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Edition #015 - 2022 Begins
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2022 Is HereWe all hope that 2022 is better than 2021, but so far in lots of places it isn't looking like a good start. On a personal note, Christmas did not turn out as expected with some family visits cancelled because of virus related issues. However, Edition #015 is
Edition #014 - Year End
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Closing 2021This will be the last edition of 2021. It's been a difficult year for lots of people and like many I'm hoping to squeeze in some holiday time with family before what may be a new round of restrictions. Edition #015 will come out on the 13th of January.
Edition #013 - Risk-O-micron
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The O-micron MomentSide note: I only learned recently that the two Greek letters Omicron and Omega can be thought of in relation to the words micron and mega. This piece by the author Steven Johnson along with the reporting of a possibly important new strain of the coronavirus (Omicron) got
Edition #012 - Webs and Lines
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Writing and the Web in the HeadThese thoughts were prompted by this piece by Austin Kleon. It is very much not the whole story of "mind maps" and similar techniques - but surveying that landscape is something for another day. However, as noted in Edition #011, one of the lower
Edition #011 - Layers and Links
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Layers of ThinkingIn Edition #010 I mentioned Bülent Duagi's post about 18 types of thinking on LinkedIn and said that I would take it and my own earlier post about mind states and try to make some sense out of all these different terms. Of course, it has been predictably
Edition #010 - Building Blocks
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As we reach the 10th edition, I'd love to hear from you if there are topics you would like to see covered in future. Find me on Twitter or reply to this email! System 1 and System 2 ReduxHaving looked at the basics of System 1 and 2 last time,
Edition #009 - System 1 & 2
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In this Edition, we return to some of the directions prompted by the book on Reasoning (Edition #006) with a look at Kahneman's System One and System Two. Our link this week is about being along with your thoughts and the effort of thinking. Finally we wrap up with a
Edition #008 - More fatigue, more books
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More on Decision FatigueThe short piece in Edition #007 prompted a record number of responses from readers. (We'll skate by the fact the correlation with a record number of subscribers, causation is a topic for another day.) Madelyn Postman of sustainability consultancy Grain wrote in to recommend this podcast: Death,
