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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI

Concepts

The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types

Rule

Validate your values hierarchy against 3 past decisions…

Test your stated values hierarchy against three past difficult decisions to verify whether it produces the choices you actually made—if it doesn't, either the hierarchy is miscalibrated or the past choices violated your values, and both discoveries are actionable.

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Time audit

Log how you spent your waking hours in thirty-minute blocks for one week, then categorize every block by domain and calculate the percentage of discretionary time each priority actually received.

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Monthly priority alignment score

For each of your top three priorities, calculate the percentage of productive hours last month that directly advanced it (not adjacent or preparatory work), then compare this to your stated priority ranking to measure the cost of current misalignment.

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60-second daily values check

End each workday with a sixty-second values check by asking what your priorities today revealed about your actual values, writing one sentence without elaboration or judgment, then after seven days analyze the pattern to identify your operational value system.

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Three consecutive months on the "didn't get to" list =…

When a goal appears in your monthly 'didn't get to' list for three consecutive months, either restructure your commitments to create protected capacity or acknowledge the goal is abandoned in practice and remove it from your active list.

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