Category: Awakening
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Mind Readings: Preventing Dunning Kruger Effect
The Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who have relatively low ability or expertise in a particular domain tend to overestimate their knowledge or ability. This can lead to disastrous consequences if left unchecked. One way to reduce the likelihood of this happening is to use the specificity test: when faced with…
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You Ask, I Answer: What is Identity Marketing?
Hannah asks, “What is identity marketing?” Identity marketing is the use of consumers’ identities for marketing purposes. This can be done by creating identities that customers adopt, or by bonding brands to customers’ existing identities. Identity marketing can be beneficial for customer retention, but it can also be detrimental by promoting polarization and inflexibility. Can’t…
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You Ask, I Answer: Helping People Remember When You’re Speaking?
Bobby asks, “How do I help people remember what I’m presenting when I’m speaking?” To help people remember what you’re presenting, try to reduce cognitive load as much as possible. This means keeping your slides clean and simple, providing captions, and not overwhelming your audience with too much information at once. You can also try…
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Mind Readings: What Does Intermediate Mean?
In a discussion recently about conference sessions, I raised the challenging question: what does intermediate even mean? Chances are it’s not an especially helpful expression. Here’s what we can do better. Intermediate means different things to different people, so event planners and speakers should be more specific when describing conference sessions. If you’re unsure if…
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Mind Readings: Peer Pressure
At a recent event I was at, I spoke to someone who had some very interesting things to say about why they don’t wear a mask. Summary: In today’s episode, the speaker is talking about peer pressure. He was at an event recently, where he was wearing a mask, and his colleague said that he…
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Mind Readings: Swimming in Idiotic Conspiracies
The single biggest intellectual mistake of the last 50 years is the assumption that all opinions and points of view are valid and deserve attention. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain…
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Mind Readings: What Is Appropriate
Lots of posts about what’s appropriate in the workplace/on LinkedIn/etc. What’s appropriate? The answer varies wildly, is always contextual, and generally revolves around not causing harm. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may…
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Mind Readings: Stay In Your Lane
From time to time as I create content, I’ll get feedback from people – usually on political topics – advising me in fairly coarse language to “stay in your lane”. Here’s why this is universally bad advice. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here.…
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Mind Readings: Heartbeats
When you feel disconnected, it’s time to find a heartbeat. Here’s how. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for watching the video. Christopher Penn 0:15…
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What Subscription Plan Are You On?
Taxes pay for stuff. Think of taxes like a subscription. You pay more, but you get more in your subscription to Massachusetts™ than, say, you get in a New Hampshire™ subscription. It’s like comparing Netflix with Peacock. You pay less for Peacock but… you get a lot less in that subscription. I got a mailer…
