Archive - The Mind Collection Newsletter

#249: Pendulum Bias, Myside Bias & Normalcy Bias

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Even More Biases

10 hrs ago

#248: Red Sneakers Effect, Deviance Regulation Theory & WAIT & WAIST

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Standing Out

May 13

#247: Strategic Inaction, Satisficing & the Decision Ownership Principle

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Decision-Making Advice

May 6

April 2026

#246: Permission Tunnel, Permission Structure & the Forgiveness/Permission Principle

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Getting Permission

Apr 29

#245: Law of Contagion, Moral Contagion & Contagion of Virtue

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Contagious Morality

Apr 22

#244: Is-a-Has-a-Error, Reification & Ultimate Attribution Error

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Thinking Errors

Apr 15

#243: Strategic Ignorance, Plausible Deniability & Sanity Through Ignorance

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on the Art of Not Knowing

Apr 8

#242: Fortune Cookie Fallacy, Scheinriese & Placebo Buttons

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Illusions of the Mind

Apr 1

March 2026

#241: Time Inconsistency, Thought-Terminating Clichés & Interpretative Dominance

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on the Betraying Mind

Mar 25

#240: Halo Effect, Horn Effect & the Contrast Effect

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Judgement Biases (The story of Ben)

Mar 18

#239: Belief Perseverance, Misapplied Trial and Error & Finding the Edge

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Argument vs. Conviction

Mar 11

#238: Fire-Fighting Loop, Temporal Optimism Bias & Zugzwang

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Compelled Action

Mar 4

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