Collaboration of Rufus Pollock with David Joseph to build tooling for structured thinking — specifically a Logical Thinking Process (LTP) / Issue Tree app. Both David and Rufus share a long-standing desire to improve public discourse and improve collaboration: aligning efforts to goals, making claims or hypotheses and their logical structure clearer (claim-trees), allowing debate to accumulate, mapping evidence clearly to specific sub-claims.
Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
Structure claims into trees. Map evidence to them. Grow shared understanding — together.
We argue badly, and nothing accumulates. How could we do better? | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
Millions of people argue every day about the things that matter most — climate change, what to do about AI, how we might build a better world. Some of it is sharp, even insightful. And almost none of it accumulates.
Page 4: POW+TREE Writing Strategy
As Ms. Lin reflects on the trouble her students are having with writing, she realizes that many of her students need help incorporating the four elements of the writing process (i.e., planning, organizing, writing, and editing and revising) into their essays. She concludes that they need a guide or strategy to follow as they write.[.....]
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…
Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. on Twitter / X
"Writing is thinking." This phrase went viral recently (from https://t.co/EQqohfhUMd), often quoted in the context of objections to use of AI in drafting academic prose. In Nature Reviews Bioengineering we respond: "Thinking is not only writing." Preview below. Shareable full… pic.twitter.com/cZtGdoSwqV— Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. (@briandavidearp) May 15, 2026
Thinking with Sand: A Talk Series Exploring New Software Tools for Creative Exploration and Augmented Thinking At the MIT Media Lab
Most arguments scatter across papers, posts, and threads — and evaporate. A claim tree gives them a stable structure to gather against, the way a cathedral gathers centuries of work into a single, standing thing.
Issue Trees, Hypothesis Trees and SCQA - the Minto Pyramid Principles
(PDF) Why is dialogical solving of a logical problem more effective than individual solving?: A formal and experimental study of an abstract version of Wason’s task
PDF | We study the accomplishment of the abstract version of Wason’s selection task in a cooperative dialogue context that has been neglected in the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Ink & Switch
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
Design Thinking by IDEO: Human-Centered Innovation
Learn how IDEO uses design thinking to help teams solve complex problems through human-centered innovation, creativity, collaboration, and impact.
Conversations for Action | and Collected Essays
Conversations For Action and Collected Essays is a compilation of the seminal works by Dr. Fernando Flores during his tenure as CEO and President of Logonet Inc., an educational and coaching organization, and Business Design Associates, the pioneer management consulting firm in implementing large scale innovation processes and programs. The book is a response to the requests from many former students and clients over the years for the “papers” with Flores’ distinct framework for building teams, leaders, and organizations.
Getting started - Docs
Discourse Graphs are a tool and ecosystem for collaborative knowledge synthesis, enabling researchers to map ideas and arguments in a modular, composable graph format.