Paper Session

How it works

One session, start to finish.

You think in pen.

  1. You are mid-task. You and your AI are rebuilding an eight-week course, and week eight lands flat. The new order is your call.

  2. Two pages come out. On the first, your AI’s proposed order sits beside empty lines for yours. The second asks one question. Then it stops:

    Printed. Go think.

  3. You work it in pen, away from the screen. Strike, reorder, circle, write in the margins. One black pen is enough.

  4. You send photos back. The course is rebuilt in your order. Where your pen disagrees with the proposal, your pen wins.

A worksheet with eight machine-proposed course sessions on the left and empty ruled slots on the right
As printed
Two printed pages on a wooden table, worked by hand in black, red, green and blue ink. On one, the eight proposed course sessions are rewritten in a new order in the empty column beside them, one line is circled, and one proposal is struck through with a note to rework it. On the other, a hand-drawn diagram fills the space under a single printed question, one word of which is struck out and replaced.
As photographed

The page leaves the thinking to you.

It can carry work worth reacting to, like that proposed order. Where the call is yours, you get a question and empty space: no example answers, no timer, no score. The pen is the point.

Ask for the session you need.

Borrow a line if all of it is true for you.

The [spring launch] is finished. I have the plan we wrote down before we started and the log of what actually happened, both in this thread. Give me an after-action review on paper.

The [migration plan] is committed and I’m confident in it. It’s a year from now and it has failed completely. Print me the premortem.

You’ve spent this whole session explaining [how the auth flow works] and I stayed with all of it. Close the book. Give me the teach-back sheet.

Every session format, on GitHub

Send the photos to the same chat.

Check the first reply against your page: a misread word looks like a real one. In a fresh chat, paste the scan-back file first.

Try it on the work in front of you.

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