Building real solutions with AI as your thinking partner
This is not a course about using AI tools. It's a course about developing the human capabilities that make AI partnership valuable. By the end, you'll be able to answer two questions with evidence:
Superagency
"What problems are now within my reach that I would not have attempted before?"
Human Value Proposition
"What would be worse about my solutions if I had simply handed the problems to AI?"
How everything in this course connects
The Goal
Better Thinkers
Alone and with symbiotic partners (human + AI)
Capabilities You Build
Self-Directed Learner • Integrative Solver • Adaptive Builder
Observable skills that demonstrate growth
Through Practice
Symbiotic Thinking
Working with AI and peers as thinking partners, not just tools
Techniques
Reading • Writing
Talking • Listening
Habits
Slow Down • Know Yourself
Take the Lead
Thinking isn't invisible — it shows up in how we read, write, talk, and listen. This course exercises all four.
Extracting meaning from structured information. Recognizing patterns, following arguments, identifying what matters.
Exercised through: Course content, documentation, AI outputs
Articulating your thinking clearly. Structuring arguments, explaining decisions, documenting reasoning.
Exercised through: Reflection notebooks, goal setting, demonstrations
Explaining ideas out loud. Defending positions, articulating value, making the implicit explicit.
Exercised through: Peer conversations, check-ins, presentations
Understanding others' perspectives. Asking clarifying questions, receiving feedback, finding the real problem.
Exercised through: Peer conversations, stakeholder interviews, thought partnering
AI makes speed easy. These habits make speed valuable.
Resist the urge to immediately generate. Pause before prompting. Think before asking AI to think.
Built through: Handwritten reflections, wait time, deliberate process
Understand your patterns, gaps, and growth edges. Self-awareness enables self-direction.
Built through: Reflection practice, peer feedback, evidence collection
You direct the work. AI assists. Maintain agency over goals, quality standards, and decisions.
Built through: Sprint autonomy, self-set goals, portfolio defense
Techniques and habits combine into observable capabilities — the evidence of your growth.
Develop meta-learning architecture for rapid expertise acquisition. Know how to learn what you don't yet know.
Built from: Reading + Writing + Know Yourself + Take the Lead
Operate at intersections where human value concentrates — connecting domains, stakeholders, and contexts.
Built from: Listening + Talking + Slow Down + Know Yourself
Iterate toward value through cycles of building, testing, and refining. Ship, learn, improve.
Built from: Writing + Talking + Take the Lead + Slow Down
Each sprint expands who you're solving problems for — building the "Take the Lead" habit through progressive autonomy.
Foundation: Superagency Over Self
Stakeholder: Yourself. Can I identify and solve my own problem? Establish your baseline.
Mirror: Learning Through Others
Stakeholder: Close acquaintance. Can I understand and solve someone else's problem?
Complexity: Navigating Ambiguity
Stakeholder: External entity. Can I solve for someone whose context I don't fully know?
Mastery: Full Autonomy
Stakeholder: Your choice. Can I independently identify, scope, and deliver real value?
Every element serves the learning architecture. Nothing is busywork.
16+ structured conversations across 9+ unique partners. Build a network who genuinely knows your work.
View requirements →Handwritten reflections at the start and end of each class. A physical artifact of your thinking journey.
Show your work. Defend your decisions. Articulate your value proposition for each sprint's stakeholder.
Wednesdays 2-4pm. First half: facilitated peer conversations. Second half: project work with instructor available.
AI is your thinking partner throughout. Learn to direct it, calibrate with it, and recognize when to step back.
These pages aren't just information — they're practice in reading structured thinking. Notice the scaffolding.
Note: This grading system rewards iteration and growth, not perfection. Early mistakes are expected. What matters is what you do with feedback.
Start with the Home page to see where you are and what's due this week.
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