Cognitive skills for LLM creativity and metacognition
If you want to improve the ability of your LLM, you can do so by giving it “skills” – text-based, specific instructions to behave in…
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Big Changes break our Perception – blame our Words
As the world changes, we are a little blind to process those changes. We talk about changes to understand them. 2 problems – Hypocognition and …
2 Key Emotions in Learning: Confusion & Curiosity
Highlights Curiosity & Confusion are 2 of the most powerful emotions in education. 🤔Curiosity leads to exploration and filling one’s knowledge gap.😕Confusion leads to deep …
Managing Social Anxiety for Networking Events
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
The Era of Meta-Skills: AI can’t replace these
For eons we have been a civilization that used skills to adapt and adjust. We used skills to alter our environment by building things. One …
AI has a Personality, but it doesn’t mean anything… yet
I just read this preprint[1] in which researchers have adapted a standard personality test (a version of the OCEAN Big 5 model) to assess LLMs’ …
Sciency Guide to Expert-level Memory Skills
At the simplest level, memory can be viewed as a 3-step process – encoding, storage, and retrieval. But you’ll see the story gets a lot …
Your brain on Productivity: Thinking & Doing modes
When we think of productivity, we often think about productivity habits, focus, and getting work done efficiently. There is enough good and bad advice on …
Digital Civics: Threats, Hygiene, Netiquette (Part 2)
We’ll do a visual recap of the first part first. Since we are talking about good behavior, naturally there is bad behavior. These are the …
Digital Civics: Concepts & Human Interaction (Part 1)
We seek people out on a URL instead of IRL pretty much all the time. So we need to know what is considered good behavior, …
Is AI making us smarter Or dumber?… Or artificially smarter? (AI symbiotic crisis)
I’ve been thinking about memes. 2 years ago, I called meme templates, meme phrases, and reel content outsourced cognition – borrowing others’ structured thoughts. Using …
Primes are Guiding your Life in ways you can’t Predict
What if smelling a flower makes you spend a few months’ worth of income on a vacation? That could just be happening right now. Welcome …
Toxic Relationship with Money? Explore scripts, personality, and biases
Highlights We have a relationship with money based on “money scripts”. Money Scripts are our beliefs about money. Scripts are akin to personal rules of …
5 Deep Personality Traits, beyond introverts/extroverts
Learning your personality type is probably the most basic way to conceptualize yourself. And, considering we are meaning & pattern-seeking creatures, understanding personality becomes a …
Psychology myths infest the Business World, these are the risks
Some psychology myths have gained immortal fact status in the business world. The reason for this is that misinformation appears believable, the myths are often …
Emotion Activation at Work: 2 Frameworks for anti-autopilot work
I’ll introduce 2 frameworks to assess how people respond to their work demands. The first one is by the notable Positive Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and …
Learning Vs. Memory in School Education
From a theoretical POV, our memory is the base component of measurable learning. Read on to explore learning and memory in an educational context. This …