26 Rules to Be a Better Thinker in 2026

Opens with Robert Greene's reflection that if he'd had ChatGPT at 19, the ten hours he spent translating a paragraph of Thucydides — and the character, patience, and discipline that built — would have been "annihilated." Holiday uses this as the frame for 26 rules to think better in the AI era: do the slow, friction-rich work yourself (he still researches on physical notecards), protect the thinking process, sit with frustration, and resist letting fast tools substitute for the messy struggle that produces real understanding.