I wanted to write about how Claude helps me think. I knew the insight was there — something about questions, about blind spots — but when I sat down to write, I couldn't find the words.
There's a specific kind of frustration: you have a thought that feels fully formed, almost obvious, but the moment you try to explain it, it dissolves. The shape was never as clear as you assumed. Worse, you don't know what you don't know — the blind spots sit outside your peripheral vision by definition.
So I asked Claude to help me write this post. But instead of generating a draft, it asked questions. "What's the ONE insight?" I said something about articulating fuzzy thoughts and closing blind spots. "Give me a specific example." I couldn't. I knew the pattern was real — I'd felt it — but I couldn't point to a single moment.
Then Claude asked: "Has anything in THIS interview made you think differently?" And there it was. The example wasn't in my memory. The example was happening in real time. The questions themselves were doing the work I was trying to describe.
This post exists because Claude didn't write it for me. It asked until I found it myself. That's the pattern: not a tool that generates, but a partner that extracts.