Posts
All the articles I've posted.
Why don't we have flying cars yet?
Aswath Damodaran sorts ideas into possible, plausible, and probable. Only the last one comes with a number, and that's the test most ideas fail.
Empathy isn't repeating what they just said
Parroting someone's last words kills the conversation. Complex reflection, a careful guess at what sits behind what they said, is what makes people feel understood.
Why does Sam Altman switch notebooks every two weeks?
Working memory holds about three new things for about thirty seconds. Writing is how you get past that limit, and how you keep readers from hitting theirs.
Can't stop checking your phone?
We drop long games because the payoff sits too far away. Cutting them into short games with small rewards is what keeps you in them.
Six words are all you need for empathy
Chase Hughes says everyone wants one of six things, and naming the right one is what makes people feel understood.
The questions that steal an expert's know-how
Gary Klein's Critical Decision Method turns a vague gut feel into two questions anyone can ask.
I picked the worst possible pen name
My pen name loses on Google to a manga character and a decade-old scandal, so I'm giving it up.
How to steal an expert's gut feel
Gary Klein's Recognition-Primed Decision model explains how experts read a messy situation in seconds, and how you can train the same habit.
What losing 3 million won on P2P lending taught me
Philip Tetlock's three patterns of closed thinking, the politician, the preacher and the prosecutor, and the fourth job that gets you out of them.
The Feynman technique: write it out and see what you don't know
Richard Feynman's four-step study method, why it works on memory, and how writing catches the knowledge you only think you have.