Significance

Humans generally achieve better outcomes when they avoid judging situations by their outward appearances, and instead look beneath the surfaces to search out objective facts and engage in reasoned analysis.

Original Content

• Earned Value Management (EVM) for Mere Mortals
• The Nature of God
• An Appreciation for Building a Case for the Detective Story
• Religious Freedom
• Are Political Parties Doing Us More Harm Than Good?
• The MAGA Bubble Finally Bursts
• Reasons for Belief
• Understanding Human History
• Some Hard-Won Wisdom Concerning Cults
• Have We Passed The Point of Maximum Useful Tech?
• Life is Complicated
• Our Three Human Approaches to Dealing with Problems
• Where, Exactly, Are the Republicans Headed?
• The Decline of the Republican Party - First Gradually and then Suddenly
• The Dangers of Political Nostalgia
• Have Our Political Parties Turned Into Cults?
• Why I Use Markdown (And Why You Should Too)
• Keeping to the Cackle with AI
• The Clown Coup

Quotations

• Belief in Impossible Things
• Belief is the end of Observation
• Capitalism as a Market Society
• The Celestial Teapot
• The Columbia Disaster
• Confusion leads to understanding
• Conventional Views
• Cost of Education
• Critical Thinking Followed by Action
• The Cult of Ignorance
• A Dark Procession
• The Discomfort of Thought
• Easy Solutions
• Education demands a certain daring
• Entertain a Thought
• ESPN president meets Steve Jobs
• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts
• The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance
• Exponential growth in a finite world
• Facts are Facts
• A First-Rate Intelligence
• The Four-Fold Way
• Fuzzy Concept
• Gradually and then suddenly
• Great minds discuss ideas
• Hard Discipline of Reasonableness and Honesty
• Intellectual Debate
• Learning from Experience
• Men Fear Thought
• Merely a Muddle
• Model II Decision-Making
• Model II Values
• Most advertising an insane irrelevance
• Muddled thinking and self-deception
• Nirvana Antipattern
• No Perfect Answer
• Occasions When the Intellect Retires Gracefully
• The Other Side of Complexity
• People are happy to give away their most valuable asset
• The point of modern propaganda
• Politics and the Debasement of Language
• The press is so powerful in its image-making role
• Public Truth
• Seeing the Bigger Picture from Multiple Angles
• Seeking ways to disagree with myself
• Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
• Successful Planning
• Symbolic Language
• Taking a Fence Down
• Ten Commandments for Teachers
• Terrible with raisins in it
• Thinking's a Dizzy Business
• Thinking should be generous and have a good appetite
• This faith in consciousness
• Those Sharp, Scratchy, Harsh, Almost Unpleasant Guys
• To differentiate truth from falsehood
• To prolong our presence on the face of the Earth
• Torturing the Data
• The Underlying Principle of the Problem
• Unintelligible Propositions
• Violent Opposition from Mediocre Minds
• We are Doing our Best
• We are what we pretend to be
• We don't even own suits
• We have wonderful arguments
• We Must Respect the Other Fellow's Religion
• When his salary depends on his not understanding it
• Where the Puck is Going to Be