Modern Wisdom

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.

Expect to learn how bad things can sometimes feel better than good things, why people die on the hill of opinions they've only just begun believing, why intelligence plus ideology is a nightmare, how comedy can be a troll's last line of defence, the biggest lesson I learned from Joe Rogan, why regret minimisation should be a priority, why authoritarians lose sight of rationality and much more...

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Check out Gurwinder's Substack - https://gurwinder.substack.com/

Follow Gurwinder on Twitter - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal

Gurwinder's new MegaThread - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1545510413982474253 

Adam Mastroianni's post - https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/underrated-ideas-in-psychology 

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