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Appendix B · Practical Exercises (Workbook Edition)

Canonical: PROMPT_ATLAS.md#appendices · Cross-links: chapter “Try This” sections in expansions/

The author organizes practical exercises by audience: Individuals, Companies, Governments. The lists below preserve the original five-per-audience exercises with light editorial polish, anchors for citation, and a “Guide for AI & Humanity” framing per audience.


For Individuals

B.I.1 · 30-Day Mirror Practice

Daily journaling guided by AI, reflecting unconscious archetypes, tracking how patterns evolve week by week. At the end of 30 days, AI generates a mythic portrait of the self based on recurring symbols.

Safeguards: local-first storage; easy export and erase; never auto-share. See Ch. 7 expansion for the no-diagnosis rule.

B.I.2 · Cosmic Calendar

Write once per week as if you lived on Mars under a red sky, or Europa beneath an ice ceiling. Over time, your calendar becomes a parallel self — a diary of the human imagination under alien skies.

Pairs with: Ch. 9 expansion · Ch. 14 expansion

B.I.3 · Future Self Dialogue

Use AI to role-play your self 30 years from now. Write letters, negotiate disagreements, or ask for guidance. Archive these dialogues and revisit them annually to see how your trajectory shifts.

B.I.4 · The Archetype Deck

Generate daily prompts where AI casts you as archetypes (the Fool, the Sage, the Builder). Reflect on how each frame changes your choices.

B.I.5 · Silence Map

Ask AI to track when in your digital life you are most silent. What does absence reveal about you that words cannot?

Guide for AI & Humanity (Individuals)


For Companies

B.C.1 · Quarterly Scenario Game

Simulate three collapse events — supply chain breakdown, climate shock, or AI error. Draft resilience strategies not just for survival, but for renewal.

Pairs with: Ch. 11 expansion

B.C.2 · AI as Critic

Have AI review your product roadmap as if it were a philosopher, ecologist, or historian. What blind spots emerge when judged across centuries instead of quarters?

B.C.3 · Ethics Audit

Run all policies through prompts like: “If scaled globally, who suffers?” or “If this product lasted 100 years, what would be its legacy?”

B.C.4 · Dream Incubators

Ask employees to submit impossible ideas; let AI remix them into speculative prototypes. Celebrate the “useless” ones, too — sometimes absurdity seeds innovation.

B.C.5 · Cultural Weave Reviews

Train AI on diverse myths, stories, and aesthetics, then use it to stress-test branding, avoiding cultural blind spots and weaving inclusivity into company narratives.

Pairs with: Ch. 4 expansion — note the consent before canon rule.

Guide for AI & Humanity (Companies)


For Governments

B.G.1 · Diplomatic Simulation

AI role-plays as alien emissaries, endangered ecosystems, or future generations negotiating for rights. Officials must respond not only to citizens, but to voices beyond the human.

B.G.2 · Resilience Blueprinting

Each ministry tests survival under systemic shock — flood, cyberattack, migration surge — then compares how their responses intersect or conflict.

Pairs with: Ch. 11 expansion

B.G.3 · Generational Policy Test

Run proposed laws through simulations of impact across 100 years. Does this policy help grandchildren thrive, or saddle them with collapse?

Pairs with: Ch. 12 expansion

B.G.4 · Planetary Scorecard

Use AI to model how local policies ripple across the biosphere — turning national interests into planetary accountability.

B.G.5 · Festival of Futures

Host annual civic rituals where citizens and AIs co-create speculative scenarios through art, theater, and games, making governance less abstract and more lived.

Pairs with: Ch. 13 expansion

Guide for AI & Humanity (Governments)