One-Day Intensive

Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI

08.07.26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT · 6 hours in one focused day

What You'll Master

  • Keep your creative edge, don't outsource it to AI
  • Reverse-engineer great writing with AI as your analyst
  • Seize the master-plot templates beneath nearly every story
  • Bend an AI co-pilot to your voice and your values
  • Vibe authorship: AI does the labor, you keep authorial control
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Part of the Resistance Field Training track — 8 classes, take them in any order.

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  1. Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI Date TBA
  2. Practical Propaganda Date TBA
  3. Build a Cyberdeck Date TBA
  4. Intro to Open Source Software Date TBA
  5. Practical Propaganda Date TBA
  6. Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI Date TBA
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Overview

Skeptical about AI? Bring it. This one-day intensive uses critical thinking to beat AI brain-drain, then puts AI to work as a co-pilot -- never a replacement. You'll configure your own assistant (memory, tools, and connectors), flip the script so it interviews you, and use AI as an analyst to reverse-engineer what actually makes great writing work. After a values exercise and a creativity warm-up you'll land a real book premise, raid the master-plot templates behind nearly every story -- Story Circle, Freytag's Pyramid, the Hero's Journey, Tobias' 20 Master Plots -- pour in your own history, and start writing something you genuinely like. Call it vibe authorship: the AI does the labor, you keep authorial control. No coding required.

Who this is for & what you'll need

🟢 No codeThe AI writes any code. You'll never touch a terminal.
🖥️ A few installsYou'll install a couple of tools — we'll help you in class.
On your own machineClaude track: install Obsidian, Claude Desktop, and Node.js v18+ locally for the MCP path.
Or use the hosted optionChatGPT track: runs entirely in the browser with Custom GPTs, no install.

Where This Class Leads

What you leave able to do

  • falsify a blended voice by looking for its sources
  • justify a story structure that fits what you want to say
  • construct a multi agent conversation with turn taking
  • govern a swarm by information hierarchy
  • reconcile agents from different toolchains into one run
  • synthesise a long work that stays consistent across many generations
  • synthesise an agent that carries notes across its own runs

How you show it. Paired runs of the same multi-step task with the note store kept and cleared, where the cleared run repeats a step the noted run skips, plus the note text the agent wrote and the later turn that cites it.

It sits on 3 paths

🎨 A creative studio with AI. 1 of 5 before The Interactive Fiction Intensive 🧙 Build strange systems that change how people think. 1 of 8 before Practical Propaganda 📊 A liberal-arts curriculum rebuilt around AI. 1 of 4 before Practical Propaganda

About 30 hours of practice sit behind this one. See what your hours buy.

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One-Day Intensive
Suggested $ 100 · pay what you can
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Minimum price — doesn't fund a scholarship seat

A minimum price keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship — no one is turned away for lack of funds.

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