The fact that it took Galileo to redefine our thinking about motion and intelligent people from Aristotle and onward had thought about how things moved in the world and gotten it totally wrong suggests that motion is not so simple.
Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. But software thinking has also been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time.
Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true?
Many pilots rely on self selected enthusiasts, vendor methodologies, and rough time saved calculations rather than robust measures of service quality or error rates.
History books say they caused the Black Death — although recent scientific evidence disputes that claim. In an updated episode from 2025, we ask: Is the rat a scapegoat?
You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.
What's happened in the US over the last many decades is that these really important identities like racial and religious identities have become associated in our minds with our party identity. So when we go vote in an election, we're not just feeling like our party wins or loses, we're feeling like our party and our racial group and our religious group and all these big parts of what makes us who we are, all of those things get wrapped up in the outcome of the election also.
Zemblanity is when something unlucky, unwanted or undesired happens by design because it's already built in. It seems unexpected and like bad luck, but in hindsight it was to be expected and avoidable.
What if the problem is not so much about how unreliable eyewitness memory is, because of how easily contamination can create false memories, and more about how and when we test the witness's memory.
Jones wasn't necessarily explicitly telling us to lie. I think if he was doing that, he wouldn't have as many people working for him because there was this pretend idea that we were searching for the truth. He more so undermined us, made us question our own findings, made us question our own abilities, our own competence.
It's really amazing that he doesn't want other inputs like that may vary from his rich friends. It's just I find it it's just not good policy not to have people who doubt each other and debate it.
Our brain is like our very own Stradivarius. When our emotions are triggered out of proportions, that's akin to me trying to play a Stradivarius violin. It can cause enormous pain for both the player as well as those around us.
Our minds are black boxes to each other. I think if we actually switched consciousnesses, if we had like a Freaky Friday situation, initially we'd be totally lost in the wilderness.
What I think this whole milk craze really boils down to is this philosophical belief that what is natural is best... the push for drinking whole milk is tied to this much broader view that the Trump administration espouses, which is that America can be great again if we can go back to this imagined historical era where the cows were roaming in the pastures.
Language can be used to build a following, how words can be used to divide people into an us versus them mindset, and actually shape people's perception of reality
Our minds are black boxes to each other. I think if we actually switched consciousnesses, if we had, like, a Freaky Friday situation, initially we'd be totally lost in the wilderness.
Having a lot of data about your health can, first of all, make you kind of obsess over that data. A lot of these companies give you numbers like you'll get a sleep score or you'll get like a readiness score or a strain score and it's like a game.
Prediction market players want to be the news, and they've even devised new, frankly unconvincing frameworks for why they should be considered legitimate sources of information — instead of just anything-goes casinos.
Women have long been more likely than men to struggle with or being diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Men are certainly reporting anxiety and depression more now, but to Faith's point, I think that's getting a lot of attention because that's a change, but that doesn't mean that women are thriving or are not struggling with depression and anxiety in the same way that they have been for decades.
I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.
this is a regime that um is essentially a death cult and doesn't have the same motivations as a normal regime has. They view the death of their own people, the martyrdom of their people as a sign of their own sacredness and righteousness.
You sound smarter when you catastrophize. It sounds scarier and more interesting. And you put some bar charts around you talking about the zombie apocalypse in a downward spiral doom loop.
