Month: February 2024

The way we teach history in school is mostly useless because it focuses more on information and less on insights. One quickly develops an aversion to history when forced to remember a succession of kings and empires and dates to…

In our modern world, it's astonishingly easy to start an outright lie, morph it into a disputed combination of half lies and half truths and then into almost-truth that many people readily believe in. Why does this work? Because the…

Why do so many people work so hard in life but still get nowhere? Our instinct is to think that more hours mean more productivity and progress. Sometimes we apply the same rule to decisions and think that the longer…