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"That's impossible!" isn't always. Redesigning the world by seeing and melting constraints. Today's best levers: trust and GenAI.
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If a Thing Doesn’t Transit Your Neurons... (opens the original)
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Cognitive surrender is about giving over our work to AI, and it’s veeeery tempting.Shifting into System 2 Thinking — setting aside your knee-jerk first response and engaging your neurons in actual thought — is annoying, time-consuming, and difficult. Unless you love it. But it’s the path out of cognitive surrender toward appropriate cognitive offloading.Awareness is key.For example, one of the problems with me making my external Brain available publicly is that nobody kno
On Sensemaking (opens the original)
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Ways We Give Away Our Thinking (opens the original)
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Your org is deciding right now, mostly by accident, how much of its thinking to outsource. I’ve spent thirty years on the other side of that line, and I can show you what it looks like from there.The four scenarios:Unchecked Summaries. Ever heard the advice that whoever takes notes of a meeting has way more power than most people realize?The AI First Draft that Becomes Final. First you ask AI for a critique. Then you ask it for a draft. Then you stop checking. Then you stop thinking.The Sawn-Off
On Handing Over Your Thinking (opens the original)
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