The Mind Collection Newsletter

#227: Normalisation of Deviance, Gambler’s Fallacy of Crime & Routine Activity Approach

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Crime & Probability

Dec 3

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November 2025

#226: Falkland’s Law, Naval's Compass & the Siege of Zhao

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Practical Decision-Making

Nov 26

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#225: Gretchen Question, Three Lives Theory & Congruence

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Building Trust

Nov 19

3

#224: Law of Names, Fear Setting & the Law of Lightness

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Conquering Fear

Nov 12

7

#223: Stopping Decicions, This Will Do & the Illusion of Choice

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Making Purchase Decisions

Nov 5

7

October 2025

#222: Reverse Benchmarking, Value of Uselessness & Signalling Through Inefficiency

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Marketing Secrets

Oct 29

6

#221: Hitchens' Razor, Evidence of Absence & the Method of Absolute Evidence

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Evidence and Its Absence

Oct 22

10

#220: Mood-Congruent Memory, Motivated False Memory & the Two-Minute Rule

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Man v Memory

Oct 15

7

#219: Dancing with Uncertainty, the Fallacy of Equal Knowledge & the Ignorance Paradox

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Dealing with Ignorance

Oct 8

7

#218: Idiot Plot, (Contractual) Genre Blindness & the Hardest Job

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Writing Fails

Oct 1

7

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September 2025

#217: Absence of Evidence, Negativity Bias & Russell's Teapot

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Lacking Evidence

Sep 24

6

#216: Miracle Razor, Doublethink & Cognitive Dissonance

3 Ideas in 2 Minutes on Cognitive Dissonance

Sep 17

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