Verifying Believability
Believability is a heuristic for practical advice. Here's one surprising way that it can fail.
Believability is a heuristic for practical advice. Here's one surprising way that it can fail.
Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.
How to hunt for useful expertise research, emotional regulation work, or better learning techniques, straight from the primary literature.
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Why bother learning history, when history isn't likely to repeat itself? We take a look at what Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the best way to learn from other people's experiences.
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Game analogies can be helpful when you're playing to win. But there's a limit to how useful they can be when thinking about life.
There's a saying commonly attributed to Charlie Munger that goes 'Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously'. Work out all the implications. Seek out all the case studies. Here's a story of two investors who did exactly that.