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: 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 …
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 …
AI Psycholinguistics: AI is more Human than we realize.
Either we are not that special and unique, or our AI is far more capable of acquiring human language quirks. Psycholinguistics is about understanding language …
How Learning by Repetition Works: Spacing, Forgetting, and Recall
The moment new information is processed in a brain, 2 paths begin – one toward forgetting it, and one toward remembering it. Both paths act …
The Screenshot Test: Is your content Worthy of Sharing?
I figured this out too late, but glad I did. I created the screenshot test to use on all of my social media content, blog …
Cognitive Biases in AI vs. Humans
Biases in AI are fundamentally different from those in humans. These differences originate because the entire mechanism that creates human biases is different from how …
Smart Consumers Overcome the Framing Effect!
2 options are marketed to you. Choose between Hand Sanitizer A OR Hand Sanitizer B. Did you Choose Sanitizer B? You are not alone. Most …
Focus is about Emotions, Engagement & Skill (attention is task-dependent, not a limited resource)
A temporary loss of focus is expected when you work a lot. And you don’t have to blame your attention span. Blame emotions, engagement, and …
Psychological Quirks of Language: 10 concepts
Almost 100 years ago, the Kiki-Bouba experiment showed that the words we use to describe objects are not chosen randomly. There is some sense in how we …
7 Anti-anxiety Habits to Save You from Procrastination
Procrastination – regretfully delaying tasks you need to complete – is a common problem in anxiety[1], depression[2], ADHD[3], and personality disorders[4], and it worsens with …
Imitation: The Oldest way of Learning, still valid in Education
Monkey see, monkey do. We aren’t just monkeys, but a learning technique they used – learning by observation – still is one of the most …