Jul 13, 2026 · 12 min · 11 segments
This episode highlights the highest and most undervalued use of AI: as a simulator to build judgment, which is the ability to choose the right move in messy situations with incomplete information…
Now we get to what I think is the highest and the most undervalued use of AI for those of us that want more, that are ambitious.
Because the bottleneck for most of us isn't information, it's experience.
It's not that we don't know what to do, It's that we haven't practiced doing it under realistic conditions.
And practice is what creates judgment, which is what develops capacity.
If you look at almost any high-level skill, leadership, entrepreneurship, medicine, therapy, negotiation, teaching, writing, public speaking, what separates the strong from the average is not just knowledge.
It's judgment.
It's wisdom.
Judgment is the ability to choose the right move in a messy situation with incomplete information.
We don't get judgment from reading.
We get it from repetition.
We get it from experience.
We get it from seeing patterns.
We did a whole series on learning how to see patterns.
to ask what's this like and how is it different.
We get judgment, we get wisdom from making mistakes, from being surprised, from learning what fails, from learning what works and why.
Most of us don't get enough reps because reps, in a sense, are expensive.
They take time, they take emotional energy, they require context.
not real life, but close enough to train us.
The reason that simulation is powerful is that it forces a different mode of cognition than just passive consumption.
When you're in a simulated interaction, you must select actions.
You must respond.
We have to adapt then.
We have to recover.
Now we get to what I think is the highest and the most undervalued use of AI for those of us that want more, that are ambitious.
Because the bottleneck for most of us isn't information, it's experience.
It's not that we don't know what to do, It's that we haven't practiced doing it under realistic conditions.
And practice is what creates judgment, which is what develops capacity.
If you look at almost any high-level skill, leadership, entrepreneurship, medicine, therapy, negotiation, teaching, writing, public speaking, what separates the strong from the average is not just knowledge.
It's judgment.
It's wisdom.
Judgment is the ability to choose the right move in a messy situation with incomplete information.
We don't get judgment from reading.
We get it from repetition.
We get it from experience.
We get it from seeing patterns.
We did a whole series on learning how to see patterns.
to ask what's this like and how is it different.
We get judgment, we get wisdom from making mistakes, from being surprised, from learning what fails, from learning what works and why.
Most of us don't get enough reps because reps, in a sense, are expensive.
They take time, they take emotional energy, they require context.
not real life, but close enough to train us.
The reason that simulation is powerful is that it forces a different mode of cognition than just passive consumption.
When you're in a simulated interaction, you must select actions.
You must respond.
We have to adapt then.
We have to recover.
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