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Do You Know This?
Do you know this choke?
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Andrew Smith
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Fast, Deep, Wide
I’ve been thinking even more about thinking.
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Andrew Smith
7
Cognitive Atrophy 2025
Quick—get out a pencil and paper, and tell me what 21,272,032 divided by 4 is?
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Andrew Smith
11
Operating System
Did you know that guilt and shame aren’t really the same thing?
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Andrew Smith
2
Let the Thoughts Wrestle!
Holding two contradictory ideas at once in your mind is a bit like the beginning of a wrestling match.
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Andrew Smith
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An Unpleasant Condition
Voltaire had a way with words.
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Andrew Smith
17
Interrupted!
There I was, walking and talking—something becoming more and more normal for me these days.
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Andrew Smith
2
A Rising Tide?
Throughout the 20th century, worldwide IQ scores went up.
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Andrew Smith
18
The Architecture and the Energy
I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking lately.
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Andrew Smith
10
File Drawer Problem
Human knowledge has continued to increase over time, with the last few decades of new discoveries picking up intensity and taking on a life all their…
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Andrew Smith
10
Differently Dumber
A friend once told me I was smarter than some other friend we both knew.
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Andrew Smith
18
Tired Words
Peanut butter.
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Andrew Smith
12
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