How to use AI as an accelerator for mindset, clarity, and life
AI is not just for business. It’s for becoming the future version of you.
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Dear Friend, Subscriber, and Category Pirate,
You’ve heard us say it before: Category Designers get paid for their thinking, not just their doing.
This post isn’t about using AI to cross things off your to-do list.
It’s about using AI to get clear on what you’re actually doing all this for. Not to automate your to-do list, but to interrogate your beliefs, clarify your vision, and accelerate the life you want to live. To do some thinking about thinking.
We’re talking about a different kind of AI use case:
Pirate Katrina uses AI to draft mini-books and outline full-size books. But she also uses it to surface emotional truths she’s too close to see.
Pirate Eddie uses it to pull patterns from large databases. But he also uses it to reframe tough parenting moments and lead with intention, instead of fear.
Pirate Christopher uses it while advising companies on category design. But he also uses it to pressure test his thinking, ask the right questions, and make clear decisions.
When you train AI on your values (not just your vision ), you stop using it to go faster and start using it to go deeper.
What if AI became your clarity co-founder?
You’ve heard us say context is everything in AI.
But here’s the deeper truth: Intention is the engine.
If your goal is speed, AI will help you work harder inside a system you didn’t design. If your goal is transformation, AI can help you reimagine that system from the ground up. The difference?
What you ask it for.
You can leverage AI to interrogate your beliefs, sharpen your thinking, and build the life you actually want—not the one you’ve inherited, defaulted into, or optimized around.
That starts by asking the right questions.
Here’s how we’re using AI in our personal lives: