“The job of clever people is to ask difficult questions. The job of very clever people is to ask deceptively simple ones.” —The Economist 1 The Economist, September 7, 2013, The man who showed why firms exist[↩]https://buryebilgrill.online/footnotes
Author: Dan Pouliot
A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.
Pseudoscience, Pseudoskepticism and Rejection Bias
Everyone has heard of pseudoscience— unscientific ideas masquerading in the guise of science. But its corollary is less well known. Pseudoskepticism is also unscientific ideas masquerading in the guise of science. Pseudo-skeptics are also known as debunkers but I prefer the former term as it rightly notes that pseudoscience and pseudoskepticism are two sides of… Continue reading Pseudoscience, Pseudoskepticism and Rejection Bias
Are You Motivated More by Love, Fear, or Hatred?
I ran into a loose shower knob recently, and I see how it is like me. Properly functioning shower knobs are easily turned off… just keep turning until it stops. This loose knob did not work that way; I could easily turn it past the off position and it would drip. In order to turn… Continue reading Are You Motivated More by Love, Fear, or Hatred?
Defense Spending
We see other countries spending more on defense so we spend more on defense. Other countries see us spending more on defense so they spend more on defense. When karma is spoken of as a wheel and the only way to stop it is to get off the wheel, this example seems apt. It’s also a good… Continue reading Defense Spending
Edison on Programming Your Sleep
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious. —Thomas Edison
Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer—commonly, though uncertainly 1 attributed to 20th century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr— makes a stark call to thinking responsibly: God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. There is… Continue reading Serenity Prayer