Ideas

Thinking in public about integrated intelligence, AI, and what stays human. Most of the long-form writing lives on Think With V.

What I believe

  • Intelligence is bigger than cognition.
  • AI is the moment, not the mission.
  • Orientation before optimization.
  • The capacities AI can't replicate are buildable.
  • When we talk about AI, we're talking about ourselves.

Recent Thinking

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How to Switch from ChatGPT to Claude (Without Losing Your Context)

A practical guide to transitioning between AI platforms while preserving your conversation history and maintaining continuity.

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Your Productivity System Won't Save You in 2026

The thing no one talks about when prepping for a new year. Traditional productivity systems may not be enough for what's ahead.

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A Tale of Two AI Conferences

I attended two AI conferences last month. What they revealed about the current state of AI — and what they revealed about us.

Frameworks

Integrated Intelligence

The capacity to draw on cognitive, emotional, relational, embodied, and experiential intelligence together. The definition was incomplete. AI made that expensive.

Think With AI, Not Like AI

The method. How integrated intelligence shows up in practice with AI tools. Your thinking quality determines your AI output quality.

Orientation Before Optimization

Know what you're optimizing for before you optimize. Sequence matters. Self, then signal, then tools.

Quick Takes

Short-form thinking on TikTok. Eventually, this becomes an interactive AMA — ask me anything, grounded in what I’ve already said publicly.

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