Aug 25

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.

3 min read Uri

Aug 12

Loud & Wrong

Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.

2 min read Uri

Aug 4

Should Have Kissed Her

Maybe you should have, but people's expressed regrets have nothing to do with it.

3 min read Uri

Jul 19

Everyday Meditation Objects

You can meditate on coffee cup lids, it's legal and no-one can stop you

1 min read Uri

Jul 5

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.

3 min read Uri

Jun 23

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.

2 min read Uri

Jun 15

The Longer It Takes, The Longer-Longer It Takes

So many things takes longer than they should, but longer-taking things take longer-longer

3 min read Uri

May 31

Believe Everything

Something I heard recently is that your brain processes new information by first temporarily believing it and then, if necessary,

2 min read Uri

May 17

Uninterrupted Work

Why exactly do various tasks suffer so much if you're interrupted?

5 min read Uri

May 3

Psychological Debt

In coding there's an idea called "technical debt." The same exists for psychology -- spend now, pay later....

3 min read Uri