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Compare the two outputs and ask: what was more helpful — information or reflection — and when is AI useful versus a hindrance for finding a solution? The point of running both modes is the comparison, not either one alone. Set the results side by side and interrogate them: Was i...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 05, 2026

Involve stakeholders (especially future users), work iteratively with prototypes, "kill your darlings", and test early and often. * Five execution-phase habits that keep you building the chosen solution well — the counterpart to testing whether you picked the right problem. * Th...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 05, 2026

A collaborative visualisation that gathers what a team knows about a type of user — what they say, think, do and feel — to build shared understanding and support decisions. * Around a picture of the user, the team pools what they say, do, see, hear, and think & feel (pains and g...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 05, 2026

Don't swallow information uncritically; test arguments for logical errors; reflect on your own views; understand how media and technology shape what you see; stay open to changing your mind; back judgements with reasons; and know the limits of perception. Budelacci lists critical...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Through questioning — his "midwifery of ideas" (maieutiké techné): he didn't deposit answers but asked questions that helped others give birth to insight themselves. Socrates likened his method to his mother's trade as a midwife: he claimed to teach nothing directly, but to deliv...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

A prison designed so inmates can always be watched but never know when — Foucault's image for power that works through internalised, permanent surveillance rather than force. * Bentham's design: one tower can watch any cell but is never seen back, so inmates self-discipline — Fo...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Activate a critical mindset in yourself, prefer real conversation over feeds, study your own biases, practise scientific method and transparency, and use the Odysseus principle to protect yourself from yourself. The closing recommendations form a practical programme: Activate th...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Our access to the world is always filtered and incomplete, so a belief can be useful (it helps us act) without being true — a critical thinker keeps the two apart instead of mistaking one for the other. Human perception and interpretation are bounded: we never see the world raw,...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

He made doubt a deliberate method: doubt everything that can possibly be doubted, to find what remains certain — and what remains is "I think, therefore I am." Descartes turned doubt from a vice into a tool. Methodical doubt means systematically suspending belief in anything that...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Law sets enforceable minimum standards to keep society functioning; ethics goes beyond law to ask how we want to live and what a human being is. The two operate at different levels: Law Ethics What it is Normative minimum standards Reflection beyond the legal frame Why...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026