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Critical thinking · 12 min
Reasoning critically: what it means and how to do it
Most guides say to question your assumptions. Reasoning critically is harder, because reasoning evolved to defend conclusions, not to test them.
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