AI Productivity
Analysis and Decision-Making with AI
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Good decisions require seeing the picture from multiple angles. AI is an excellent aid here: it widens your perspective and reveals what you missed — but it does not decide for you. It organizes your thinking so you can decide with confidence.
Core principle
Do not ask "what should I do?" and get a shallow opinion. Ask for a structured analysis: pros and cons, weighted criteria, risks, and scenarios — then you make the decision based on a clear analysis.Ready thinking tools
- Pros and cons: for each option, weighting the most important point.
- Weighted criteria: score options against your own criteria (cost/time/risk).
- What if: ask for the worst and best scenario for each option.
A magic phrase
Add at the end of any analysis request: "think step by step, then state what I might have missed". This one line raises the depth of analysis and exposes blind spots.Ready prompt — compare options with weighted criteria
Act as a neutral decision advisor. I am weighing two options: (a) hiring a full-time employee, (b) contracting a freelancer. Score each option on these criteria: monthly cost, flexibility, output quality, risk — in a table, with a score per criterion and a preliminary recommendation. Then state what I might have missed.
Common and dangerous mistake
The tool can be confident and wrong. It sometimes fabricates facts and figures with full confidence. Any number or fact you will build a decision on: verify it from an independent source. The tool organizes thinking; it does not replace verification.Pro tip
Ask it to "play devil advocate" against your current leaning. The best decision survives the strongest objection to it — let the tool build that objection before reality does.Check Your Understanding (2 questions)
Question 1
What is the correct role of AI in decision-making?
💡 Why: The tool widens perspective and structures analysis, but the decision, responsibility, and verification stay with you.
Question 2
How do you treat a number the tool gave you to base a decision on?
💡 Why: The tool can be confidently wrong and may fabricate numbers; verify any decisive figure from an independent source.
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