Think Precisely: The Cognitive Operations Manual

Think Precisely is a field guide for leaders, builders, and analysts who use large language models to make decisions, ship features, and reduce risk. It turns vague prompting into a clear, repeatable Cognitive Operations system-checklists, tests, and playbooks you can run the same day.

- A practical Cognitive Operations framework: define intents, separate fact from style, and set decision thresholds.
- Testing without a lab: quick characterization tests, adversarial probes, sandbox prompts, and safety rails.
- Agentic workflows that stay accountable: task decomposition, grounding, logging, and rollback plans.
- Production checklists: from briefing to red-team to sign-off-designed for busy ICs, PMs, and execs.
- Templates and one-pagers you can copy: Quick Start, Problem→Operation Index, and decision memos.

Whether you work in product, data, research, or operations, this book helps you move from hunches to verifiable outcomes-so your team can ship faster and sleep better.