








Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens

The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
The tools we use to help us think—from language to smartphones—may be part of thought itself.

Tools for better thinking
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Ink & Switch
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.

Thoughts on thinking | Hacker News
The process of forming expressions just is the process of conceptual and rational articulation (as per Brandom). Those who misunderstand this -- believing that concepts are ready made, then encoded and decoded from permutations of tokens, or, worse, who have no room to think of reasoning or conceptualization at all -- they will be automated away.
Early Tools for Thought, Mark Bernstein @ Tools For Thought Rocks
How to Research Tools for Thought
Thinking Frameworks | 2021
Sharing out the best meta-thinking tools I’ve learned this year


AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | Substack
I write about interesting new developments in AI. Click to read AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, by Melanie Mitchell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Generative AI | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Idea and action driven systems
This article is part of a series: ‘Stigmergy: Systems of Mass Collaboration’. “Turing believes machines think. Turing lies with men. Therefore machines cannot think.” –…


Anthropic on Twitter / X
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude. pic.twitter.com/aLUPBifxth— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) July 6, 2026
What we can’t measure about AI – yet | Aeon Essays
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand
