AI as Your Thinking Partner: Strategy, Decisions & Spotting Opportunities
Stop using AI to type faster — start using it to think better. Pressure-test ideas, find angles you'd miss, and surface real opportunities.
About this course
This is the most directly strategic course in the academy, and the one that helps you find ideas — including ways to make money — by thinking better, not by chasing a script. You'll build a reusable 'thinking partner' prompt kit and run a real decision or idea of your own through it, end to end.
6 lessons
From Doer to Director: Using AI to Think, Not Just Type
The mindset flip that unlocks everything else: treating AI as a thinking partner instead of an answer machine. See the difference on a real problem.
The 'Board of Advisors' Trick
Spin up several AI personas — a skeptic, a customer, a numbers person, a visionary — to debate your idea from every angle at once. The single most powerful strategic technique here.
Pressure-Test Any Idea (Poke Holes Before Reality Does)
Turn AI into a relentless devil's advocate that finds the flaws in your plan while it's still cheap to fix them. You'll red-team a real idea of your own.
Mental Models on Demand
Run any problem through proven thinking frameworks — first principles, second-order effects, opportunity cost — without having studied them. AI brings the model; you bring the judgment.
Spotting Opportunities: Finding the Gaps and the Upside
Use AI to scan a market, a job, or your own skills for under-served gaps and realistic opportunities — including income angles — grounded in what's actually there, not wishful thinking.
Build Your Thinking-Partner Prompt Kit
Assemble your reusable strategy prompts — board of advisors, red-team, mental models, opportunity scan — into one kit. The artifact you'll reach for before every big decision.