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Best AI Prompts for Overcoming Cognitive Biases
A few months ago I watched a senior engineer kill a good idea.
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16 articles · Last updated: 2026-04-02
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Best Book About How to Think With AI: The Top Recommended Book for Learning Human-AI Collaborative Reasoning
A few months ago, a product manager named Dmitri came to me frustrated.
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How to Brainstorm Ideas Using AI Prompts (Without Outsourcing Your Thinking)
And that's the moment most people get it wrong.
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How to Combine Your Intuition With AI Analysis for Better Decisions
A product manager I know - Sasha, at a mid-sized SaaS company - had a candidate in front of her who looked perfect on paper.
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How to Prompt AI to Challenge Your Assumptions Effectively (And Why You Probably Won't Like It)
Most people use AI to confirm what they already think.
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How Do I Prompt AI to Simulate Debates for Better Ideas?
Are you trying to think through a decision and finding that every AI response just agrees with you?
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How Does AI Reasoning Work, and How Can I Replicate It?
Most people using AI in 2025 are running a calculator that occasionally writes poetry.
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How to Use AI for Mental Models and Frameworks (And Actually Get Smarter)
Most people who try to use AI for thinking end up with a smarter-sounding version of the same thinking they already had.
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Should I Use Chain-of-Thought Prompting with AI Thinking Models? Is CoT Essential for Improving AI Reasoning Performance?
You paste a math problem into ChatGPT. Wrong answer. You paste the same problem but add "Let's think step by step." Correct answer. That small phrase - four words - changed everything. That moment, experienced by millions of developers and researchers between 2022 and 2023, launched an entire sub-di
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A Framework for Reasoning Step-by-Step with AI Help (That Actually Works)
Most people are using AI wrong for hard problems - and they know it.
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Advanced Prompting Strategies for Reasoning: What Actually Works
Most people are prompting reasoning models the same way they prompt autocomplete systems.
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What Are the Best Prompts for Brainstorming Ideas with AI?
My screen is blank at 11pm. Deadline tomorrow. The usual tricks - walks, coffee, calling a friend - have already been exhausted. Then I type one sentence into an AI: *"What would someone with the opposite of my assumptions think about this problem?"* Within three minutes I have seven directions I ha
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What Questions Should I Ask AI to Expand My Perspective? A Framework for Genuine Cognitive Expansion
A few months ago, a friend showed me his AI conversation history.
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The AI Algorithm You Can Apply to Your Daily Decision-Making
You've probably wondered whether there's a smarter way to make decisions - not just in theory, but today, before lunch.
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Why You Should Set Boundaries When Thinking With AI (And What Happens to Your Brain When You Don't)
Here's the claim most AI productivity writers won't make: using AI without deliberate constraints doesn't augment your thinking.
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Thinking With AI vs Using AI: The Gap Nobody Talks About
95% of people use AI for tasks. The real value is in thinking with it. Here's the difference, and why it changes everything.