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Human Psychology
Someone cuts you off in traffic and you immediately form a judgment about what kind of person they are. Then, a few minutes later, you cut someone else off…
Human Behaviour
For most of human evolutionary history, belonging to a group was not optional. It was survival. Being cast out of the tribe meant facing predators, starvat…
Human Behaviour
Suppose you donate to a charity in the morning. In the afternoon, you face a decision that involves some ethical dimension — helping a colleague, being h…
Human Behaviour
In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch ran a set of experiments so simple they almost seem like a joke. He gathered participants in a room and showed them…
Human Stupidity
In 1961, a group of some of the most intelligent, educated, and experienced people in the United States government met repeatedly to plan the Bay of Pigs i…
Human Behaviour
In 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was attacked outside her apartment in New York City. Newspaper reports at the time claimed that 38 witnesses watched…
Human Stupidity
There is a version of yourself you carry around in your head that is more consistent, more principled, and more logical than the version that actually move…
Human Psychology
In the 1960s, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier were conducting experiments with dogs, running standard classical conditioning procedures involving mild ele…
Human Psychology
You show up to a meeting with a stain on your shirt and spend the next hour acutely aware of it, certain that everyone in the room has noticed and is priva…
Human Behaviour
You probably do not think of yourself as particularly preoccupied with status. Most people do not, which is part of how status anxiety does its work so eff…
Human Psychology
Cognitive dissonance is among the most important ideas in twentieth-century psychology, and it is widely misunderstood. Most people think it just means hol…
Introduction to Claude
Anthropic's founding story is one of the more interesting chapters in recent tech history. In 2021, a group of researchers left OpenAI — one of the best…
Resources
I see FMGs buying 20 books and finishing none. Stop. You only need three types of resources. First, one good review book – choose between FMGE Solutions…
Human Psychology
Almost everyone who procrastinates believes, on some level, that the problem is laziness. That belief is wrong, and it makes procrastination worse. When yo…
Human Behaviour
In 1961, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram ran a series of experiments that changed how we understand human nature. His question was simple and urgent: how…
Human Psychology
Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams coined the term dark triad in 2002 to describe three personality traits that share a core of callousness, manipulation, a…
Human Stupidity
After a plane crash receives weeks of saturation news coverage, airline ticket sales drop significantly. After a shark attack makes the front page, beach a…
Human Behaviour
Bella DePaulo and her colleagues asked college students and community members to keep a diary of all their social interactions and to record any lies they…
Business
Dubai is a relationship-first business culture, which anyone who has tried to close a deal here purely over email quickly discovers. The meeting before the…
Data Science
Python's true power for data science comes from its libraries. NumPy and pandas are two essential ones. NumPy provides support for large, multi-dimensional…
Technology
For decades, no one knew what really happened at Bletchley Park. The men and women who worked there signed the Official Secrets Act and kept their mouths s…
Business
📘 Introduction Article 2 of the Constitution of India is an important provision that allows India to grow by adding new states. It gives the power to t…
JavaScript
Most beginners start with console.log('here') to debug. While that works, the browser DevTools console has much more to offer. console.table() is a lifesav…
Human Psychology
In 1978, Philip Brickman and colleagues published a study that should have been more famous than it became. They compared the happiness levels of lottery w…
Business
Walk through the towers of DIFC or the offices of Dubai Internet City and you will see a pattern — the regional headquarters of companies you know from N…
Global Governance
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) recently decided to expand, inviting countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, and Egypt. On the surface…
Solo Travel
I was terrified the first time I traveled solo in the US. I thought I’d be lonely or unsafe. The truth is, Americans are incredibly chatty. If you sit at…
Regional Security
For two decades, India invested heavily in Afghanistan—building the Parliament, roads, dams. We had a strategic partnership with the old government. Then…
India Travel
Ladakh is not for the faint of heart. It is a high altitude desert in the northernmost part of India, with landscapes that look like they belong on Mars. B…
Business
Choosing the right free zone in Dubai is a decision with long-term consequences, so it deserves proper research. The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, known…
Animals
Penguins are the ultimate survivors of the cold. Their secret is a multi-layered defense. First, they have a dense layer of waterproof feathers that trap a…
Business
Choosing the right free zone in Dubai is a decision with long-term consequences, so it deserves proper research. The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, known…
Philosophy
Before Socrates, there was a group of thinkers who dared to explain the world without recourse to myths. They are the Pre-Socratics, and they asked the fir…
Technology
Blockchain is often described as a digital ledger, but that analogy can be dry. Imagine a shared notebook that everyone in a group can write in, but once a…
Animals
The monarch butterfly is a marvel of the natural world. Every year, millions of these delicate insects travel up to 3,000 miles from North America to a spe…
Technology
Blockchain is often described as a digital ledger, but that analogy can be dry. Imagine a shared notebook that everyone in a group can write in, but once a…
Technology
Deep in the New Mexico desert, a group of scientists changed the world. They didn't know it at the time, not really. They were racing against the Germans…
History
How did it happen? That's the question everyone asks when they study World War II. How did a failed artist and former soldier become the dictator of German…
Action
Kaithi is proof that you don't need a big star or elaborate sets to create an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Lokesh Kanagaraj's film is set over one night, fol…
Sci-Fi Horror
Stranger Things has become a cultural phenomenon since its debut in 2016, and the upcoming fifth season promises to be the most epic chapter yet. The Duffe…
Security
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are cryptographic protocols that let one party prove knowledge of a fact without revealing the fact itself. In web development…
Sci-Fi
3 Body Problem marks the return of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) to television, and it's a stunning achievement in science fiction adaptat…
Side Hustle
Let me be real with you. I'm not some tech guru or YouTuber selling a course. I'm just a regular person who figured out a few ways to let AI do the boring…