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May 2023
The Problem with Apologizing
It seems like one of the first and most important social lessons our parents teach us is to say sorry for our mistakes, especially when we have caused…
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I am the problem... Thank God.
Accountability can be tricky. It runs in contrast to our self preserving, ego protecting mechanisms that keep us believing we are the good guy in this…
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So you've been cancelled
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. Marcus Aurelius This is the beginning of a new series of writing that…
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Important announcement
As you may know, this substack account has been used to disseminate the rough writing that would eventually be published into book form. That day has…
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Defence strategy: Beware of survivorship bias
“We have heard only from the survivors. We have no data on those who have been shot down.” Abraham Wald Psychological Defence is a reader-supported…
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April 2023
Defence Strategy: Know the other side
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is…
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Critically Consuming
Excerpt from "Psychological Self Defence"
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Defence Strategy: Keep a strict media diet
“Our capacity for calm ultimately depends on our levels of expectation: if we suppose that most things normally turn out to be slightly disappointing…
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Collective ADHD
Psychological Self Defence
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March 2023
Hate Hoaxes
“For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Distrust all in whom the impulse…
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The Information Wars: Us vs Corporations
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