Thinking with ai · 12 min
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.
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Decision making
8 essays on decision making.
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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 · 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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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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