Intuition is sometimes the most reliable judgment we can make, and sometimes the most misleading. Knowing which is which is more important…
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“What would have happened if X had been different?” is one of the most powerful questions in analysis — and one of…
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Steelmanning is the discipline of improving an opposing argument before refuting it. It is exhausting, unpopular, and the single best practice for…
Ethan
Working from foundations rather than analogies produces different conclusions than what received wisdom suggests. Sometimes the conclusions are wrong; sometimes they are…
Ethan
When you state an opposing view, state it in the strongest form you can find. This single discipline improves the quality of…
Ethan
Most of what you know, you know from sources. Evaluating those sources is the underrated skill that determines whether your beliefs track…
Ethan
A mental model is a simplified representation of how something works. Building a library of them is one of the most useful…
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