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Crony beliefs.
Why do we believe crazy things? “Just as money can pervert scientific research, so everyday social incentives have the potential to distort our beliefs.” | learn more
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How people think.
“This article describes 17 of what I think are the most common and influential aspects of how people think. It’s a long post, but each point can be read individually. Skip the ones you don’t agree with and reread the […]
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Newly measured particle seems heavy enough to break known physics.
“Silence fell as the physicists absorbed the answer. They had found that the W boson weighs 80,433 million electron volts (MeV), give or take 9 MeV. That makes it a whopping 76 MeV heavier than the Standard Model predicts, a […]
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Reasonably intelligent people tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is.
“Fortunately, the PISA website has sample math questions from the 2012 assessment, corresponding to each of the six different levels of difficulty, as well as statistics on the percentage of 15-16 year old students from each of the participating countries […]
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Mindblowing lessons from 2 ex-CIA spies.
I don’t know that I’d take the provenance of this information too seriously, but I did find it interesting. | learn more
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95th percentile isn’t that good.
“Reaching 95%-ile isn’t very impressive because it’s not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn’t help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it’s just the opposite: most […]
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Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas.
“The following prompts jostle you out of tiny thinking. Each stretches some dimension of reality to an extreme. So extreme that it is nearly nonsense.” | learn more
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Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
On build vs buy but way broader in scope. “When it comes to buying products and services, at a personal level, most people I know who’ve checked the work of people they’ve hired for things like home renovation or accounting […]
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CMO secrets revealed.
“13 marketing leaders share secrets that will change how you market today.” Okay that headline might oversell it, but this is educational anyway. | learn more
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Five ways to grow through SEO that are not content marketing.
“Yes, we all know that when it comes to Search, original content is king. But there are multiple effective ways to generate quality and original SEO traffic. And some of those ways don’t require writing a single article.” | learn more