Commitment Devices
Can you improve your life by preventing yourself from doing the wrong things? Continue reading Commitment Devices
Rare vs. Common: How We Think About Threat
What’s happening in your circle of friends and family profoundly impacts how you think about risk and threat. Continue reading Rare vs. Common: How We Think About Threat
Future COVID-19 Outcomes
my best guesses on what might happen Continue reading Future COVID-19 Outcomes
The Marketplace of Ideas in 2020
The marketplace of ideas is a nice metaphor, but it has some real problems in 2020, and we’re suffering as a result Continue reading The Marketplace of Ideas in 2020
Meditating With Blue Lodge Symbolism
Discussion of meditation and Freemasonry session led by Brother Chuck Dunning Continue reading Meditating With Blue Lodge Symbolism
The Hype Cycle: How We Adopt New Ideas
The hype cycle helps tell the story of how societies experiment and learn, and what it shows us about people’s psychology Continue reading The Hype Cycle: How We Adopt New Ideas
My Experience with Over-Work and Burnout
How I burned myself out, and what a simple coffee cup can mean. Continue reading My Experience with Over-Work and Burnout
Duality, and the Hermetic Principle of Polarity
Duality arises everywhere. Let’s show how it happens, and what the principle of polarity means and implies. Continue reading Duality, and the Hermetic Principle of Polarity
Social Influence, Fake News, and the COVID-19 Shock
We have disagreements everywhere about basic facts about the world. Everyone is sure of their facts, but no one agrees. Collectively, society seems to have less of a grip on reality. How did we get here? Continue reading Social Influence, Fake News, and the COVID-19 Shock
How People Predict the Future: Amos Tversky
Most of our actions are based on guesses about what will happen in the future and what will make us happy, and so we can change our behavior by understanding and changing how we do that prediction. Continue reading How People Predict the Future: Amos Tversky
How Talking Changes our Beliefs and Minds
When we talk to one another, we aren’t just communicating but we are forming and evolving our own set of beliefs over time. Through practice, or recitation, beliefs take shape, and become more firm. Continue reading How Talking Changes our Beliefs and Minds
V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
exploring an old symbol and what it means for personal development Continue reading V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Attention and Change Blindness
Attention is like a beam of light in a dark room. But it can only focus on a few things, and the rest of the world we may be blind to. Continue reading Attention and Change Blindness
Social Polarization in the Time of Pandemic
Recent COVID-19 situation was born into a polarized social environment in western culture. High levels of distrust are running around, with sentiments of nationalism and tribalism that affect our response to the Coronavirus. Continue reading Social Polarization in the Time of Pandemic
Bringing Yourself: Projection
Whenever we experience a piece of art like a movie or hear a piece of music, there are two forms of meaning – the meaning that the art gives to you, and the meaning that you put into it. Continue reading Bringing Yourself: Projection
Keep Going
A short note for those whose level of concern about COVID-19 is growing, or for anyone who is struggling with anxiety or concern in their lives. We cannot think or feel our way through anxiety and suffering. When they are real, they are felt, and nothing we do can change that, but we can adopt … Continue reading Keep Going
How Hard are you Working?
What can you sustain? And it is helping you grow? Continue reading How Hard are you Working?
Masculine and Feminine
The duality between masculine and feminine drives how we see key aspects of the world. Continue reading Masculine and Feminine
Why Ritual
What is Masonic ritual, how does it work, and why do we do it? Continue reading Why Ritual
