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Survivorship bias is easy to spot in other people’s arguments and remarkably hard to spot in your own. A book profiles a group of spectacularly successful founders and notices that most of them took enormous risks. A reader closes the…
역사에서 배운다는 말을 우리는 거의 의심 없이 씁니다. 과거를 충분히 들여다보면 반복되는 패턴이 보이고, 그 패턴을 알면 다음에 무엇이 올지 짐작할 수 있다는 믿음이죠. 이 믿음을 이론으로 밀어붙인 것이 역사주의입니다. 그리고 칼 포퍼는 역사주의가 자료를 얼마나 모으든 성립할 수 없다고…
회사가 흔들리기 시작한 지 2년째 되던 날, 한 동료가 말했습니다. “나는 그때부터 이상하다고 느꼈어.” 저는 고개를 끄덕였습니다. 저도 그랬으니까요. 그런데 며칠 뒤 우연히 2년 전 메모를 열어봤습니다. 거기엔 이렇게 적혀 있었습니다. “기대 반, 불안 반. 일단 남는 쪽으로.” 제가 거짓말을…
Here’s a thought experiment that should unsettle anyone who cares about both effective policy and democratic governance. Imagine a government program that measurably saves lives, reduces healthcare costs, and increases retirement savings. Sounds like a policy dream, right? Now imagine…
Imagine you’re walking down an unfamiliar street, hungry, looking for a place to eat. You spot two restaurants side by side. One is packed — people laughing, waiters rushing between tables, a line forming at the door. The other is…
Here’s the uncomfortable truth that most discussions about online extremism get wrong: the content isn’t the problem. We’ve spent a decade debating whether to deplatform, demonetize, or downrank extremist content — and radicalization keeps happening. Not because we haven’t removed…
당신이 마지막으로 중요한 실패를 경험했을 때를 떠올려 보세요. 프로젝트가 무너졌을 때, 관계가 끝났을 때, 확신했던 판단이 틀렸을 때. 그 순간 당신의 마음은 무엇을 했습니까? 아마도 “외부 환경이 문제였어,” “타이밍이 안 맞았을 뿐이야,” “충분한 정보가 없었으니까”라는 설명을 재빠르게 생산했을 겁니다. 솔직히…
You switched to LED bulbs. You feel good — you’re saving energy, cutting your electricity bill, doing your part for the planet. But then something strange happens. Your electricity bill barely changes. You left the lights on more often (they’re…
You woke up at 5 AM. You meditated for ten minutes, tracked your sleep score, journaled three pages, and opened a productivity app before your first cup of coffee. You did all of this voluntarily. Nobody forced you. Nobody threatened…
Here’s a fact that might ruin your next “I’m so busy” humble-brag: you probably have more free time than your grandparents did. Time-use surveys across developed nations show that discretionary leisure hours have actually increased since the 1960s. And yet,…
She was the best engineer on the team. Three years of flawless performance reviews. Mentored every new hire. Stayed late when deadlines got tight — not because anyone asked, but because she believed it mattered. Then, on a Tuesday morning,…
On March 13, 1964, a 28-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed outside her apartment building in Queens, New York. According to the New York Times, 38 neighbors watched from their windows. Nobody called the police. Nobody came down to…
In 1932, a perfectly healthy bank in the United States collapsed overnight. Not because of bad investments. Not because of fraud. It died because of a rumor. Depositors heard the bank was failing, panicked, and rushed to withdraw their savings.…
You sit down to do the hard thing. The report, the code, the essay — whatever requires your full brain. You close a few tabs, silence your phone, take a breath, and tell yourself: focus. It works for eleven minutes.…
Your partner comes home in a terrible mood. Within minutes, you’re irritable too — even though your day was fine. At a family dinner, your mother makes a comment about your career, and suddenly you’re 14 again, defensive and desperate…
You walk into the office on Monday morning. Before you even sit down, a colleague unloads about their terrible weekend. By lunch, your manager’s anxiety about the quarterly review has somehow become your anxiety. By evening, you’re emotionally spent —…
Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Let your mind go blank. That’s what most people picture when they hear the word “meditation.” And that picture is almost entirely wrong. The scientific reality is far more interesting — and far…
Imagine someone whispers the word “spider” in your ear. No spider is present. No eight-legged creature is crawling anywhere near you. Yet your skin prickles, your heart rate ticks upward, and you feel a faint wave of disgust — all…
Imagine two managers at the same company, facing the same ethical dilemma: a chance to fudge the quarterly numbers just enough to hit the bonus threshold. One refuses outright. The other does it without losing sleep. What’s the difference? It’s…
Have you ever walked into a meeting room and immediately felt your stomach tighten — before anyone said a word? Or noticed that after lunch with an upbeat friend, you felt inexplicably lighter for the rest of the day? These…