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About the Book
Discover the Hidden Patterns of Revolutionary Thinking
What if the most powerful cognitive frameworks for mastering AI collaboration already exist, but remain invisible to most practitioners?
Beyond Prompt Engineering reveals a set of revolutionary thinking patterns that transformed computing during the Cold War and now hold the key to unlocking unprecedented value from Large Language Models. These patterns exist whether you perceive them or not—like black ice on a winter highway—but once recognized, they transform how you think and collaborate.
While everyone else focuses on perfecting prompts, you'll learn something far more valuable: how to engage in dynamic collaborative dialogues that surface insights neither human nor AI could reach alone.
This book unveils the Ten Revolutionizer Patterns—rarely taught thinking frameworks that enable you to:
- Transform apparent constraints into your greatest advantages
- Perceive systems as wholes rather than collections of components
- Make unexpected connections across domains
- Develop metacognitive awareness of your own thinking processes
- Build comprehensive mental models that integrate diverse knowledge
Through three real-world implementations—a winter mountain ascent, a cognitive computing breakthrough, and early aviation innovation—you'll see these patterns in action across drastically different domains and eras.
Unlike conventional prompt engineering that treats AI as a static tool, this approach teaches you to engage in Socratic dialogue with AI assistants, creating a powerful thinking partnership that amplifies your cognitive capabilities.
Whether you're a developer, researcher, knowledge worker, or simply curious about maximizing AI's potential, these durable skills will maintain their value across technological generations.
Beyond Prompt Engineering provides the missing link between technical capabilities and revolutionary outcomes—revealing patterns hidden in plain sight that will transform not just how you use AI, but how you think.
Note: This book serves as both a standalone guide and a foundation for the forthcoming "Finding Your Route to Mastery" series.
About the Author
Edward Barnard has experienced two consecutive 20-year careers in software development. He soldered together his first computer from a handful of resistors, diodes, switches, and lights in 1968 at age 10. He taught himself FORTRAN IV two years later. High school brought BASIC. College introduced ALGOL, assembly language, and Pascal.
His first career was operating system development amongst the wizards of Cray Research. Ed's second 20-year career has been web software development for countless clients, companies, and projects. He enjoys sharing what he's learned along the way through magazine articles, books, and speaking at conferences. He and wife Susan get outdoors when they can to camp the Minnesota winter with no mosquitoes.