Uses
Practical applications of the Less Typical practice. Pick the one closest to your current work.
All uses
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AI workflows: a human review gate at every irreversible step
How Less Typical uses AI as a comparison surface rather than an answer machine, with explicit human gates at the points where words become action.
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Prompts: forcing default → tail → critique
Reusable prompts that install the Less Typical pattern into AI workflows. Each prompt pairs a default-shaped request with a structural alternative and a critique step.
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Reading and writing: enter another mind, recover your own
The Less Typical reading-and-writing pair: read to enter another mind, write to recover your own. Both moves aim at changed seeing, not more output.