Cognitive Velocity: How to Accelerate Your Thinking with AI Systems
About this ebook
Cognitive Velocity introduces a radical new framework for thinking in the age of AI—not faster, but deeper, more recursive, and intellectually antifragile. Designed for high-agency scholars, builders, and strategists, this book rejects surface-level prompt hacks and instead maps how to use AI as a mirror, debugger, and second cognition.
You’ll learn how to:
Replace traditional peer review with engineered resistance
Build recursive prompt loops that rewire your intellectual process
Use friction as a design principle, not a flaw
Measure your own epistemic evolution using the Cognitive Growth Index (CGI)
This isn’t about letting AI think for you. It’s about designing how you think—deliberately, iteratively, and with velocity. If you’ve sensed you’re getting smarter with AI but couldn’t explain how, this book gives you the language, structure, and tools to prove it.
Forget co-authorship. This is self-recoding!
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About the author
Prof. Prince Sarpong is Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Financial Planning Law, University of the Free State, and a post‑disciplinary systems architect whose work spans corporate finance, financial psychology, AI epistemics, and institutional behaviour.
He has developed several pioneering frameworks, including Brittle Financial Health, Antifragile Financial Therapy, Institutional Financial Therapy, and the Cognitive Growth Index (CGI), a generative AI model for mapping intellectual recursion and adaptive cognition.
His broader intellectual ecosystem, Sarpong Strategia, anchors a set of transdisciplinary ventures: the Centre for Financial Psychology and Systems (CFPS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa; Financial Therapy for Men Inc. and Fortis Strategia LLC in Sacramento, California; and Applied AI Epistemics, a research lab focusing on epistemic research and reform in the age of artificial intelligence.
He currently serves on the advisory board of AI 2030, a Washington, DC–based global nonprofit for responsible AI; a member of the Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Financial Therapy Association in the US; and is a member of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa.
Prof Sarpong’s current work confronts the limits of traditional disciplinary boundaries by designing systems that metabolize pressure into structure, across money, identity, capital, and corporate leadership.
