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Critical Thinking
Confronting your "absolute stupidity" is a sign you're on course to learning something new and wonderful.
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
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.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
Encouraging thoughtful responses over impulsive reactions can help prevent AI exploitation in decision-making.
Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.
The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
Thinking of a number between one and ten? Here's how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Four startup founders explain how to derive lessons from the past while still looking ahead to what’s possible.
Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.
The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.
Just being a pessimist, cynic, or apathetic doesn't make you a nihilist.
A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
Here's how belief in a higher power can act like a psychological safety net.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Studies claiming to reveal strategies for feeling happy get a second look.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
How to figure out the right amount of time for any project.
Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.
We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.