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Spooky Coincidences?

Vsauce · 3 min read

“Spooky coincidences” feel eerie because pattern-hungry brains are wired to find meaning in noise—and because the world contains so many...

ApopheniaPhonetic PalindromesSelection Bias

The Most Common Cognitive Bias

Veritasium · 2 min read

A simple three-number puzzle exposes a common cognitive bias: people latch onto an early guess and then keep generating answers that confirm it, even...

Cognitive BiasConfirmation BiasScientific Method

The Future Of Reasoning

Vsauce · 3 min read

Reasoning isn’t just a private mental superpower; it’s a social technology that evolved to help groups coordinate under uncertainty. That matters now...

ReasoningHyperobjectsConfirmation Bias

Everything You Believe Is Based on What You've Been Told

Pursuit of Wonder · 2 min read

Beliefs about how the world works—time, history, bodies, the universe, even morality—often rest less on direct evidence than on authority, tradition,...

Epistemic HumilityAuthority and ExpertiseLogical Fallacies

Why Dumb People Feel So Smart | The Dunning–Kruger Effect

Einzelgänger · 3 min read

Confidence often outruns competence: people with little real understanding can sound certain, recruit others with the same gaps, and lock in beliefs...

Dunning–Kruger EffectConfidence HeuristicConfirmation Bias

Literature notes are a waste of time?

Martin Adams · 2 min read

Literature notes can feel like an unnecessary extra step—especially when fleeting notes pile up faster than they can be turned into permanent work....

Literature NotesFleeting NotesTime Boxing

Why Your Second Brain Does Not Work: How to Think with Clarity? (logseq)

Priscilla Xu · 3 min read

A “second brain” system fails when it treats thinking like a detached, purely mental process—without accounting for how cognition is shaped by the...

Embodied CognitionSecond BrainEpistemic Disclosure