Practice

Is the AI I'm using honest about what it doesn't know?

Discover how to evaluate the trustworthiness of AI tools in your workflow by examining critical limitations and honesty through ancient wisdom.

Laoziguide

What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Laozi. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Laozi, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Laozi

Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.

Understand first

Non-Action in Tool Selection Effortless Efficiency Through Alignment Becoming Invisible to Your Tools Temporal Flow and Processing Speed The Paradox of AI Capability Limits

Go deeper

Your AI defaults and what they reveal The hardware beneath the intelligence The cost of capability: what you trade for a frontier model The tool that knows its place Multimodal AI: seeing is not understanding

Peri

New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.