Building a Cognitive Toolbox
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The 2nd law of thermodynamics is a crazy thing to fathom. It can be stated about a thousand different ways, like “No process is possible whose sole result is the transfer of heat from a body of lower...
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Religions are great in many ways. They bring people together, encourage them to do good, explore history and philosophy, contain rich metaphors and symbolism, ritualize important activities, cultivate...
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Don’t panic. You’re not going to die just by thinking about death. But you might start living. Nothing could be more consequential for our lives than our understanding of death. Every decision we make...
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Using language is tricky business. It seems so natural to us that we rarely think about it. We make these noises at one another and somehow deduce what the other is thinking. We associate sound...
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This is one of the biggest lessons I learned from Antifragile by Nassim Taleb: any time you model for a risk, your model has some unknown errors (because you don’t perfectly understand the universe)....
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