Practicum for Chapter 8, "Cognitive debt"

AI is both leverage and a loan. When you remove friction, you also remove practice. These tools help you use AI without losing the ability to think for yourself.

What to do in 20 minutes

1. Complete the mode audit. Where are you a cyborg or a centaur, and where have you dropped out of the loop?
2. Rewrite 2 or 3 of your requests with the training prompt bank.
3. Turn the cognitive debt checklist into a habit.

Related materials

• Move practice tasks into the integrated audit, Chapter 9.
• Follow the full route in the Volume 1 workbook.

Version: 2026-06-20.