Translating Behavioral Economics into Real Decisions
Apply behavioral economics: recognize cognitive biases like anchoring and loss aversion, understand status quo bias, and design choices accounting for them.
Putting Information Theory to Work
Apply information theory: Entropy measures surprise and uncertainty. High entropy is informative, low is predictable. Remove redundancy, prioritize signal.
Network Theory Applied to Real Relationships
Apply network theory: weak ties connect different clusters bringing novel information. Strong ties provide reliable support and trust between close friends.
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Using Decision Theory in Everyday Choices
Apply decision theory: list all options, define outcomes for each, assign probabilities to outcomes, calculate expected values, then choose highest value.
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The Curse of Knowledge: Why Smart People Explain Things Poorly
Understand the curse of knowledge bias and why experts often struggle to explain concepts to beginners effectively.
Concepts
How to Communicate Complex Ideas to Any Audience
Learn practical techniques for explaining complex concepts clearly to audiences with different levels of expertise.
Framing Effects: How Presentation Changes Meaning
Explore how framing effects influence interpretation and why the same information presented differently leads to different conclusions.
Feedback Loops in Communication Explained
Learn how feedback loops work in communication systems and why they're essential for effective understanding.
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Translating Behavioral Economics into Real Decisions
Apply behavioral economics: recognize cognitive biases like anchoring and loss aversion, understand status quo bias, and design choices accounting for them.
Putting Information Theory to Work
Apply information theory: Entropy measures surprise and uncertainty. High entropy is informative, low is predictable. Remove redundancy, prioritize signal.
Network Theory Applied to Real Relationships
Apply network theory: weak ties connect different clusters bringing novel information. Strong ties provide reliable support and trust between close friends.
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Using Decision Theory in Everyday Choices
Apply decision theory: list all options, define outcomes for each, assign probabilities to outcomes, calculate expected values, then choose highest value.
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Automation Ideas for Knowledge Workers
Practical automation ideas to eliminate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and reclaim time for high-value knowledge work.
Ideas
Micro-SaaS Ideas with Clear Niches
Focused micro-SaaS concepts serving specific niches profitably—small enough to build solo but valuable enough to sustain a business.
Evergreen Content Strategy Ideas
Build content assets that compound value over time—topics, formats, and distribution strategies for long-term traffic and authority.
Online Business Models Explained
Understand the core online business models—SaaS, marketplace, content, e-commerce, and services—with their economics, challenges, and success patterns.
Technology
AI Ethics and Societal Impact
Navigate AI's ethical challenges—from bias and fairness to job displacement, exploring responsible development and societal implications of widespread AI adoption.
Automation Design Principles: Building Reliable and Maintainable Workflows
Core principles for designing automation workflows: reliability, maintainability, error handling, documentation, and best practices for 2026.
Large Language Models Explained
Demystify large language models like GPT—exploring how they work, capabilities, limitations, and practical implications for knowledge work and society.
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AI Limitations and Failure Modes
Understand when AI fails—exploring fundamental limitations, common failure patterns, adversarial examples, and why AI isn't magic but statistical pattern matching.
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Career Capital Explained
Understand career capital—the skills, credentials, relationships, and reputation that create career options and advancement opportunities over time.
Work & Skills
Async Communication Explained
Master asynchronous communication—when to use async vs sync, best practices for email and documentation, managing distributed teams, and building effective async-first culture.
Giving Feedback Effectively
Master the art of workplace feedback—delivering critical feedback constructively, receiving feedback well, feedback timing and frequency, and building a feedback culture that drives performance.
Root Cause Analysis Explained: Getting to Underlying Problems
Learn root cause analysis techniques for professional problem-solving—moving past symptoms to identify and fix underlying causes that prevent problem recurrence.
Culture
Parasocial Relationships Explained
Understand parasocial relationships—one-sided connections between audiences and creators, their psychology, benefits, and potential harms.
How Internet Culture Forms
Explore how internet culture emerges—from shared norms to inside jokes, understanding the formation of online communities and digital identity.
Cultural Dimensions Explained
Understand Hofstede's cultural dimensions framework—power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and other dimensions that explain cultural variation.
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Virtue Ethics Explained
Understand virtue ethics—focusing on character over rules, how virtues develop through practice, and why Aristotle's framework remains relevant.
