Most of our choices are made under some uncertainty. Betting on future outcomes forces us to acknowledge our doubts and improves our decisions.
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Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. Try not to be one of them.
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Mental shortcuts are features, not flaws. Biases are rules being used out of context. How can we avoid the pitfalls and make more rational decisions?
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” —Alvin Toffler Learnability is the key to future-proofing your mind. As the job market changes and AI grows more competent, your ability to adapt is of utmost importance. But beyond the capacity…
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There are limits to what we can see. That’s obvious when you consider how much of the light spectrum is invisible to us, or how a speeding car whizzes past only as a blur, or how perceptual illusions make you see things you know aren’t there. Here’s one more example: all the movies and videos…
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Brain-machine interfaces have come a long way in the last decade. Now a group of computer scientists and neuroscientists from the University of San Francisco have taken things a step further. The researchers used two neural networks to decode their participant’s brain activity and determine what they were saying. What they achieved was real-time translation…
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You have to pay attention to your goals if you ever want to achieve them. But while you pay for this attention with your time, there is something else you sacrifice when you decide to attend to something: everything else you could be attending to. When we sit down and write, we are also deciding…
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Ulysses is said to have tied himself to the flagpole of his ship, so that as he sailed past the sirens and heard their beautiful voices, he wouldn’t be able to steer the ship into the rocks trying to find them. When it comes to self-control, tactics of this variety seem to be the most…
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Someone told my younger self I should learn something new every day. The rest of your time can be filled with monotonous activities, but as long as you learn one little thing, you’re growing. Learning one thing a day is a piece of cake now. Considering how easy it is to access to new and…
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The term ‘deepfake’ has only been around a couple of years, but there is a lot of interest—good and bad—in it’s potential. What’s a deepfake? It’s a fake image or video produced using artificial intelligence. Feed enough data into an algorithm, and it will learn to create eerily realistic fabrications of whatever it was trained…
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