Episode
How to think well with AI: signals, quietness, and the argument engine
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View · Mar 13, 2026 · 33 min
AI has become so embedded in how I work that I can no longer cleanly separate it from my thinking. That raises a question I find genuinely unsettling: is intensive AI use making me a sharper thinker, or quietly doing the opposite? In this episode I pull back the curtain on my full research and writing process — the custom tools, the friction points, and the places where I'm still not sure I've…