Frequently asked questions about thinking, epistemology, and cognitive tools. 3434 answers
When the same structure appears three or more times, treat it as a pattern worth naming — not a coincidence to dismiss.
When the same structure appears three or more times, treat it as a pattern worth naming — not a coincidence to dismiss.
Many personal patterns follow weekly, monthly, or seasonal cycles that become invisible when you only think in linear time.
Recurring dynamics in relationships reveal your relational templates.
Recurring dynamics in relationships reveal your relational templates.
Deliberately choosing what information you consume is as important as choosing what food you eat — because your inputs shape the quality of every thought you produce.
Everyone has specific recurring distortions — identify yours. Generic bias literacy is not enough. You need a personal bias profile: the particular set of systematic errors your brain commits most frequently, in the specific domains where those errors cost you the most.
Everyone has specific recurring distortions — identify yours. Generic bias literacy is not enough. You need a personal bias profile: the particular set of systematic errors your brain commits most frequently, in the specific domains where those errors cost you the most.
The structures and incentives of an organization determine individual action more than personality does.
A failure you analyze in writing becomes data. A failure you only remember becomes shame.
Dividing things into only two groups forces a false simplicity.
Tracing a chain of causes and effects reveals the full mechanism behind an outcome.
Multiple paths between important nodes make a system more robust.
When your prediction is wrong you have learned something about where your schema is off.
Looking for evidence that supports your schema is not the same as rigorously testing it.
You can build schemas at different levels of abstraction each serving different purposes.
Concepts are nodes and relationships are edges — together they form a graph.
Concepts are nodes and relationships are edges — together they form a graph.
Areas where connections should exist but do not indicate knowledge gaps.
Something can be true now and have been false before without contradiction.
Something can be true now and have been false before without contradiction.
When an agent fails to fire or produces bad results you learn how to improve it.
Internal triggers are thoughts and feelings — external triggers are events and cues.
Internal triggers are thoughts and feelings — external triggers are events and cues.