How to Think Clearly In The Era Of AI: Full Course (5 Hours)

Summary: Practical course teaching how to think clearly by improving cognition (attention, working memory, executive function) through biology, environment design and decision frameworks.

– Hardware: Sleep, nutrition, exercise, light, air quality and defaults reduce metabolic friction and raise baseline cognitive capacity.

– Software: Decision tools — expected value, Bayes updates, Fermi estimates, power‑law thinking and chain‑law diagnostics — to prioritise and reason.

– Action methods: Taps (trigger→action), premortems, 5‑minute resolve cycles, notification batching and offload rules to turn clarity into execution.

Quotes:

The brain makes up about 2% of body weight but consumes roughly 20% of resting energy.

The brain will always prefer a habit to a decision — it budgets energy by default.

You don’t have to make things impossible to stop them; you just have to make them inconvenient.