#psychology
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The Mind Has Parts, and You Can Watch Them
The emotion arrives before the thought. The fear is there first; the sentences the mind produces afterward are its explanation for a fear it already has. Most people get this backwards, and the oldest model of the mind I know of gets it right, which is the reason I use it.
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The Biases I Actually Catch Myself In
I used to keep a long list of cognitive biases, the kind that reads like a textbook index. It was useless. The ones below are the handful I actually catch myself in, week after week, when I’m building systems or making calls I can’t easily undo. Short list, real stakes.