The Social Influence Effect “You are the average of the top 5 people you spend the most time with.” This phrase strikes a chord with many of us—even if it’s surely a crude heuristic rather than a scientific law, it carries an intuitive truth. Yet within this simple observation lies a cycle: our social environments […]
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“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.” – Carl Jung Have you ever noticed how your mind contains multitudes? How different aspects of your personality debate, argue, and collaborate when
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Heuristics – Why life is too complex to account for everything I first learned the word ‘heuristic’ from Daniel Kahnemann’s phenomenal book “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” In that book, Kahnemann identifies two different mental modes we operate in – System 1, and System 2. System 1 is a more ancient system in our brain, refined
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Dreams and Perceptions I’m sure you all feel it sometimes. It doesn’t matter how productive you are, how successful you are, or how many to-do list items you’re checking off, you still get that nagging feeling. Am I doing enough? Am I falling behind? Why haven’t I achieved my goals and dreams? Will I ever
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There is an abundance of discussion on fears of AI going rogue, turning on humanity due to some oversight in their programming. The more treacherous reality is that there is no need for it to go rogue. In truth, self-aware Artificial Intelligence as we often imagine it in these apocalyptic scenarios is hardly needed at
The Boardroom Exercise is simple – when faced with a problem, question or dilemma, you conjure a set of ‘personalities’ as ‘board members’ to advise you. This might sound a little schizophrenic, but hear me out. Regardless of the problem, there are likely certain members of the board that could offer an interesting insight, but
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There’s a famous saying in the media studies world, parroted a lot, though when you hear it for the first time, it sounds a little enigmatic. “The medium is the message.” Coined by the philosopher Marshall McLuhan, it definitely sounds a bit like philosopher-talk. When I was in university I took a first year communications
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Any study of the authoritarian nightmares of the 20th century is usually enough to make anyone wary of governments – a glimpse into the excesses of both state power and incompetence, and the vast human toll it can collect. Certainly in the last few years I’ve become more and more wary of any bureaucratic institution
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It is the first of March, 1953, Moscow. A housekeeper cautiously enters the office of the most feared man on earth – lying on the ground, in urine soaked pyjamas, lays Joseph Stalin. It was soon determined that the Vozhd had suffered a stroke – regrettably for the Soviet ruler, he had suffered it while
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Today I want to talk about a little trick to add some extra functionality to Notion. Many of you might have already played with interesting web-hosted embeds – by typing “/embed”, you can embed web-pages into a Notion page, and this has lead to some pretty creative tools already. Things like embedding weather widgets into
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