Reasoning
16 posts in Reasoning.
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Rationality – July Book of the Month
Welcome to my monthly book recommendation for July! Every month, I recommend a book that I’ve personally read and find worthwhile enough to recommend to my own readers. In each post, I’ll introduce…
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The First Amendment vs. The First Commandment
The United States is a secular nation, by design. Historically, it is the first modern nation to adopt the principle of the separation of church and state. The year 1791 marks this revolutionary…
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NPR’s Alternate Realities – The Cost of Certainty
NPR, short for National Public Radio, recently released a podcast called Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet. This three-episode series chronicles a ten-thousand dollar bet between a father who…
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The Lucifer Effect – April Book of the Month
Welcome to my monthly book recommendation for April! Every month, I recommend a book that I’ve personally read and find worthwhile enough to recommend to my own readers. In each post, I’ll introduce…
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fermi Estimation
Questions like that were once a staple in the interview process for high paying corporate jobs, though fortunately, this practice has since been discontinued. They were designed to test how adeptly…
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Fictitious Fast Food – A Puzzle from Mental Mosaics
I’d like to share an interesting, intermediate level puzzle I created for my book Mental Mosaics.
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Introducing Hexakai – A Sudoku-Inspired Game of Hexagons
I’m happy to announce that, after weeks of design and development, my new game Hexakai is ready!
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A Curious Greeting – A Puzzle from Mental Mosaics
I’d like to share a small but interesting puzzle from my new book Mental Mosaics: A Unique Collection of 200 Puzzles on Logic, Lies, and the Limitless. This puzzle is called “A Curious Greeting” and…
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From Birthdays to Breakthroughs: Problem Solving with Forward Chaining
During a Slack conversation at work today, my manager asked us what the chances are that any of us have the same birthday. This reminded me of something I read a while ago on “the birthday paradox,”…
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Standing Up in Restaurants: A Social Experiment
Nearly a decade ago, I was taking a course in sociology, the study of human culture and society. For the final project, our professor asked us each to conduct an experiment where we break a social…
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Maps and Models Are Not Really Reality
I recently came across this quote and find it to be quite interesting. It expresses an idea that many of us have considered at one point or another in an short, elegant fashion. I’d like to spend a…
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Method Matters is Live!
I’m happy to announce that my book Method Matters: A Practical Guide to Achieving Your Goals Through Critical Thinking is live on Amazon!
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Being Right Doesn’t Mean You Were Right
Have you ever been in a situation where a friend makes a questionable decision based on poor reasoning, only for that decision to prove to be the correct one? Such situations can be mildly infuriating…
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How to Update Your Beliefs Mathematically
A few months ago, I read Steven Pinker’s book “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.” This book gives a bird’s eye view of the landscape of rationality, dedicating one chapter…
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Why I Wrote “Method Matters”
With my book’s recent launch on Amazon, I’d like to discuss why I decided to write Method Matters and how I initially approached the process of writing this book.
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The Differences Between Logic and Reasoning
When I first began planning the contents of my book Method Matters, I spent a great deal of time weighing the costs and benefits of including a chapter that focuses purely on logic. The terms logic…