Reframing
I love this old Taoist parable: A farmer in a poor village was considered very well-to-do, because he owned a… Read More »Reframing
I love this old Taoist parable: A farmer in a poor village was considered very well-to-do, because he owned a… Read More »Reframing
Learn to ask of all actions, “Why are they doing that?” Starting with your own Marcus Aurelius Acknowledging ignorance The… Read More »Self Awareness
Bayes’ rule (sometimes know as Bayes’ theorem) is a law of probability theory which governs how to revise prior probabilistic beliefs – how much… Read More »Bayes’ Rule
What is The Halo Effect? I wrote about The Halo Effect in Issue #11 of Mental Models Weekly. The Reverse… Read More »The Halo Effect
Doesn’t the word vulnerability get overused now? It’s become so cliche, but that doesn’t mean it’s become unimportant. The risk… Read More »Vulnerability
I focus a lot on being present. Whether with family or friends or even just when alone. Being present I… Read More »Mindfulness
Intuition is not a mystical thing. Expert intuition strikes us as magical, but it is not. Indeed, each of us… Read More »Intuition
If you think about confirmation bias long enough, you start to notice that most platitudes and proverbs have a contradictory… Read More »Contradictory Platitudes
I love optical illusions as a metaphor to remember that perception is not reality. I once thought about getting the… Read More »Illusions
Satificing is one of my favorite mental models. Every day we make so many small low-impact decisions. Learning about “satisficing”… Read More »Satisficing
I love this concept of sensory food. You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you… Read More »Sensory Food
I love the turn of the year. An arbitrary secular forgiveness of sins for the year past, and a fresh… Read More »New Year’s Resolutions
Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz I read widely. I am old enough to have grown… Read More »Reading
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