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Psychology & Mind

Why people believe things, want things, and get things wrong.

22 essays

Graham Duncan · 2023

What's going on here, with this human?

Adam Mastroianni · 2022

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Dan Luu · 2021

Willingness to Look Stupid

Neil Kakkar · 2020

Paul Graham · 2020

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

Morgan Housel · 2020

100 Little Ideas

Nick Commarata · 2019

Everything is Fertile

Andy Matuschak · 2019

Why books don't work

Nadia Asparouhova · 2019

The tyranny of ideas

Scott Alexander · 2018

Conflict vs. Mistake

Michael Nielsen · 2018

Augmenting Long-term Memory

Julia Galef · 2017

Unpopular ideas about social norms

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2017

John Salvatier · 2017

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

Kevin Simler · 2016

Tim Urban · 2014

Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think

Noah Smith · 2013

A few thoughts on depression

Kevin Simler · 2013

Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct

Joshua Wolf Shenk · 2009

What Makes Us Happy?

Venkatesh Rao · 2009

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

Douglas R. Hofstadter · 2001

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Daniel F. Chambliss · 1989

The Mundanity of Excellence

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