Decision Hygiene
Slow stressed decisions and audit bias without asking AI to certify objectivity.
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8 min readDecision hygiene under stress: slow the process, not the choice
A reversible/irreversible check, an evidence ledger, and a delay rule for the moment a consequential decision meets an activated nervous system — without handing the choice to a chatbot.
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9 min readUse AI to audit a decision for bias, not to certify it as objective
A fixed six-bias checklist and a counter-evidence requirement for auditing a decision you have already leaned toward — with a warning that the model auditing you is a biased participant, not a referee.
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6 min readUse AI to Clarify Values Without Asking It What You Should Value
AI is genuinely useful for testing whether a decision is consistent with values you already hold, and for surfacing tradeoffs you have not named yet. It cannot tell you what to value, and asking it to is a different, riskier request than asking it to help you think. A values-conflict worksheet keeps the two separated.
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8 min readGoals that survive contact with reality
Most goals fail quietly, not dramatically — they just lose to time, energy, and competing responsibilities. A workflow for turning a vague goal into a testable two-week experiment, with AI as the stress-tester, not the motivator.
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8 min readThe weekly review: find the patterns, keep the judgement
A repeatable weekly review that turns a week of scattered notes into evidence-backed themes and open loops — using AI to scan faster, not to decide what your week meant.
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8 min readCareer reinvention: map transferable evidence before chasing titles
A practical way to turn past work into evidence-backed capabilities, test a possible new direction, and identify the smallest credible next step without asking AI to choose your career.
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7 min readYour AI agrees with you too much: four thinking-partner failures
AI can help you examine a decision, but it also inherits your framing, rewards confident prose, and quietly encourages you to outsource judgement. Here is how to catch each failure.
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7 min readHow to make AI disagree with you honestly
Five practical prompting patterns turn agreeable AI output into a more useful challenge—without pretending that a generated counterargument is evidence.
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7 min readWhat not to delegate to AI: draw your personal line
Use a practical boundary test to keep accountability, relationships, and important skills in human hands while still getting useful AI assistance.
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8 min readUsing AI for better decisions: frameworks, pros/cons, and devil's advocate
AI is an unusually good sparring partner for decisions — if you stop using it as an answer machine. A workflow for using AI to make better choices, with the prompts that force it to disagree, not agree.
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