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Using Decision Theory in Everyday Choices
Apply decision theory: list all options, define outcomes for each, assign probabilities to outcomes, calculate expected values, then choose highest value.
Translating Behavioral Economics into Real Decisions
Apply behavioral economics: recognize cognitive biases like anchoring and loss aversion, understand status quo bias, and design choices accounting for them.
Putting Information Theory to Work
Apply information theory: Entropy measures surprise and uncertainty. High entropy is informative, low is predictable. Remove redundancy, prioritize signal.
Network Theory Applied to Real Relationships
Apply network theory: weak ties connect different clusters bringing novel information. Strong ties provide reliable support and trust between close friends.
Making Mental Models Actionable
Make mental models actionable: Test predictions against reality, use them to guide decisions, identify blind spots, and refine through feedback loops.
Making Learning Theory Work in Practice
Apply learning science: Spaced repetition at increasing intervals, retrieval practice testing yourself before reviewing, interleaving topics, elaboration.
From Theory to Practice: Systems Thinking
Apply systems thinking: Map components and connections, identify feedback loops for growth/stability, find leverage points, test interventions, track effects.
From Game Theory to Negotiation Practice
Apply game theory: identify game type as zero-sum or positive-sum cooperation, map payoffs for each party, and find Nash equilibrium outcomes.
Applying Communication Theory to Real Interactions
Apply communication theory: senders encode messages, receivers decode them with different interpretations. Anticipate misunderstandings by checking meaning.
Machine Learning Model Training Explained
ML training: Initialize model with random weights, forward pass makes predictions, calculate loss measuring error, backpropagation updates weights, repeat.
How Search Engines Index and Rank Content
Search engines crawl pages by following links, index content by extracting text and metadata, then rank results using algorithms and relevance signals.
How Load Balancers Distribute Traffic
Load balancers distribute incoming requests across servers using algorithms like round robin for fairness and least connections for optimal routing.
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The Curse of Knowledge: Why Smart People Explain Things Poorly
Understand the curse of knowledge bias and why experts often struggle to explain concepts to beginners effectively.
How to Communicate Complex Ideas to Any Audience
Learn practical techniques for explaining complex concepts clearly to audiences with different levels of expertise.
Framing Effects: How Presentation Changes Meaning
Explore how framing effects influence interpretation and why the same information presented differently leads to different conclusions.
Feedback Loops in Communication Explained
Learn how feedback loops work in communication systems and why they're essential for effective understanding.
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Automation Ideas for Knowledge Workers
Practical automation ideas to eliminate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and reclaim time for high-value knowledge work.
Micro-SaaS Ideas with Clear Niches
Focused micro-SaaS concepts serving specific niches profitably—small enough to build solo but valuable enough to sustain a business.
Evergreen Content Strategy Ideas
Build content assets that compound value over time—topics, formats, and distribution strategies for long-term traffic and authority.
Online Business Models Explained
Understand the core online business models—SaaS, marketplace, content, e-commerce, and services—with their economics, challenges, and success patterns.
Technology
AI Limitations and Failure Modes
Understand when AI fails—exploring fundamental limitations, common failure patterns, adversarial examples, and why AI isn't magic but statistical pattern matching.
AI Ethics and Societal Impact
Navigate AI's ethical challenges—from bias and fairness to job displacement, exploring responsible development and societal implications of widespread AI adoption.
Automation Design Principles: Building Reliable and Maintainable Workflows
Core principles for designing automation workflows: reliability, maintainability, error handling, documentation, and best practices for 2026.
Large Language Models Explained
Demystify large language models like GPT—exploring how they work, capabilities, limitations, and practical implications for knowledge work and society.
Work & Skills
Career Capital Explained
Understand career capital—the skills, credentials, relationships, and reputation that create career options and advancement opportunities over time.
Async Communication Explained
Master asynchronous communication—when to use async vs sync, best practices for email and documentation, managing distributed teams, and building effective async-first culture.
Giving Feedback Effectively
Master the art of workplace feedback—delivering critical feedback constructively, receiving feedback well, feedback timing and frequency, and building a feedback culture that drives performance.
Root Cause Analysis Explained: Getting to Underlying Problems
Learn root cause analysis techniques for professional problem-solving—moving past symptoms to identify and fix underlying causes that prevent problem recurrence.