Believe Experiences, Not Explanations
Experiences and explanations are separate things, and we have better reasons to think people understand their own experiences than that they reached the right explanations for those expereiences.
Uri
Loud & Wrong
Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
Should Have Kissed Her
Maybe you should have, but people's expressed regrets have nothing to do with it.
Everyday Meditation Objects
You can meditate on coffee cup lids, it's legal and no-one can stop you
Pushing Bundles Of Thoughts Out Your Mouth
On some level, the entire problem of communication is the difficulty of pushing complex bundles of inter-related thoughts through your mouth.
University as a Service
American Universities sell an ongoing service that alumni receive for the rest of their lives, co-creating the good with other people who've paid a costly signal of their commitment to it.
The Longer It Takes, The Longer-Longer It Takes
So many things takes longer than they should, but longer-taking things take longer-longer
Believe Everything
Something I heard recently is that your brain processes new information by first temporarily believing it and then, if necessary, disconfirming it. So if you're told something false, you'll very briefly believe it – try it on for size, I guess -- before tagging it as inconsistent
Uninterrupted Work
Why exactly do various tasks suffer so much if you're interrupted?
Psychological Debt
In coding there's an idea called "technical debt." The same exists for psychology -- spend now, pay later....