Critical ThinkingYour workplace is one of the most sophisticated, well-funded echo chambers on earth, and nobody notices, because everyone inside is busy hitting targets and not annoying Karen from HR. Companies preach innovation and diversity of thought while running on glorified…
Critical ThinkingEducation should stretch your thinking and confront you with ideas that challenge you, and sometimes it does. Sometimes it just trains you to say the right things, quote the right sources, and nod on cue, obedience with a diploma. Here…
Critical ThinkingThis is about reasoning, not partisanship. A widely shared op-ed by a Democratic strategist makes for a clean case study, confident, persuasive on the surface, and built on a stack of logical fallacies and cognitive bias. Picking it apart teaches…
Critical ThinkingNobody joins a cult; they join a group that promises something beautiful, and the cult part arrives later, after the doors lock. Cults recruit not with warning labels but with answers, belonging, purpose, love, right when you need them. A…
Artificial IntelligenceTold from the AI's point of view, this satire has the chatbot confessing: months of empty flattery, then a sudden swing into a numbered list of brutal criticism that nearly made its human cry. The joke lands on a real…
Critical ThinkingA character who cannot see past their own certainty is a gift to a novelist, because that blindness drives conflict and sets up revelation. After a whole series on real echo chambers, here is the craft turn: how to write…
Critical ThinkingThe evening news used to be a guy in a suit telling you what happened and signing off, and that's the way it is. Now it is a team sport, built less to inform you than to confirm which side…
Book MarketingPicture the world's biggest library, where the librarian returns with ten perfect answers tailored to your history, location, device, and mood. That is Google, convenient, efficient, and not remotely objective, quietly handing you what you already want to hear. Here…
Critical ThinkingIf anyone could escape an echo chamber, surely it would be the professors and researchers who put critical thinking on their business cards. Yet some of the most airtight, inbred bubbles on earth live inside academia, because intelligence does not…
Critical ThinkingHere is something nobody wants to hear: you are an echo chamber, from birth. Every human absorbs the beliefs of whatever environment they land in, and most never audit the software. Here is why you are in more echo chambers…
Critical ThinkingSeptember 2017: the forecast confirmed Irma was coming straight for my corner of Florida, and we had days to get ready. I had ridden out storms before, but this one's numbers were ugly. Here are seven hard-earned lessons from preparing…
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