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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI

If-Then Planning

Formal System

Peter Gollwitzer's implementation intention technique — precommitting to specific behaviors triggered by specific situations, bypassing deliberation at the moment of action.

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An agent is a system that acts on your behalf

Create a Recurring Decision Agent in Todoist

Designed agents replace default agents

Track Your Default and Replacement Agent in Todoist

Agent components: trigger, condition, and action

Map Your Autopilot Decisions with If-Then Planning in Notion

Agents must be specific and testable

Design a Testable If-Then Agent in Notion

Document your agents

Document a Personal Agent in Notion

Social agents

Create an If-Then Social Response Script in Notion

Health agents

Design a Health Agent with If-Then Rules in Todoist

Financial agents

Design Three Financial Agents in Todoist

Reliable triggers are specific and observable

Design Observable Triggers Using If-Then Planning in Todoist

Event-based triggers

Create Event-Based Work Triggers in Todoist

Emotional triggers

Log Emotional Triggers and Build If-Then Agents in Notion

Chained triggers

Build a Behavior Chain Tracker in Todoist

Trigger stacking

Build a Stacked Trigger Tracker in Todoist

Pre-commitment as a decision framework

Create a Pre-Commitment Rule in Todoist with If-Then Format

The default option framework

Design a Default Decision System in Todoist

Kill criteria

Create If-Then Kill Criteria in Notion

Decision frameworks free your mind for creativity

Build If-Then Rules for Your Five Most Frequent Decisions in Notion

Graceful degradation

Build Three-Level System Degradation in Notion

Recovery procedures

Build a Process Recovery Checklist in Notion

Self-correcting systems are the ultimate goal

Build a Self-Correcting Error System in Todoist

Multiple agents must coordinate to be effective

Map Competing Cognitive Agents in Notion

Agent conflicts arise from overlapping scope

Map Your First Scope Collision in Notion

Priority ordering resolves agent conflicts

Map Agent Conflicts with If-Then Rules in Todoist

The orchestrator agent

Build a Morning Agent Orchestration Log in Notion

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