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Cognitive Bias
The Japanese practice of "tsundoku" bestows joy and lasting benefits to those who make books an important part of their lives.
"For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD."
By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.
Magicians use “change blindness” to delight audiences — and you can use it to become an excellent colleague.
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
Can we learn to always look on the bright side of life?
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
How black and white is your thinking?
Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
From flow to emotional intelligence, these insightful books feature actionable advice you can try out today.
Beer before wine and you'll feel fine? Well, it depends.
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren't worth that much.
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the "silent evidence."
We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.
AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.
In the land of the double-blind, impartiality is king.
From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.