Or how to procrastinate.

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👤 People

Brilliant lives.

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Oliver Sacks

Philo Farnsworth

John Forbes Nash Jr. - Wikipedia

Chris Burden

Mariana Mazzucato

Reza Aslan

Sol LeWitt

Frank Abagnale

Charles Bronson (prisoner)

Fernando Pessoa

🧠 Psychology

How the mind works.

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Psychological pricing

Hedonic treadmill

Psychological resilience

Stanford prison experiment

Fear of missing out

Cognitive miser

Broken windows theory

Peter principle

Delayed gratification

Hindsight bias

🦠 Diseases

Weird diseases.

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Hypersexuality

Urbach-Wiethe disease

Senescence

Ageing

Alzheimer's disease

Major depressive disorder

Somatoparaphrenia

Persistent genital arousal disorder

📋 Lists

Down into the rabbit hole.

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List of fallacies

List of unusual deaths

List of cognitive biases

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

List of paradoxes

Lists of diseases

List of Ig Nobel Prize winners

List of video games considered the best

📈 Economy

It's the economy stupid.

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Tragedy of the commons

Pareto principle

Economic model

High-frequency trading

Baumol's cost disease

Schools of economic thought

Bounded rationality

🤯 Effects

Cognitive biases and counter-intuitive effects.

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Cobra effect

Hawthorne effect

Denomination effect

Ringelmann effect

Overjustification effect

Serial-position effect

Streisand effect

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