Tag: Mental Models
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Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age
We’re obsessed with simplicity. It’s alluring and inflammatory all at once. We want to simplify everything, and we want to draw the line on when something is too simple. “Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Though there is no confirmed source, the quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein. It’s about…
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Embracing the AI Mindshift: From Google to ChatGPT
📰 This post originally appeared on the Pragmatics Studio blog. Whether we like it or not, thinking will happen through AI, as it happens today through Google. We will ask language models how to deal with a broken heart the way we started doing that with the search giant. Generate recipes. Deal with grief. Diagnose…
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Holding my breath
Sometimes when I’m working, I realize that I’ve been holding my breath. If you’ve never noticed yourself doing that, then I beg you to pay attention to it just for today. Why? A man wearing a hoodie runs in with a cardboard sign that reads ‘Mindfulness is good for productivity. I punch that man hard…
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Learning how to structure a virtual class
My online lecture on Creativity, Innovation, and Critical Thinking has more than 90 students enrolled this semester. Even before COVID-19, I was constantly searching for new ways to keep the class experiential for such a large group of students. When the university announced last year that the course would be online, I had to revise…
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Let go of anchoring bias to build more effective products
Last week, I tried a new video conferencing tool called Around created by a startup with the same name. Having recently raised $15 million in funding, their big claim is that their product can eliminate Zoom fatigue, the newly coined term for exhaustion caused by too much time spent on video calls. Screenshot of around.co…