In my last two entries on this site, I discussed biases and heuristics. I wrote about them separately because I had plenty to say about both, which, for anyone who knows me, is not a surprise. What I ...

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. –John Steinbeck on letting go of unwanted anchors Heuristics are mental shortcuts that allow people to make ...

Cognitive shortcuts (or heuristics) and their consequent psychological and behavioural biases can profoundly affect and shape the judgments and decisions we make in our everyday and professional lives ...

It is, has always been, and will forever be a messy world out there. We are all imperfect, and human nature does not change. We enter this world preprogramed with ...

While humans often consider themselves superior to other beings on Earth, this status in the animal kingdom has its drawbacks. Our capacity for complex thought also means we are uniquely skilled at ...

In a world where things move a mile a minute, our brains are often tasked with processing large amounts of information within limited windows of time. When work requires that we multitask, under ...

Human behavior is, well, human. Much of people's behavior represents automatic responses to their environment without awareness why they’re responding this way. Many of these automatic responses are ...