Sean's Edge prompts

AI-first thinking · cognitive amplification

20 prompts · The Edge

• Apply 12 mental models to one decision simultaneouslyHumans hold 2-3 mental models at once. AI applies Munger’s full latticework — inversion, second-order thinking, Bayesian updating, and 8 more — to one problem at once.
• Break any idea down to atoms and rebuild it from nothingFirst principles at a depth humans can’t sustain. Strip every assumption to bedrock truth, then rebuild from scratch — often arriving somewhere completely unexpected.
• Compress 10 years of expertise into a 2-hour learning sprintAI has read everything in a field. Use it to extract the 20% of knowledge that drives 80% of results — the minimum viable expertise to be dangerous in any domain.
• Design a business that makes money by solving a problem that actually mattersThe biggest companies in history solved real problems. AI helps you find where massive human need meets a viable business model that doesn't require charity to survive.
• Extract the invisible system running your life and redesign it on purposeYou’re running inside systems you didn’t design — habits, defaults, incentives. AI maps the invisible architecture of your life so you can rebuild it.
• Find the billion-dollar idea hiding at the intersection of three trendsHumans see trends linearly. AI cross-references emerging tech, behavioural shifts, and market gaps to find collision points where massive value gets created.
• Find the non-obvious connection between two completely unrelated thingsForce AI to connect domains that have never been connected. The best insights come from cross-pollination — but humans are trapped in expertise silos.
• Find the single intervention that fixes an entire broken systemMost problems are symptoms. AI can model entire systems to find the one leverage point where a small change cascades into fixing everything downstream.
• Find where AI can do in months what would take humanity decades without itSome problems are only unsolved because they need intelligence at a scale humans can't provide. AI changes that equation. Find the problems that just became solvable.
• Identify the cognitive biases warping a specific decision you're making right nowYou can’t see your own biases — that’s what makes them biases. AI audits your reasoning against 30+ cognitive biases and flags the ones distorting this decision.
• Map the second and third-order consequences of any decisionHumans think one step ahead. AI traces ripple effects three levels deep across multiple domains at once — revealing consequences invisible at first order.
• Model what the world looks like if we actually solve a problem everyone's given up onMost people can't imagine a solved version of big problems. AI can model the ripple effects of success — revealing benefits so massive they make inaction indefensible.
• Predict what becomes obvious in 3 years by pattern-matching across industriesEvery industry has already solved your next problem in a different context. AI cross-references evolution patterns across sectors to forecast where yours is heading.
• Red team your own strategy from 5 adversarial perspectivesAI attacks your plan as a hostile competitor, sceptical investor, angry customer, departing employee, and ruthless regulator. Find every weakness before reality does.
• Run a pre-mortem on something that hasn't failed yetYour project has failed spectacularly 18 months from now. AI writes the post-mortem from the future — with hindsight on every warning sign you’re ignoring.
• Simulate 50 futures for the next 5 years of your industryMonte Carlo thinking for strategy. AI runs dozens of plausible futures across different assumptions — then finds the moves that win in most of them.
• Stage a 5-way AI debate where the experts genuinely disagreeFive domain experts with conflicting frameworks argue your question. The disagreements reveal the real complexity that consensus thinking hides.
• Steal a solution from an unrelated field — biomimicry for your problemNature, physics, military strategy, and game theory have solved your problem. AI searches every domain at once for the non-obvious analogy that reframes everything.
• Use AI to find what's already working somewhere and figure out how to scale it everywhereSomewhere in the world, someone has already solved your problem. AI can search every country, every context, and find the proven solution waiting to be transplanted.
• Use AI to write a better prompt than you'd write yourselfDescribe what you want and let AI design the optimal prompt — structure, constraints, and techniques you wouldn’t have thought of.

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