How to Think With AI
The system before the tools. You learn the five needs any chief-of-staff system has to meet, the facts about how models behave that produce the frustrations everyone hits, and how those same five needs become the grammar for briefing a model well.
The shape of the lesson
Ninety minutes, on a fixed rhythm. Short instruction because your pre-work carried the basics, a protected half hour of peer exchange, and most of the time spent applying it to your own work.
What this session gives you
Five Elements
The five needs any chief of staff must meet, whether it is a person or a system you assemble.
Context is king
What you get out is set by the material you put in. Everything else serves that one idea.
Preview the materials
Slides and live practice
A worked walkthrough of the five Elements, then time to grade your own system and start your context.
Two short pieces
How a model represents language, and why it predicts plausible rather than true. Both plain-language, both under fifteen minutes.
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