S1-213 – Mapping the unknown
Practical strategies for seeing how much we don’t know Ask people what diabetes is, and most… Read more
S1-212 – Knowing the name vs. knowing the thing
Three levels of understanding and why most of us live at the first When Richard Feynman… Read more
S1-211 – Merit beliefs and crony beliefs
Why the strength of a conviction is not evidence of its truth Think about the last… Read more
S1-210 – The catalogue of cognitive fallacies
How the mind systematically misleads itself In the spring of 1972, the psychologist Amos Tversky invited… Read more
S1-209 – Knowledge vs. belief
The most important distinction we are probably not making In ordinary conversation, the words “know” and… Read more
S1-208 – Talking across the gap
How to communicate with someone whose framework differs from one’s own at the level of what… Read more
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