Thinking About Thinking
Indy Neogy and
Thinking About Thinking
There is, unfortunately no good word for “skill at solving poorly defined problems.” Insight, creativity, agency, self-knowledge—they’re all part of it, but not all of it. Wisdom comes the closest, but it suggests a certain fustiness and grandeur, and poorly defined problems aren’t just dramatic questions like “how do you live a good life”; they're... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?
Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Yasemin Saplakogluquantamagazine.org
("JP") and
Beautifully Biased Brains
Quirks and discoveries about our brains, how we perceive intelligence, and why we can't seem to ever fully understand it.
Charlie Gedeon and • 13 cards
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix 🕊 • carry yourself lightly
Alara and
don’t think your way into doing, do your way into thinking
Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:
... See moreefficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because invention, real invention, not incremental improvement, incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral
sari and
But that’s physics, and physics deals with the natural. Engineering, on the other hand, is a science of the artificial , and it would be downright strange to insist that engineering artifacts have no purpose or telos.
Maxim Raginsky • Engineers as philosophers, Part 3
Important point about engineering, but also something I regularly raise about how economics misunderstands itself
Can you rationalize why a piece of art moves you? Why you have chemistry with one person over another? Why you like one piece of software more than another that does the same thing? Our decisions are not driven by logic, they are driven by emotion.
Sari Azout • Things I'm thinking about
Homo Prospectus is the best view on this - emotions are how we use the totality of our past and present thinking to make judgements.
