Rethink where your AI conversation is taking you.
An AI conversation can keep circling the same ideas—or make steady progress toward a goal you no longer want. Call for a pause and examine the assumptions steering the work. Keep what you've learned while considering a different way to frame the problem, a fresh conversation or an independent perspective.
From Feedforward's Praxis. Created by Lilach Mollick, Feedforward.
Use it on Praxis
This move runs as a ready-made skill in Praxis, Feedforward's skill library.
How it goes
What the AI will do
- Review the available conversation and supporting work, tracing how the goal, decisions and assumptions developed.
- Explain where the current approach may be narrowing your choices and suggest a small reset, along with the option to continue as you are.
- After you choose a direction, prepare a handoff or prompts that preserve useful context and explain how to proceed using the options available in your AI tool.
What to have ready
- An ongoing AI conversation or project, with its relevant notes, decisions and work so far.
- A signal that you want to step back: perhaps you're going in circles, the goal has changed, or you want to consider another perspective.
Where you come in
- Decide whether to keep going, reconsider the problem, carry selected context into a fresh conversation, or seek independent perspectives.
- Review what the AI proposes to preserve and set aside, correcting anything it has misunderstood.
- Carry out the chosen reset yourself when ready. The skill prepares you to act and returns control to you.
What you'll get
A concise explanation of what may be keeping the work stuck or too narrowly focused, plus a way forward you choose. If you opt for a reset, you get the relevant brief, handoff or ready-to-use prompts, with accepted decisions, evidence, assumptions and open questions kept distinct.
You're done when
A concise explanation of what may be keeping the work stuck or too narrowly focused, plus a way forward you choose. If you opt for a reset, you get the relevant brief, handoff or ready-to-use prompts, with accepted decisions, evidence, assumptions and open questions kept distinct.
*Praxis is available to Feedforward members.