BrainROT, REELationships, and The DM Verse
Think of social media as making soup. Most users are stirring the pot. Some users are adding ingredients. The pot stirrers effectively keep social media…
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AI Forked Us
In my recent mania of doing too many things at once – training a model on latent human skills, funding applications, and building my startup[1] …
Anatomy of Human Skill
In this very, very short article, I’ve summarized how different types of human skills are decomposed into automatic behavior and purposeful behavior, and how they …
Are you located inside your body?
Even though the concept of “I” emerges from the brain, some psychological discoveries suggest the brain creates a simulation of what it processes and also …
Nunchi (눈치): A Silent skill of reading the room
I first learned the concept of nunchi in a Korean business class. It was introduced as a core Korean business skill of understanding a situation …
Learning techniques for Language Learning as an adult
Having recently gone through Korean language training as a native English speaker, I’ve noticed some basic habits you can adopt to learn a language faster …
Music, Faces, & Imagination make no sense
If you randomly talk with people and ask them absurd non-personal questions about their thoughts, you’d quickly realize that the most common human experiences are …
Why Your Empathy is Dying
Before I compiled concrete reasons why our Empathy levels drop, my instinct said, “Yeah, of course it’ll drop, empathy takes effort, and we don’t like …
Why even the smartest believe misinformation
Over 72% people are exposed to misinformation at least once a month on social media, according to this detailed list of statistics[1]. If you think …
Why you are consistently Unhappy
In the absence of an ongoing life-changing trauma or circumstance, such as death or being a victim of a crime or personal/financial crisis, if most …
5 downsides of being too smart and how to cope with them
Despite the commonly known positives of high intelligence, there are a few negative cliches like super-intelligent people are prone to mental disorders, are impulsive, have anxiety-induced mental …
Emerging Tech Skills not Displaced by AI
4 months ago, IBM replaced 200+ Human resource workers with AI agents[1] that automated many of the workflows. However, this automation also created new tech …
Why split-screen ASMR Reels are so engaging
I watch these shorts on YT with some science being explained, and some Minecraft dude is jumping over these blocks hanging in the sky, and …
The Value of Productivity will be its Beauty
What is the worth of a particular product, deliverable, or skill? The answer will soon depend a lot on the “beauty” inside a product & …
Why we need Wabi-Sabi in a post-AI world
Wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a Japanese concept of accepting beauty in imperfection. These imperfections are very human in nature – rough edges, clumsiness, asymmetry, unpolished finishing, etc. …
For LLMs to be smarter, teach them Psycholinguistics
This is for those who want to create AI applications and conduct R&D to make better LLMs. I will introduce the idea of psycholinguistics in …
You’ve been Thinking with your Body
I will introduce 5 psychological discoveries about how elegantly our body is connected to the mind. Our special brand of cognition (thinking and thinking processes) …