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Act I · Protect Our Human Minds
All the AI prompts from Staying Human, gathered in one place and organized by act. Use them with any AI chat tool you like. Each one sits at the end of a chapter in the book, right next to the journal prompts, so they work best after a few minutes of your own thinking first. Copy one, paste it in, and add a little about your own day, idea, or challenge.
Chapter 1 · Signal vs. Noise
Here are ten events from my day. Help me identify which ones might have long-term meaning and explain why.
Scan my social media posts. Am I contributing to noise or signal?
Be brutally honest.
Chapter 3 · The Power of Stillness
Summarize this challenge so I can step away and let it sit.
Chapter 4 · The Trap of Premature Optimization
Show adjacent possibilities without ranking or scoring.
What's a chaotic but super fun way to look at this challenge?
Chapter 5 · Second-Order Thinking
Simulate consequences from opposing perspectives.
Please push my thinking to the second and third layer consequences and help me think through the moral and ethical boundaries?
Give me some language to generate a conversation with my team, friends, and family on the need to think in second and third order consequences.
Chapter 6 · Courageously Unfinished
Instead of asking for the TLDR, try this.
Help me explore this without summarizing it.
Scan my social media posts. Am I contributing to noise or signal?
Be brutally honest.
Chapter 1 · Signal vs. Noise
Help me examine this collaboration story and identify the orchestration principles that made it successful.
Chapter 2 · Slow on Purpose
Help me explore this idea over years, not days. Ask better questions instead of finalizing it. If I had weeks more time to finish this idea, how would my process look different?
Chapter 3 · The Power of Stillness
Summarize this challenge so I can step away and let it sit.
Chapter 8 · The Orchestration Advantage
Help me examine this collaboration story and identify the orchestration principles that made it successful.
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Act II · Working Together and Designing the Environment
Chapter 7 · Flow as a Competitive Moat
Help me design a 90-minute deep focus session.
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Act III · Choosing Who We Become
Chapter 12 · Vision-Led Curiosity
Suggest adjacent domains I wouldn't normally explore.
Prompts are for personal use as a companion to Staying Human. Always proofread AI outputs.