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The Amplified Mind
Thinking Clearly in the Age of AI
Thinking Clearly in the Age of AI
Essential reading for anyone wanting to engage meaningfully with AI in their life. His five-minute rule is golden advice.Prof. Grant Schofield PhD — Director, Human Potential Centre, Auckland University of Technology
Not the output. Not the results. Not the volume of work produced. The sequence of thinking changed.
Artificial intelligence generates first. You evaluate afterward. The work looks the same. The process feels efficient. But something underneath has quietly shifted, and most professionals have noticed it without being able to name it.
Built across 14 chapters, this book shows professionals, leaders, and knowledge workers exactly how AI-assisted work alters the way they think, and what disciplined thinkers do differently to stay in control of their own reasoning.
This is not a book about prompting better. It is a book about thinking better, on purpose, in an environment designed to do your thinking for you.
The machine generates. The thinker decides.
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The Amplified Mind companion course is a 14-module written program, one module for each chapter of the book, plus a Capstone and a Master Prompt. It's available now on Gumroad, and institutions can also access it as part of an adoption package through the educators page.
If you are an educator interested in adopting The Amplified Mind for your program, everything you need is on the educators page.
Visit the Educators PageOne framework for thinking independently in an AI world.
Each module gives students a practical framework, a real-world scenario, reflection questions, and a named practice they apply directly to their own academic and professional workflow. The course culminates in a Capstone module where each student builds their own Personal Amplified Thinking Protocol.
Learn More for InstitutionsThe educators page is where this book is designed to go first. Common reading committees, first-year experience directors, and faculty considering adoption will find everything they need there, including a free review copy, discussion guides, writing prompts, and information about author visits.
A retired Fire Captain turned energy executive who wrote a book about AI and independent thinking. The credibility comes from watching judgment fail under real conditions, not from a tech background. Each conversation angle below links to a related essay for a deeper preview of the thinking.
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