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Negative Liberty vs. Positive Liberty and the Road to Hell
All sides in our split society claim to want freedom, but how can that be? We must look at the difference between positive liberty and negative liberty.
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Scott

August 2021

Use Disconfirming Evidence to Make Your Decisions Suck Less
In this article, I explain disconfirming evidence., give a disconfirming evidence example, and discuss disconfirming evidence and the scientific method.
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Scott

July 2021

Confirmation Bias: Why your decisions suck and you fight with your friends
Confirmation bias causes intelligent people to make terrible decisions, leading to divisiveness and damaged relationships.
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Scott

June 2021

How False Patterns Cause You to Make Bad Decisions
Our ability to see connections between things is key to our understanding of the world. But, we can find false patterns that distort our view of the…
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Scott

July 2020

June 2020

How the Wright Brothers can make you a success
Because others have more or better opportunities doesn't mean you're without your own opportunities. Success requires that you take advantage of what…
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Scott

May 2020

You Need to Know Life's Dirty Little Secret
Here’s a little secret. It’s something we used to know and understand. But as the entitlement culture's virus has spread, we’ve forgotten it. The secret…
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Scott
Do You Know Why Moral Decisions Aren't the Best?
Making decisions based on morals seems like the right thing to do. But doing so often makes us miss the unintended consequences and externalities we…
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Scott
The goal of everything - and why you can’t change it
Humans want to impose their will on the world around them. Sometimes, it works. We've blasted tunnels through mountains to make travel easier. We've…
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Scott

April 2020

Survivorship Bias: Dropping Out of School Won't Make You a Billionaire. I Don't Care Who Did It.
We love stories of people who bucked conventional wisdom to achieve incredible success. But not accounting for the failures in these stories is an error…
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Scott

March 2020

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