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.
InwittBlogNotes on thinking clearly
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Thinking skills
6 essays on thinking skills.
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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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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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