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One of Shannon’s go-to tricks was to restructure and contrast the problem in as many different ways as possible. This could mean exaggerating it, minimizing it, changing the words of how it is stated, reframing the angle from where it is looked at, and inverting it.
Claude Shannon: How a Real Genius Solves Problems
Zat Rana
Availability Bias
Humans evaluate situations based on the most readily available data, which tends to be what can be immediately recalled from memory.
This is how the news cycle impacts our thinking. Its persistent negativity cements a belief that the world is a dark place.
Cognitive Biases Are Sys...
@SahilBloom on Twitter
The Immortality Project: Civilization is an elaborate attempt to distract ourselves from the fact that we're all going to die. We do this by trying to become symbolic beings rather than physical ones. Hence, the endless search for meaning.
My Peoples, the Time Has...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
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