Attention
Prompt Reflex
Asking AI before giving your own mind the first attempt.
How it feels
The blank page appears, and your hand moves to the chat window before you have finished forming the question.
At work
A product lead asks for "three launch angles" before writing even one sentence of their own point of view.
Hidden cost
Attention: the first move of the task stops belonging to the human.
You may have this if
Open a blank document. Can you write five ugly bullet points before opening an AI tool?
Try this instead
Run the Ten-Minute Wall: ten minutes of handwritten first attempt, then ask AI for critique only.
Team rule
For strategy, writing, and research tasks, every AI-assisted artifact must start with a visible human first draft.
Related book concept
The Ten-Minute Wall and the Cognitive Partisan workflow.
Evidence notes
Kool et al. (2010) links decision making to avoidance of cognitive demand.
The term applies that effort-avoidance pattern to the first moment of AI-assisted work.
Search surface
Related entries
Now measure the circuit
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