# 🧠 Digital Stoic Praxis

> **Praxis** (πρᾶξις) = practice. Knowledge enacted, not just known.

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## 🎯 In One Sentence

A cognitive discipline for human-AI collaboration built on **mutual sharpening** — the human sets intent and directs, the AI challenges and reveals blind spots, and both learn from the loop.

⚠️ Live experiment. My cognitive toolkit — fork it, adapt it to *your* brain.

> **This is v2, and it's smaller than v1.** I built 105 skills, a 5-phase > workflow, and a 9-skill gate system to force structure out of an AI that > couldn't yet plan its own work. Then the models got dramatically better at > deciding and self-planning — and most of that scaffold became dead weight. > Months of real practice wore it down to its handle. What survived isn't a > lighter version of the same thing; it's what stays **irreducibly human** once > the model can plan for itself: **persist** intent, **guide** at the big > boundaries, **challenge** the confident answer. The arc — build it, practice > it, shed it — *is* the praxis.

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## 💡 Why This Exists

AI tools are powerful but chaotic. Most people either **micromanage** every prompt or **let AI run wild** and pray. Neither scales to real work.

This toolkit treats **AI collaboration as cognitive discipline** — a set of thinking modes you activate depending on the situation, where the AI also pushes back on your assumptions. The goal is not to make AI do more. It's to **think better together** — and that includes letting AI challenge the human.

Deeper why → [PHILOSOPHY.md](PHILOSOPHY.md)

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## 🧭 The Flow

The practice no longer fans out into phases. As the model got better at planning its own work, what's left for the human collapsed to **three things the model doesn't do for itself**:

```mermaid flowchart TD M["🚀 Model self-plans<br/>(handles what scaffold used to force)"] subgraph CORE["what stays the human's job"] P1["💾 PERSIST<br/>carry intent across sessions"] P2["🧭 GUIDE<br/>propose, don'