In an isolated system, the degree of disorder can only increase over time. A family builds a beautiful, well-maintained house (a state...

What if the secret to achieving success wasn’t about crafting the perfect plan, but about systematically sidestepping every possible way...

In many domains, improvement comes not from seeking the good, but from eliminating the bad. You draft a long, complicated email full of...

Second-order thinking is deep and complex. It considers the longer-term consequences of the initial effects. A manager at an ice cream...

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, carelessness, or incompetence. A colleague from another...

Among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. You can't find your house...

If a belief cannot be disproven by any conceivable evidence, it is not a scientific claim but an article of faith. Your friend claims a...

Models are useful abstractions, but they are always incomplete and can lead to errors if we forget they are not reality. You are...