AI skills

Executive hands typing on a laptop with an AI interface on screen, illustrating AI-assisted decision-making in a business setting.

8 AI decision-making techniques for CEOs and senior leaders (with ready-to-use prompts)

Joseph Redd / June 10, 2026

I asked Claude AI for ways to use AI for executive decision-making: Scenario planning is about using AI to expand […]

A clean side-view cross-section of a multi-layered architectural structure where each distinct horizontal layer is visible through subtle color or material variation and one middle layer glows slightly warmer than the rest, representing the six-layer digital architecture of AI agent systems — interface, orchestration, model, knowledge, tool, and security — where AI is one component within a larger structure that determines whether intelligence becomes a useful and scalable product.

AI is only one layer, so here’s the architecture that makes it actually work

Joseph Redd / June 3, 2026

I enjoy at least feeling like I am getting to the right decisions for complex things. That means I get

Your personalized feed is actually personalized geometry

Joseph Redd / May 27, 2026

I asked Gemini AI about algorithmic recommender systems. Here’s part of what it said: An algorithmic recommender system (or “recommendation

A person's hands hold a document with a red pen poised to make a deliberate correction, posture calm and focused rather than frustrated, representing the adaptive self-leadership skill of critically reviewing and adjusting AI-generated outputs rather than accepting them as final verdicts.

Why I correct AI outputs up to 85% of the time, and the adaptive skill behind that number

Joseph Redd / May 20, 2026

To continue from last week, yet another skill that actually matters right now is critiquing AI outputs. There’s no shortage

A macro photograph of a single leaf backlit by natural light, revealing the intricate network of veins and cellular flows running through it, representing the systems thinking practice of seeing the forces, patterns, and feedback loops inside things rather than the static objects themselves.

You’re not seeing the system—you’re just seeing the things inside it

Joseph Redd / May 13, 2026

To continue from last week, another skill that actually matters right now is systems thinking. I don’t mean IT systems.

A woman leans forward to study an AI-generated output on a screen, pen in hand over a notepad with sparse annotations, representing the analytical skill of reading AI outputs as signals requiring interpretation rather than answers to simply accept.

AI skills, Augmented thinking

My Question-Framing Architecture: How I treat every AI output as a signal, not an answer

Joseph Redd / May 11, 2026

Today, I’ll write about my journey researching and applying the skill of framing better questions for AI. As a preliminary

A person writes a precise, structured prompt or list of instructions by hand or keyboard, representing the analytical thinking skill of clarifying what you need before engaging AI, with a soft digital glow in the background suggesting an AI tool waiting for input.

AI doesn’t fail your prompts—vague thinking does

Joseph Redd / May 7, 2026

One skill that actually matters right now is analytical thinking. (Most folks used to call this skill “critical thinking”. However,