S1-207 – When the map eats itself
A recurring encounter with selective skepticism Over many years and a great many conversations, a pattern… Read more
S1-206 – A myriad of maps
How we hold many contradictory models at once In 1956, the social psychologist Leon Festinger published… Read more
S1-205 -The Dunning-Kruger effect
What the famous finding actually claims, why much of it may be a statistical mirage, and… Read more
S1-204 – Known unknowns and unknown unknowns
The map of what we don’t know In February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, then United States Secretary… Read more
S1-203 – Maps, models, and metaphors
The tools we think with There is a map of London’s Underground railway that has been… Read more
S1-202 – 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
S1-201 – You have never seen reality
There is an experiment so simple it requires nothing beyond this page. If we hold our… Read more
S1-102 – What is a model
Explanatory power, prediction, and the art of knowing the limits There is a map of the… Read more
S1-101 – We are all living inside models
An introduction to The Conscious Look There is an experiment any of us can run right… Read more