210 – The catalogue of cognitive fallacies
How the mind systematically misleads itself In the spring of 1972, the psychologist Amos Tversky invited… Read more
209 – Knowledge vs. belief
The most important distinction we are probably not making In ordinary conversation, the words “know” and… Read more
208 – Talking across the gap
How to communicate with someone whose framework differs from one’s own at the level of what… Read more
207 – When the map eats itself
A recurring encounter with selective skepticism Over many years and a great many conversations, a pattern… Read more
206 – A myriad of maps
How we hold many contradictory models at once In 1956, the social psychologist Leon Festinger published… Read more
205 -The Dunning-Kruger effect
What the famous finding actually claims, why much of it may be a statistical mirage, and… Read more
204 – Known unknowns and unknown unknowns
The map of what we don’t know In February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, then United States Secretary… Read more
203 – Maps, models, and metaphors
The tools we think with There is a map of London’s Underground railway that has been… Read more
202 – The 7 plus or minus 2 problem
Why the brain is always compressing In the summer of 1956, the cognitive psychologist George Miller… Read more
201 – You have never seen reality
There is an experiment so simple it requires nothing beyond this page. If we hold our… Read more