Ms.Rational @msrational

Synapses and Silicon Joined August 2014

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Ms.Rational @msrational

8 months ago

Do you know what you know? confidence.success-equation.com

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

2 years ago

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. [Link below.]

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Anne Chovy @AnneChovy2

2 years ago

just learned about recency bias and its my favorite thing ever

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Frederik Gieschen @FrederikNeckar

4 years ago

Buffett: “What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.”

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Ms.Rational @msrational

4 years ago

Evolution in Action m.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4N…

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Ms.Rational @msrational

5 years ago

"Ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere." @jonronson

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VV @visualizevalue

5 years ago

Reminder.

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@jackbutcher @jackbutcher

5 years ago

gm to everyone changing their mind based on new information

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown

7 years ago

New video! Bayes' theorem, and making probability intuitive. I had fun bringing in some Kahneman and Tversky results to show where human intuition seems to jive with probability, and where it doesn't. youtu.be/HZGCoVF3YvM

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Shane Parrish @shaneparrish

6 years ago

The cost of making decisions to please others instead of yourself is misery.

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Ms.Rational @msrational

5 years ago

Imagine you are in a room with 100 strangers similar to your peers and neighbours. Based solely on your own instinct, perceptions, and self-reflection, answer the following questions. thanaverage.xyz

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Ms.Rational @msrational

6 years ago

“The problem with making decisions, financial or otherwise, comes down to the fact that the past provides an incomplete guide because the future is always and forever unknowable.” awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/10/the-di…

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Lisa Feldman Barrett @LFeldmanBarrett

6 years ago

"The best way to stick to a New Year's resolution is to practice it in advance." This and other tips for your predicting brain in @CNN Health. #Neuroscience #NewYearsResolutions cnn.com/2020/12/30/hea…

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Kpaxs @Kpaxs

7 years ago

People prefer unhappiness over uncertainty.

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Kpaxs @Kpaxs

7 years ago

Be the person you want to be for the first 60 minutes of each morning. It will change your life.

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The Charlieton @TheCharlieton

8 years ago

Ogilvy’s favorite ad format: - Photo at the top - Headline of up to 9 words - 240 words of copy at bottom “Readers look first at the illustration, then the head, then at the copy. This order follows the normal order of scanning, from top to bottom” Also the format of FB ads!

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Shane Parrish @shaneparrish

7 years ago

Smart people never reward solving a problem that should have been avoided in the first place.

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Ms.Rational @msrational

7 years ago

“There are almost always other emotional things at play that get in the way of the logic and don't allow it to be heard.” inc.com/james-sudakow/…

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

7 years ago

Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology of Yeast - Jens Nielsen🤯youtube.com/watch?v=mL6Nwb… (the whole channel is quite good). Bio will grow into a major tech stack. We're writing assembly today, but when the AWS is up things will get interesting.