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Mark McDonald

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Sometimes I have random memories from elementary school pop into my head unprompted. I remember one lesson about the five senses, where we were told to go outside and write down three things we saw, heard, touched, and smelled (but not tast...

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The scary, scary singularity

You know how in math you’re not supposed to divide by zero? That’s because dividing by zero produces a singularity, a point where an expression either shoots off towards infinity or just stops making sense. Astrophysicists use the same word...

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Move slow and don’t break things

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

Unintended consequences suck. Yet they happen whether we like it or not.

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Unplugging the hedonic treadmill

Psychologists have noticed that people quickly adapt to improvements in their life and soon start taking them for granted, which is sometimes called the hedonic treadmill. The word “hedonic” comes from Greek and refers to happiness, and the...

2 months ago
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Yes, no, and the secret third option

How do you respond to a loaded question? A classic example is the question “have you stopped beating your wife?” If you answer yes, then it implies that you have a wife and that you used to beat her. If you answer no, then it implies that y...

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