Carl Hendrick wrote an article titled Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us (17 April 2025).
Continue reading “The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us”the propensity to produce bullshit and the tendency to fall for bullshit
Shane Littrell, Evan F. Risko, & Jonathan A. Fugelsang of the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) published an article in the British Journal of Social Psychology (Wiley) titled ‘You can’t bullshit a bullshitter’ (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information (4 February 2021).
Continue reading “the propensity to produce bullshit and the tendency to fall for bullshit”Good thinking
Jessica Stillman wrote an article for Inc. titled How Not to Be Stupid, based on advice from psychology professor David Dunning, who is famous for his research known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Continue reading “Good thinking”
I don’t know
Derek Sivers wrote a blog post titled I’m a very slow thinker. Continue reading “I don’t know”
Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit
Ian P. McCarthy, David Hannah, Leyland F. Pitt, and Jane M. McCarthy wrote a paper titled Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit. Continue reading “Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit”
Epistemic Trespassing
Nathan Ballantyne wrote a paper titled Epistemic Trespassing for Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy (Mind, Volume 128, Issue 510, April 2019, Pages 367–395).
« Epistemic trespassers judge matters outside their field of expertise. Trespassing is ubiquitous in this age of interdisciplinary research and recognizing this will require us to be more intellectually modest. » Continue reading “Epistemic Trespassing”
Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place
Shane Parrish wrote an article for Farnam Street titled Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking Continue reading “Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place”
Grey Thinking
Farnham Street posted an article titled The Value of Grey Thinking. Continue reading “Grey Thinking”
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