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The New Medieval: How AI Is Rebooting Reality
2025 was the first of our medieval years. 2026 will throw us deeper into the medieval timeline (and no one is prepared).
 • Samuel Woods
The Cognitive Gym: Using Prompts to Train Your Thinking
An LLM is cognitive training equipment. A cognitive gym is what you do with it. Most people have the equipment. Very few have the method.
 • Samuel Woods
The Process Machine: Using Prompts to Think With Yourself
Dialectical thinking refines ideas through opposition. Process thinking generates ideas through integration. Some problems need stress-testing. Others…
 • Samuel Woods
The Dialectical Machine: Using Prompts to Think Against Yourself
Most people use LLMs to validate their thinking. But it’s more useful to destroy weak ideas before they escape into the world.
 • Samuel Woods
What You Missed (2025) & What's Next (2026)
What I published in 2025, my upcoming book, McLuhan deep-dive, John Vervaeke conversations, and joining the Next Crusade of Beauty.
 • Samuel Woods
How To Improve Your Brain By Talking to LLMs
How every conversation either builds or destroys your capacity to think
 • Samuel Woods
How AI Dialogue Sharpens Human Thought
The paradox of LLMs: they make us think better by forcing us to explain clearly
 • Samuel Woods
Writing with LLMs is Collaborative Thinking
Genuine thinking and discovery happens in the liminal space where human thought meets AI response
 • Samuel Woods
9:20
Can AI Make Art That Feels Human?
A New Twist to the Old Question of "What Is Art?" Now That AI Can Make Anything
 • Samuel Woods
12:59
Are AI Companies Building a God?
The Last Temple We'll Ever Build Might Run on Code
 • Samuel Woods
11:51
Is AI Already Self-Aware?
The Octopus Problem: Why We Can't See AI Consciousness Coming
 • Samuel Woods
9:09
AI Agents Could Be Humanity’s Last Invention
From Users to Overseers: Humanity's Final Job Description
 • Samuel Woods
10:54
AI Could Make Humans The Second Smartest Species
From Homo Sapiens to Homo Hybridus: Is This Our Next Evolutionary Leap?
 • Samuel Woods
Wisdom in the Age of AI
What is Wisdom when AI knows everything and can do it all? The answer is found in an earthly wisdom that might be our most advanced technology.
 • Samuel Woods
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