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Jul 16, 2025
The Courage to Be Disliked
book
stone
Jul 15, 2025
"Because" justification
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Action bias - look active, even if it achieves nothing
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Affect heuristic - you are a slave to your emotions
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Alternative blindness - we forget the next-best alternative
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Alternative paths - risk is not directly visible
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Ambiguity aversion - known probabilities are preferred over unknown ones
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Anchoring - we use anchors when estimating, even when unnecessary
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Association bias - experience can damage your judgment
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Attitude and behavior are shaped by perception
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Authority bias - we are reluctant to disobey authority
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Availability bias - we prefer a wrong map to none at all
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Base-rate neglect - when you hear hoofbeats do not expect a zebra
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Beginner's luck - watch and wait before drawing conclusions
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Chauffeur knowledge - do not take news anchors seriously
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Cherry picking - drawing the bull's-eye around the arrow
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Clustering illusion - we are oversensitive to pattern recognition
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Cognitive biases
signpost
Jul 15, 2025
Cognitive dissonance
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Coincidence - the inevitability of unlikely events
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Confirmation bias - beware the special case
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Conjunction fallacy - when a subset seems larger than the entire set
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Contagion bias
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Contrast effect - human perception is based on relative comparisons
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Decision fatigue - willpower is a battery
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Default effect - you can change human behavior with a default setting
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Domain dependence - knowledge is nontransferable
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Don't let perfect be the enemy of great - maximizers and satsificers
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Déformation professionnelle - if your only tool is a hammer, all your problems will be nails
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Effort justification - when you put a lot of energy into a task, you tend to overvalue the result
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Endowment effect - we cling to things
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Envy - comparison is the thief of joy
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Expectations influence perception
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Exponential growth - we don't have any intuition for exponential growth rates
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Fallacy of the single cause - we tend to hunt for scapegoats
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
False causality - correlation is not causality
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
False-consensus effect - we overestimate unanimity with others
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Falsification of history - we adjust past views to suit us
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Faulty logic arises from fast thinking - slow down
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Fear of regret - last chances make us panic
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Feature-positive effects - checklists are deceiving
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Forecast illusion - false prophets
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Forer effect, Barnum effect - how to expose a charlatan
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Framing - it is not what you say, but how you say it
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Fundamental attribution error - we tend to overestimate individuals' influence
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Gambler's fallacy - there is no balancing force for independent events
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Groupthink
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Halo effect
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Hedonic treadmill - money can't buy happiness
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Heuristics - decision-making shortcuts
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Hindsight bias - why you should keep a diary
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
House-money effect - "free" money is treated more frivolously
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Hyperbolic discounting - "now" makes us impatient
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Illusion of attention - we only see what we're focusing on
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Illusion of control
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Illusion of skill - neither skills nor toil are key criteria for success
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
In-group out-group bias - prejudice and aversion are biological responses to anything foreign
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Inability to close doors - choose what not to engage in, options come at a price
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Incentive super-response tendency - never pay your lawyer by the hour
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Inductive thinking - always has doesn't mean always will
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Information bias - more information doesn't mean better decisions
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Intention-to-treat error - test subjects can vanish from the sample
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Introspection illusion - nothing is more convincing than your own beliefs
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Jung's Map of the Soul
book
stone
Jul 15, 2025
Liking bias - amiability works better than bribery
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Loss aversion - we fear loss more than we value gain
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Motivation crowding - monetary incentives crowd out all others
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Neglect of probability - we have no intuitive grasp of risk
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Neomania - we are drawn to newness
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
News illusion - the news distorts our worldviews
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Not-invented-here syndrome - we think anything we create ourselves is unbeatable
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Olympian archetypes
stone
Jul 15, 2025
Omission bias - causing harm through inaction is better than through action
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Out-group homogeneity bias - you perceive people outside your own group to be more similar than they actually are
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Outcome bias - we evaluate decisions based on result rather than process
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Overconfidence effect - we systematically overestimate our knowledge and our ability to predict
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Overthinking - thinking too much stunts intuition
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Paradox of choice - less is more
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Personification - statistics don't stir us, people do
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Planning fallacy - we overestimate our ability to get stuff done
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Primacy and recency effects - first impressions are deceiving
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Procrastination - placing more value on the present at the expense of the future
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Psychological time perspective
stone
Jul 15, 2025
Reciprocity - do not accept free drinks
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Regression to mean
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Salience effect - outstanding features receive more attention than they deserve
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Scarcity error - rare is valuable
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Self-selection bias
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Self-serving bias - we attribute success to ourselves and failures to external factors
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Sleeper effect - the source of an argument fades faster than the argument
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Social comparison bias - we take aim at young guns
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Social loafing - when people work together, individual performances decrease
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Social proof - herd instinct
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Stage migration - changing categories to manipulate averages
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Status quo bias - if it ain't broke, don't fix it
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Story bias - stories are more important than facts
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Strategic misrepresentation - the more at stake, the more exaggerated your assertions become
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Sunk cost fallacy - why you should forget the past
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Survivorship bias - triumph is more visible than failure
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Swimmer's body illusion - we confuse selection factors with results
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
The Art of Thinking Clearly
book
stone
Jul 15, 2025
The Autistic's Guide to Self Discovery
book
stone
Jul 15, 2025
The Black Swan - unthinkable events can massively affect you
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
The Eternal Drama - The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology
book
stone
Jul 15, 2025
The law of small numbers - small sample sizes give statistically insignificant results
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
The problem with averages - averages often mask underlying distribution
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Twaddle tendency - jabber disguises ignorance
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Volunteer's folly - hands-on volunteering often does not make as big of an impact as helping through one's expertise
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Why We Sleep
book
in-progress
stone
Jul 15, 2025
Winner's curse
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Zeigarnik effect - outstanding tasks gnaw at us
sapling
Jul 15, 2025
Zero-risk bias
sapling