Archive

All essays are organized by category. Click a category below to browse:

Logical Fallacies

The recurring patterns of bad argument — what they look like, how to identify them, and why they fail. Topics include straw men, ad hominem attacks, false dichotomies, slippery slopes, and circular reasoning.

Cognitive Biases

The systematic errors that human reasoning is prone to. Topics include the sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, anchoring, loss aversion, the availability heuristic, and the framing effect.

Critical Thinking

The practices and tools for thinking more clearly. Topics include mental models, the principle of charity, first-principles reasoning, evaluating sources, and steelmanning arguments.

Decision Making

The formal frameworks for choosing well under uncertainty. Topics include expected value, decision trees, Bayesian updating, pre-mortems, and opportunity cost.