POV
Ideas I’m working with
Most people skip straight to the tools. I start with how we think. Metacognition — the awareness of how you think — is the starting point for everything: intelligence, identity, work, the economy, and society.
Intelligence is bigger than cognition.
We’re living through the moment that can prove it. Emotional, relational, embodied, experiential — the intelligences we forgot to value, and forgot to build.
AI is the moment, not the mission.
The real question is what it’s forcing us to see. The conversation keeps landing on what the tech can do. What’s more interesting — and more urgent — is what it’s revealing about us.
When we talk about AI, we’re talking about ourselves.
The anxiety isn’t about the technology. It’s about identity.
Recent thinking
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The frameworks
Orientation Before Optimization
Sequence matters more than speed. Know what you're optimizing for.
METIS Signature
Your signature way of thinking — the patterns, blind spots, and strengths that shape how you process the world.
Self → Signal → Tools
The sequence. Start with yourself. Externalize what you know so it becomes legible. Only then reach for the tools.
Think With AI, Not Like AI
How you're thinking — your quality and patterns — and how you show up to the AI determines your AI output quality.
How the ideas connect
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@ThinkWithVanessa →The ideas in action — me talking, not writing. For people who’d rather watch.
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Hot 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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A newsletter for people who take their thinking as seriously as their AI tools.