What’s that old saying, “Careful what you wish for.” In my last post, I took a look at Robert Sapolsky’s 2017 book entitled Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. I concluded my post by stating: “Sapolsky never really mentions the digital age. To say the least, the digital age has the […]
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June 21, 2018
To AI, or not to AI: A Review of Max Tegmark’s book “Life 3.0—Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
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January 26, 2016
Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—I Must Have Been Dreaming
For the last several posts I’ve been pulling bullet points from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. I thought my last post Nuts & Bolts would be my final installment. But an astute reader asked me why I did not pull a bullet point centered on […]
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July 14, 2014
Do We Go Through Anything Anymore?
I just read an interesting article on how to make friends when you’re a grown-up. Pulling from social psychology studies conducted in the 1950s, here are the three key ingredients the article points to as far as making friends: proximity repeated, unplanned interactions a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide […]
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May 27, 2014
Follow-up: Grantmaking and Intuition
I trust everyone had a fun and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. Last week I posted a blog entitled A Few Reflections on Grantmaking and Intuition (05/20/14). Pulling from work by cognitive scientist turned political commentator George Lakoff, I suggested that conservatives tend to use direct cause and effect thinking to address and solve social problems […]
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The Internet and How It Affects Our Ability to Develop, Maintain, and Manipulate Mental Containers (part II)
Welcome to part II of this two part blog series. In part I, I spent considerable time talking about what mental containers are and how they are used. In this post I’d like to take a look at how our mental container skills get set up in the first place. I’m assuming you have read […]
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