Bias is the thumb on every scale, including the writer’s own. These articles cover bias: cognitive shortcuts, how they distort writing and reading, and the habits that catch your own thumb in the act.
BiasDaniel Kahneman spent forty years studying how we make decisions, and the short answer is: badly, in predictable ways. This book distills that work into three ideas that matter most for writers: why you underestimate how long projects take, why…
BiasThere are no good clients. Nobody can do this properly. There is no time. These sound like observations about the world and behave like decisions, because once you believe a thing is unavailable you stop looking, and not looking produces…
BiasMost people think prejudice is something other people have. This book takes that apart. Richard Lowe puts his own biases on the table first, then shows that t
BiasEvery signal my nervous system sent said do not sit there. I sat there because there was nowhere else to go. Within a week we were friends.
BiasI am not immune to any of this. The question is never whether you think irrationally. It is whether anybody has died of it.
BiasA Kodak engineer invented the first digital camera in 1975, and management decided nobody would want a camera without film, then spent three decades defending film while the revolution it created destroyed it, bankruptcy in 2012. Nobody there was stupid;…
BiasHalf the country is certain the other half is destroying America, and both halves draw that certainty from information systems engineered to produce it. A political echo chamber is not policy disagreement, that is just democracy; it is a closed…
BiasEvery generation believes it invented the future and that the one before ruined everything, and that certainty is the echo chamber, quieter than the political kind and harder to spot because it feels like common sense, not ideology. You do…
BiasYou did not go looking for a dating ideology; the algorithm found one for you, a breakup video, a fitness reel, a 2 a.m. search for confidence, and soon every creator has a label for what is wrong with you…
BiasThe toughest echo chamber to leave is the one you were born into, because when your beliefs are stitched into your traditions, holidays, and family group chat, questioning them does not feel like curiosity, it feels like betrayal. Saying what…
BiasYou inherit beliefs from your parents and your feed, sure, but also from your ZIP code. Small-town Iowa, downtown Brooklyn, a Silicon Valley condo with kombucha on tap, each quietly installs a different sense of what is obvious and normal.…
BiasIf social media is an echo chamber, online forums are echo tunnels, narrower, deeper, more intense. Where TikTok feeds you what you like, a niche forum wraps your whole identity in the belief that only these people get it. You…
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