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This Substack provides a window into the cutting edge cognitive neuroscience of intelligence and cognitive resilience augmentation.

The author - Dr Mark Ashton Smith - was trained in the University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition program, and has been a researching professor at the University of Cambridge. Mark has recently been doing extensive work on a unified theory of intelligent cognition called the Trident G theory.

This Substack isn’t just about ideas. It’s a cognitive training lab for ambitious minds wanting to increase intelligence. Public articles teach a core mental model or “mindware” skill — like Bayesian reasoning, expected utility, or causal inference. But as a paid subscriber, you now get access to AI-powered prompt recipes, advanced walkthroughs, and copy-ready toolkits designed to actually build these skills into your thinking.

🧠 Free Articles = Foundations
Everyone gets to read the core tutorials. You’ll learn key intuitions through walk-through examples like:

“Why didn’t my friend call back?”
Or
“Did I fail… or just misframe the evidence?”

These are fast reads, written to teach clear, practical reasoning strategies in ~800 words. But they’re just the beginning.

🧠 Subscriber-Only = Deep Dives & Prompt Kits
Paid subscribers receive:

• Ready-to-use ChatGPT prompts for real-time bias checks, decision planning, and evaluation.

• Live prompt transcripts showing how to apply each strategy in real-world contexts (career decisions, investments, creativity blocks, etc.).

• Downloadable cheat sheets that summarize the thinking models + prompt structures.

• Monthly “Mindware Case Clinics”: I walk through a real subscriber-submitted scenario using Trident G principles and prompt scaffolds.

In sum, our subscription unlocks a library of high-leverage reasoning tools augmented by AI.

Please contribute feedback based on your own use of the mindware strategies and AI prompts. This helps everyone in the IQ Mindware community.