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Develop Honest Bias If you take nothing else away from this chapter, take these four steps on the path toward developing honest bias. STEP 1: Opt-in. Developing honest bias requires us first and forem

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Home / Featured Content / Can Disagreement Be Productive? The answer is as old as Socrates: Yes. November 29, 2019 by Michael Shammas I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab

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One’s understanding of science is intertwined with, but distinguishable from, one’s view of reality at large. There’s the classical distinction made between physics (the study of the natural realm and

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“I t’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man

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Published in Conscious Paradoxalism · 5 min read · Apr 3, 2019 -- Paradox underlies all creative forces. The elimination of paradox creates equilibrium, and equilibrium is death. The Renaissance was d

We’ve been told for years now that what our parents and kindergarten teachers told us is not, in fact, true — we are not each and every one of us special unique snowflakes destined for greatness. In t

This is a lengthy discussion, so I’ll begin with a summary. The basic idea in this post is to consider capitalism as a highly efficient objective function (or “AI”) with its parameters optimized for t

Even if you're not aware of it, it's likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today. This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. "If someone smiles

I. An Angry Little Town Soon after the snows of 1977 began to thaw, the residents of Greenfield, Massachusetts, received a strange questionnaire in the mail. “Try to recall the number of times you bec

There is, apparently, an increase recently in interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect . The Washington Post writes about this recently , making the obvious political observation (having to do with the c

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T he first time I found myself facing a political dilemma was in the year 1976; I was 5 years old. My parents were what we used to call “movement people,” veterans of the civil rights movement who lea

In the 1970s, a Japanese farmer discovered a better way to do something—by not doing it. In the introduction to Masasobu Fukuoka’s One-Straw Revolution, Frances Moore Lappé describes the farmer’s mome

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Feed There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological

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Resisting Reduction Designing our Complex Future with Machines Review, research and editing team: Catherine Ahearn , Chia Evers , Natalie Saltiel , Andre Uhl While I had long been planning to write a

44 min read · Jun 30, 2017 -- This is the transcript of a keynote talk I gave at EYEO 2017 in Minneapolis. An adapted version appears in my book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. I’

Hybrids, 1990s net art, and a giant floating worm 27 min read · Nov 2, 2018 -- All images: Jenny Odell, except where noted. The following is an adapted transcript of a presentation I gave at KIKK 2018

Psychotherapy Rational emotive behavior therapy ( REBT ), previously called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy , is an active-directive, philosophically and empirically based psychotherapy

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Every cognitive bias exists for a reason—primarily to save our brains time or energy. I’ve spent many years referencing Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases whenever I have a hunch that a certain type

By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) wh

Dear Joseph, My father often peppers his speech with declarations like “Obama is a Marxist” or “Eighty percent of Americans don’t pay taxes.” I can sometimes leave the conversation and look up details

Charles Chu Jul 8, 2018 · 11 min read Here’s something that took me half a decade to figure out: It is really, really, really hard to be right. If you want to be right all the time, go be an accountant. The rest of us — paleontologists, internet dating specialists, serial entrepreneurs (read:…