Thinking

There’s a chain reaction most people miss: Clear thinking → Clear writing → Clear prompting Each step refines the one before it. Writing forces you to confront the gaps in your thinking. Prompting forces you to confront the gaps in your writing. AI amplifies whatever you input. Feed it muddy thinking, get muddy outputs. Feed it precision, get leverage. The Surplus of Competence We’re drowning in tools that enable a base level of competence. AI is one of them. Anyone can generate “pretty good” now - content, code, strategy, whatever. ...

LLMs are amplifiers. They amplify your thinking. They amplify your prompts. They amplify your direction. But here’s what nobody tells you: if there’s nothing to amplify, you get nothing useful back. The Problem You ask the AI a question. It gives you a fluent, confident answer. But you have no idea if it’s right. You can’t evaluate it. You can’t tell if it’s missing something crucial. You can’t catch the subtle errors mixed in with accurate information. ...