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  • Prompt Libraries Can’t Be Your AI Strategy

    Prompt Libraries Can’t Be Your AI Strategy
    2026/01/07
    Greg Twemlow argues that relying on pre-written prompt libraries is an ineffective AI strategy because it prioritises increased output over genuine human cognition. He suggests that simply distributing instructions leads to organisational drift, where the volume of content grows while shared judgment and quality standards decline. To combat this, he proposes the Context & Critique Rule, a discipline that ensures users maintain intellectual ownership by establishing context and applying rigorous evaluation before adopting AI results. His leadership briefing aims to shift organisations from mere tool adoption toward cognitive coherence, ensuring that AI use is grounded in transparent thinking rather than hollow automation. Ultimately, the goal is to foster shared mental frameworks that preserve integrity and professional standards as artificial intelligence scales. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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    14 分
  • Context & Critique SI Library

    Context & Critique SI Library
    2026/01/03
    Greg Twemlow introduces the Context & Critique SI Library™, a structured framework designed to move beyond shallow AI interactions by enforcing a rigorous "Context → Draft → Critique → Revise" loop. This system utilizes a stable Core System Instruction alongside modular "Module Cards" to ensure that human judgment and accountability remain central to the creative process. By categorising work through specific modes, stakes, and phases, the library helps users maintain transparency and traceability in their decision-making. A key feature, the "Wall" threshold, acts as a final integrity check to guarantee that any shared output is credible and reflects the author’s authentic voice. Ultimately, the methodology seeks to transform AI from a simple search tool into a legible and professional partner for educators and leaders alike. This approach ensures that technological efficiency does not come at the expense of intellectual ownership or critical thinking. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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  • The Philosophy Enabling Human Meaning to Survive

    The Philosophy Enabling Human Meaning to Survive
    2026/01/02
    Greg Twemlow explores the essential role of structured methodology in safeguarding human meaning and authorship against the rapid, machine-driven pace of artificial intelligence. He draws a striking parallel between the rule-bound techniques of 4,000-year-old Texas rock art and the modern need for cognitive protocols to navigate the widespread diffusion of AI. By comparing ancient artistic consistency to contemporary system instructions, the author argues that repeatable sequences and human-scaled rhythms are vital for preserving judgment over mere speed. His IB137 framework serves as a modern scaffold, offering a disciplined thinking process that prevents automated fluency from replacing genuine individual discernment. Ultimately, the text asserts that as technology becomes ambient, humans must adopt a rigorous "seamanship" of the mind to maintain agency and prevent their decisions from being outsourced to algorithms. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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    14 分
  • Temple of Ice and Salt

    Temple of Ice and Salt
    2025/12/31
    In this creative narrative, author Greg Twemlow imagines a meeting in Havana with Thomas Hudson, the protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumous novel Islands in the Stream. Their conversation serves as a vehicle to explore Twemlow’s Earth Mother Manifesto, which posits that modern humanity suffers from a profound sense of civilisational orphanhood due to its detachment from the natural world. By pairing his philosophy with Hudson’s stoic grief, the author argues that we have mistakenly traded a sacred connection to nature for mere resource extraction. The dialogue emphasises that the environment is a sovereign divinity rather than a property to be owned, suggesting that our current loneliness stems from this spiritual severance. Ultimately, the text uses this fictional encounter to advocate for a new theology that recognises nature’s indifference and our own inherent smallness within the global ecosystem. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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    9 分
  • Canary in the Coal Mine

    Canary in the Coal Mine
    2025/12/28
    Greg Twemlow argues that the dominance of major retail aggregators like Amazon is being threatened by the rise of AI buying agents. These autonomous bots allow consumers to engage in "headless" commerce, bypassing traditional digital storefronts to purchase goods directly from manufacturer databases. While this shift eliminates the "middleman tax" and restores brand sovereignty, it removes the trust layer and logistical efficiency provided by large platforms. The author suggests that smart contracts will likely replace traditional consumer protections, though the push for direct-to-consumer shipping may lead to increased environmental costs. Ultimately, the friction of manual checkout is the only remaining barrier protecting current e-commerce giants from total algorithmic disintermediation. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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    13 分
  • AI Cognition Ignition — Starting With Teacher Professional Development

    AI Cognition Ignition — Starting With Teacher Professional Development
    2025/12/26
    B137 is a specialized educational protocol designed to prioritise human discernment and logical reasoning in an era of rapid artificial intelligence. The program begins as a ninety-minute professional development session for teachers, who then transfer these critical thinking techniques directly to their students across various academic subjects. By employing the Context & Critique Rule™, the method intentionally slows down the interaction with technology to ensure that individuals remain the true authors of their work. Rather than focusing on technical software skills, this approach fosters defensible logic and academic integrity by making the thinking process visible and assessable. Ultimately, the framework serves as a subject-agnostic tool that allows schools to integrate AI safely while maintaining a strict focus on high-quality cognitive development. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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  • How to Retain Authorship

    How to Retain Authorship
    2025/12/21
    In this collection of essays, Greg Twemlow explores the necessity of maintaining human authorship and personal agency as artificial intelligence becomes deeply integrated into society. He argues that users must resist the machine’s rapid pace to protect the authentic tempo of human consciousness through deliberate reflection. Central to his philosophy is the Context & Critique Rule™, a framework designed to transform individuals from passive recipients of AI output into critical architects of meaning. By analysing his own digital archive, Twemlow demonstrates how AI can serve as a mirror, exposing gaps between one's stated values and lived reality. Ultimately, the work serves as a moral charter for the digital age, urging people to use discernment and vulnerability to remain the true authors of their own lives. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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    11 分
  • Covenants of a Gathered Life

    Covenants of a Gathered Life
    2025/12/18
    The provided text is an excerpt from a Medium article by Greg Twemlow titled "Covenants of a Gathered Life," which is Part 3 of his series on "A Gathered Life." Twemlow discusses his "Breadcrumbs project," an archival method where he collects decades of digital artefacts to resist the fragmentation of the self caused by modern life. He explains that by arranging these artefacts without premature analysis, visible, recurring evidence emerges, transitioning the project from passive reflection to an active responsibility for authorship. This process led him to identify his core contribution—building scaffolds and protocols to protect human cognition and maintain accountable choice—which he formalises as the three-step arc: Evidence, Cognition, Discernment. Twemlow emphasises that while he used AI as an interrogator to accelerate pattern recognition, the final act of judgment and meaning-making remained human. Ultimately, the project served not as a nostalgic look at the past but as a structural means to frame and inform future action and stewardship. Read the article.

    About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).
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    12 分