Thinking with AI · Coming soon
Use AI every day without losing the ability to think for yourself
You can keep the speed and keep your judgement, but not by accident. This course has you sort your own work, task by task, into what you keep, what you share with AI and what you delegate, then set working rules and one weekly habit so the skills you are paid for stay in use.
The course: Thinking alongside AI: what to keep and what to delegate
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If this sounds like your week
- You open ChatGPT before you have formed a view of your own, and the first draft it gives you becomes the thinking.
- You have shifted from writing to editing, and a blank page now feels harder than it used to.
- You accept answers that sound right because checking them takes longer than asking.
- You cannot tell which parts of your job you are getting faster at and which you are getting worse at.
What you do now, and where it stops working
Today you use AI for whatever is in front of you, and when the worry surfaces you promise yourself to use it less. That rule has no line in it, so it lasts until the next deadline.
What changes after the course
- You know which of your tasks you do yourself first, and you can say why for each one.
- You use AI as a critic of your draft, not only as the author of it.
- You check AI output harder when the stakes are high and lightly when they are not, by a rule you wrote.
- Once a week you do one piece of your core work without AI, on purpose, and you notice when it gets harder.
How it works: Keep, share, delegate
- 1Audit: list a real week of your work and mark each task keep, share or delegate, using the questions the course provides.
- 2Assign roles: for shared tasks, choose whether AI acts as critic, sparring partner or drafter — and write your own view first.
- 3Set a checking rule: match how hard you verify an answer to what it costs if the answer is wrong.
- 4Protect the core: pick the one skill you most need to keep and schedule a weekly session that uses it unaided.
What you get
- Keep, share or delegate audit worksheet
- Prompt patterns for critique, sparring and drafting
- Stakes-based checking guide
- Video walkthrough of the audit applied to a real week
This is for you if
- You use AI daily at work and have started to wonder what it is doing to your own thinking.
- Your value at work rests on judgement, writing or analysis you do not want to lose.
- You want rules you can follow, not a debate about whether AI is good.
Skip it if
- You want to stop using AI entirely. This course assumes you keep using it.
- You are looking for prompts to produce more output faster.
- You rarely use AI. The audit needs a week of real use to work on.
Before you join
- Will this make me depend on AI more?
- It is built to do the opposite. The audit names the tasks you keep doing yourself, and the weekly habit makes you do one of them unaided. Where you do use AI, the course puts your own draft first and the model second.
- Should I not just stop using it?
- For most people that is not an option at work, and it would throw away real gains on routine tasks. The course draws the line task by task, so you delegate the work that costs you little to lose and keep the work that defines you.
- Is the skill loss real, or is this a moral panic?
- The evidence is early. A 2025 Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon survey of 319 knowledge workers found that higher confidence in AI went with less reported critical-thinking effort, and higher self-confidence with more. That is self-report, not proof of decline. The course treats your own experience as the test.
- My manager wants me faster with AI. Will this slow me down?
- On the tasks you delegate, no — the audit is meant to make you delegate those with less hesitation. On the few you keep, you spend some time on purpose. You decide where that time goes instead of losing the skill without noticing.
- Who wrote this?
- Jay West writes How to Think, a curriculum on thinking at howtothink.ai. Each lesson is one idea with an example, an exercise, a failure mode and a step to carry into your week. This course uses the same format.
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