Topic
psychology
- L’appétit Vient en Mangeant
From Stephan Ango: There’s a French expression I like: L’appétit vient en mangeant Appetite comes when you eat. Nibble and your appetite will grow. Appetite can be the hunger for any kind of thing, not just food. Some…
- The Low-Code IKEA Effect
I linked a few days ago to Packy McCormick's piece Excel Never Dies, which went deep on Microsoft Excel, the springboard for a thousand internet businesses over the last 30 years. "Low-code" techniques in software hav…
- The Heaving Sea of Twitter
Great piece from Tanner Greer on the evolution of online discourse from the early days of the internet to today's firestorm of Twitter. First, a fond look back on the early days of online conversation — the days of th…
- Three Languages
The economist Arnold Kling is a regular on EconTalk. This interview discussion revisits his 2013 book, The Three Languages of Politics in light of the current political landscape. In the current media landscape, ampli…
- Signaling as a Service
Great post from Julian Lehr analyzing aspects of signaling and how it applies to consumption, education, and charity.
- 100 Little Ideas
Ideas, quips, and heuristics from Morgan Housel. Base-Rate Neglect: Assuming the success rate of everyone who’s done what you’re about to try doesn’t apply to you, caused by overestimating the extent to which you do t…
- Daniel Kahneman on AI Podcast
I don't know what Lex Fridman is doing to recruit the guests he gets on his show (The Artificial Intelligence Podcast), but it's one of the best technical podcasts out there. This one is a good introduction to the wor…
- Rory Sutherland on Alchemy
This is a great conversation from EconTalk with advertising exec Rory Sutherland on his new book Alchemy. He's got interesting ideas on the role of psychology and human emotion when it comes to decision making, market…
- Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding
“Waldenponding” is a phrase coined by Rao to describe the growing backlash movement against hyperconnectedness, driving people to disconnect completely and long for a life of lower information overload and deeper mean…
- What's Your Delta?
On comparing yourself to others: We all have a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. You have one. I have one. And this story is what we use to judge our successes and our failures. But it’s not the only story that…
- David Deppner on Leadership, Confidence, and Humility
I thought this was a fantastic interview on EconTalk. David Deppner is a listener of the podcast that sent Russ a thought-provoking email question on the subject of leadership and what traits make for "good" qualities…
- Weekend Reading: Intellectual Humility, Scoping, and Gboard
🛤 Missing the Light at the End of the Tunnel Honest postmortems are insightful to get the inside backstory on what happened behind the scenes with a company. In this one, Jason Crawford goes into what went wrong with…
- Caution on Bias Arguments
Ever since reading Kahneman's Thinking Fast, and Slow, biases are always in the front of mind when considering approaches to problems. Scott Alexander has some interesting thoughts on this topic, namely that bias is e…
- Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind was one of my favorite recent nonfiction books I've read in the last few years. It's one of the most objective, deep analyses of a question that's interested me for years: why do pe…
- Intuition, Expertise, and Learning
The legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman (author of Thinking, Fast and Slow in his wheelhouse, talking about human biases, decision making, and signal vs. noise.
- The High Road
A great reminder for those of us that can get spun up and anxious about the unimportant, from Shane Parrish: When people are rude, our subconscious interprets it as an assault on hierarchy instincts. Our evolutionary…