There is a moment, after I finish a prompt and before I press send, when the ...

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Before sending a prompt to an AI model, pause and ask yourself whether you're genuinely seeking an answer or simply outsourcing thinking to avoid hard work. The author's practice: read the prompt aloud first, and if it's something you should already know or would rather avoid learning yourself, delete it. Tools don't create discipline—they reveal where you've never had it.

• •Pause before sending prompts to question whether they're genuine inquiries or avoidance of hard thinking
• •Ritual: read prompts aloud before sending; delete if they're things you should know or are evading
• •AI tools expose discipline gaps rather than solving them

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.